Bhai Dooj 2027

Bhai Dooj 2027 falls on Sunday, 31 October 2027. The day is Kartika Shukla Dwitiya, and the tithi is tested at aparahna — the fourth fifth of the daylight.

The date, and how it was decided

Bhai Dooj 2027 falls on Sunday, 31 October 2027.

The day is Kartika Shukla Dwitiya. The tithi alone does not fix the date: a tithi rarely fills a civil day, so a festival names the period its tithi has to be running in. For Bhai Dooj that period is aparahna, the fourth fifth of the daylight. This is the window the observance is kept in.

Aparahna in your city

This is the window the observance is kept in. It is set by the Sun at your own horizon, so it is not the same time across the country — the spread below is about forty minutes end to end.

This is the whole of aparahna, computed as the fourth fifth of the daylight at that city's own sunrise and sunset. Almanacs often also print a narrower muhurat inside it, chosen for a fixed sign rising rather than for the tithi; if you have seen a shorter window elsewhere, that is what it was, and it sits inside this one.

Other dates in 2027

Maha Shivaratri · Holika Dahan · Ugadi and Gudi Padwa · Ganesh Chaturthi · Sharad Navratri · Vijayadashami · Dhanteras · Naraka Chaturdashi

How a tithi is computed · Why the day starts at sunrise