Krishna Janmashtami 2027

Krishna Janmashtami 2027 falls on Tuesday, 24 August 2027. The day is Bhadrapada Krishna Ashtami (amanta Shravana Krishna), and the tithi is tested at nishitha — the middle muhurta of the night.

The date, and how it was decided

Krishna Janmashtami 2027 falls on Tuesday, 24 August 2027.

The day is Bhadrapada Krishna Ashtami (amanta Shravana Krishna). 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 Krishna Janmashtami that period is nishitha, the middle muhurta of the night. This is the window the vigil is kept in.

Smarta and Vaishnava households do not always keep this on the same day. The tithi is tested at nishitha, the middle muhurta of the night, and where the ashtami covers that window on one night by the Smarta test and the following one by the Vaishnava, the two observances fall a day apart. The date here is the Smarta one. Several Vaishnava institutions keep it the previous day; that is the rule working, not a disagreement between publishers — see the same split on ekadashi.

Nishitha in your city

This is the window the vigil 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 nishitha, computed as the middle muhurta of the night 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 · Diwali

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