Diwali 2027 Calendar: Every Festival from Dussehra to Kartik Purnima

Diwali 2027 Calendar: Every Festival from Dussehra to Kartik Purnima

Diwali 2027 falls on Friday 29 October, and the Diwali 2027 calendar around it runs for five weeks: Dussehra on Saturday 9 October, Karva Chauth on Monday 18 October, the five Diwali days from 27 to 31 October, Chhath from 2 to 5 November, and Guru Nanak Jayanti on Sunday 14 November. Every date below was checked against the Government of India's 2027 holiday order or Drik Panchang's 2027 festival pages, then against our own tithi calculation.

Festival pages are a small slice of SubhSandesh: 3.7% of all pages (144 of 3,894) are tied to a festival or wedding date, and they get made late. On Raksha Bandhan 2026, the nearest festival data we hold (n = 89, a different festival), 49.4% of pages were built on the day itself and not one more than 7 days ahead. A season this crowded rewards reading the whole calendar once, early.

The Diwali 2027 calendar, date by date

Times are for New Delhi. The Diwali week gets one line per day; each of those days has its own rituals and muhurat, which this page does not repeat.

• Sat 9 October — Dussehra (Vijayadashami). Gazetted holiday, on a Saturday.
• Mon 18 October — Karva Chauth. Chaturthi begins 5:51 PM; moonrise 7:35 PM.
• Fri 22 October — Ahoi Ashtami. Stars at about 6:09 PM; moonrise 11:41 PM.
• Wed 27 October — Dhanteras. Day one of Diwali.
• Thu 28 October — Choti Diwali (Naraka Chaturdashi). Drik Panchang puts Tamil Deepavali on this day, while several holiday sites list Tamil Nadu on the 29th, so check the state order.
• Fri 29 October — Diwali, Lakshmi Puja. Gazetted holiday; the new moon falls that evening.
• Sat 30 October — Govardhan Puja and Annakut.
• Sun 31 October — Bhai Dooj. The last of the five days.
• Tue 2 November — Chhath day 1, Nahay Khay.
• Wed 3 November — Chhath day 2, Kharna.
• Thu 4 November — Chhath day 3, Sandhya Arghya to the setting sun, 5:07 PM in Patna (5:34 PM in Delhi).
• Fri 5 November — Chhath day 4, Usha Arghya to the rising sun, 6:00 AM in Patna (6:36 AM in Delhi), then parana.
• Wed 10 November — Dev Uthani (Prabodhini) Ekadashi.
• Thu 11 November — Tulsi Vivah, on Dwadashi.
• Sat 13 November — Dev Deepawali, Varanasi.
• Sun 14 November — Kartik Purnima and Guru Nanak Jayanti. Gazetted holiday, on a Sunday.

We checked each tithi with the open-source Astronomy Engine library, and every date matched. Our Karva Chauth moonrise came out at 7:30 PM against the panchang's 7:35 PM, so use the panchang's figure.

Why Dev Deepawali comes a day before Kartik Purnima in 2027

Purnima tithi runs from 9:55 AM on Saturday 13 November to 8:55 AM on Sunday 14 November. The Kartik Purnima bath and Guru Nanak Jayanti follow the tithi at sunrise, which makes Sunday the full-moon day.

Dev Deepawali is a dusk festival, and by Sunday evening the tithi has turned to Pratipada. So Drik Panchang's Dev Deepawali page for Varanasi puts it on Saturday 13 November, with a pradosh window of 5:11 PM to 7:48 PM, and its Kartik Purnima page puts the full-moon fast on Saturday too.

For a Varanasi trip, Saturday night is the one to book. Arriving on Sunday morning gets you the Kartik Purnima bath, not the lamps on the ghats.

Karva Chauth and Ahoi Ashtami: two fasts, 18 and 22 October

Drik Panchang's Karva Chauth 2027 page sets the fast from 6:23 AM to 7:35 PM on Monday 18 October, 13 hours 11 minutes in Delhi, with the puja from 5:49 PM to 7:04 PM. Four days later, Ahoi Ashtami is kept by mothers for their children, and many break it at star sighting because the moon rises so late.

A 2015 review in the Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Kalra and colleagues on glycaemic management during Hindu fasts, describes Karva Chauth as running from dawn until the moon is sighted, roughly 12 to 15 hours depending on latitude and a clear sky. Delhi's 2027 fast sits inside that range.

The review groups Karva Chauth and Hoi (Ahoi) Ashtami as yearly fasts, where medicine for diabetes can be adjusted on the day itself. That is a conversation for a doctor in early October, not on the evening of the 17th.

Chhath 2027: four days, 2 to 5 November

Chhath falls on Kartika Shukla Shashthi, which in 2027 runs from 7:31 PM on 3 November to 9:37 PM on 4 November. Drik Panchang's 2027 Chhath calendar sets Nahay Khay on Tuesday, Kharna on Wednesday, Sandhya Arghya on Thursday and Usha Arghya with the parana on Friday.

A 2025 qualitative study by Khadka, Bhattarai and Thakur, based on interviews with three Chhath observers from Nepal's Terai living in Kathmandu, describes it as unusual in worshipping both the setting and the rising sun. It records that Chhath draws people who live away back home to their families, and calls it a bi-annual festival; three interviews are description, not measurement.

The practical point: Chhath starts two days after Bhai Dooj. Anyone travelling home to Bihar, Jharkhand or eastern Uttar Pradesh for both has a one-trip choice to make.

Guru Nanak Jayanti on 14 November, and the Baisakh birth date

Drik Panchang marks Sunday 14 November 2027 as the 558th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak, kept on Kartik Purnima. It is a gazetted central-government holiday, though this year it falls on a Sunday.

The month has a recorded history. Max Arthur Macauliffe's The Sikh Religion, Volume I (1909) writes that the older Janamsakhis place the Guru's birth on the third day of the light half of Baisakh, 1469, and that the anniversary "is now observed by the Sikhs on the occasion of the full moon in the month of Kartik". He adds that the fair at Nankana was still held in Baisakh as late as Sambat 1872.

Which of these days are holidays: the 2027 DoPT list

The Department of Personnel and Training's 2027 holiday order, O.M. 12/2/2023-JCA, gives three gazetted holidays this season for central-government offices in Delhi: Dussehra (9 October), Diwali (29 October) and Guru Nanak's Birthday (14 November). Two of the three fall on a weekend, so the season brings exactly one weekday gazetted holiday, Friday 29 October.

The restricted list adds Karva Chauth (18 October), Naraka Chaturdasi (28 October), Govardhan Puja (30 October), Bhai Duj (31 October) and Chhath (4 November). Three of those fall on weekdays, and each employee may take only two restricted holidays in the whole year, so one of the three has to go.

The order also prints each date in the Saka national calendar: Diwali is Kartika 7, Guru Nanak's Birthday Kartika 23, but Karva Chauth is Asvina 26, because Saka Kartika begins only on 23 October. A lunar calendar that calls Karva Chauth a Kartika fast and a national one that files it under Asvina are both right; they count months differently.

Planning greetings across the five weeks

Raksha Bandhan 2026 is the only festival where SubhSandesh has build data, so it is used here as an analogue, with a small n = 89. Applied to three dates in this season, it shows when most people will actually act.

Two columns collide: four days ahead of Chhath is Bhai Dooj weekend, so settle a Chhath message before Diwali. And since 48.3% of shared SubhSandesh pages are opened on a phone, what you send will probably be read in a crowd, a train or a ghat queue.

For Diwali night, the interactive Happy Diwali card on SubhSandesh is built for one person. They light a diya at their door with your tag on it, a row of wish diyas, a rangoli that glows with your initials and sky lanterns holding up to six photos, then open your letter from a shagun liffafa. It has love, family and friend modes, takes about five minutes, and opens in any phone browser with no app.

Karva Chauth is the date here that stings most when a couple is apart, say with a husband posted in another city. For that, the SubhSandesh "I miss you" page fits better than a Diwali card: 28.0% of people who make one set a reunion date for its countdown (60 of 214), and Diwali, 11 days later, is a natural one to set.

When this calendar, or a greeting page, is the wrong tool

The times above are for New Delhi. A tithi begins at one moment across India, but sunrise, sunset and moonrise move with the city, so a Mumbai or Patna family can see a different window, and a household that follows its own priest or its gurdwara should follow them.

SubhSandesh has no Karva Chauth, Chhath or Gurpurab template, so for those days this page is only a date guide. A Chhath arghya at the river, a fast broken together on 18 October and a gurdwara visit on 14 November are things no link stands in for.

Sources

• Department of Personnel and Training, 2027 holiday order, O.M. 12/2/2023-JCA (2026).
• Drik Panchang, 2027 pages for Karva Chauth, Ahoi Ashtami, Chhath, Prabodhini Ekadashi, Tulasi Vivah, Dev Deepawali, Kartik Purnima and Guru Nanak Jayanti (date references, read 22 October 2026).
• Kalra S. et al., Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism (2015), Europe PMC.
• Khadka, Bhattarai and Thakur, Janabhawana Research Journal (29 July 2025), NepJOL.
• Macauliffe M. A., The Sikh Religion, Volume I (1909), Internet Archive.