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Makar Sankranti dates
Computed year by year from the Moon and the Sun. Each row shows the tithi the festival sits on and the lunar month in both the amanta and purnimanta reckonings, because the two name the same month differently during krishna paksha.
Also called: Pongal, Uttarayan, Maghi, Magh Bihu
The next one
Friday, 15 January 2027
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The rule
What the date is derived from, stated so you can check it.
The day the Sun enters sidereal MakaraThe tenth rashi, Capricorn. Ruled by Shani and an earth sign: patient, ambitious and unhurried, and it builds things meant to last. (Capricorn). Solar, not lunar, which is why it barely moves in the Gregorian calendar while every other festival swings by weeks.
The day is settled by the tithiThe lunar day. It runs from one step of the Moon's phase to the next, so it rarely begins at sunrise. Fasts and festivals are fixed by it. at sunrise.
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Makar Sankranti dates
| Year | Date | TithiThe lunar day. It runs from one step of the Moon's phase to the next, so it rarely begins at sunrise. Fasts and festivals are fixed by it. | Lunar monthThe lunar month, named after the nakshatra the full Moon lands in. It is about twenty-nine and a half days, so it drifts against the English calendar. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025Tuesday | Tuesday, 14 January 2025 | — | — |
| 2026Wednesday | Wednesday, 14 January 2026 | — | — |
| 2027Friday | Friday, 15 January 2027 | — | — |
| 2028Saturday | Saturday, 15 January 2028 | — | — |
| 2029Sunday | Sunday, 14 January 2029 | — | — |
| 2030Monday | Monday, 14 January 2030 | — | — |
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Other festivals
Each one with its own rule and its own dates.
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The whole calendar
Every festival and observance of the year, in one table.
Hindu calendar