Ram Navami and Hanuman Jayanti 2027: Dates and Puja Timing

Ram Navami 2027 is on Thursday, 15 April, Chaitra Shuddha Navami. Hanuman Jayanti follows five days later on Tuesday, 20 April, Chaitra Pournima. Both are counted from Gudi Padwa on 7 April, which starts the month of Chaitra and the nine days of Chaitra Navratri.

Dates in Chaitra 2027

Ram Navami 2027

Ram was born at noon, so the main puja and the cradle (palna) ceremony in temples happen at madhyahna, around 12 pm. Kirtan starts in the morning, the idol of baby Ram is placed in a decorated cradle at noon, and sunthavda (dry ginger powder with sugar) is given as prasad. Ram Navami is a public holiday in Maharashtra.

There is a Guru Pushyamrut yoga on the same morning, from 6:24 am to 9:33 am, which some people use for buying gold before the noon puja. The calendar also marks Samarth Ramdas Swami Jayanti and the Ram Navami utsav at Shirdi on this date.

Hanuman Jayanti 2027

Hanuman Jayanti in Maharashtra is kept on Chaitra Pournima, at sunrise, because Hanuman is believed to have been born at dawn. Temples start the kirtan before 6 am and the janma kaal is marked just after sunrise, so the fast is often kept on the day before. The calendar notes the fast on 19 April.

The pournima tithi runs until 3:56 am in the night after 20 April. Tuljapur's Bhavani yatra and the Jyotiba yatra near Kolhapur are on the same day; see Jyotiba and Kolhapur Ambabai 2027.

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The start of the month is covered in Gudi Padwa 2027. Other Chaitra dates, with daily tithi, are on the April 2027 Marathi calendar, and public holidays for the year are in Maharashtra public holidays 2027.

For the full year at a glance, open the Marathi Calendar 2027 page.