Purnima in April 2028
The Pūrṇimā of April 2028: when the tithi begins and ends, and the fast day, for your city’s sunrise.
The Satyanarayan Puja is kept on the Purnima by popular practice; no text read gives the day.
Purnima in Delhi
- Fast day · ChaitraSunday, 9 April
Purnima in Mumbai
- Fast day · ChaitraSunday, 9 April
Purnima in Kolkata
- Fast day · ChaitraSunday, 9 April
Purnima in Chennai
- Fast day · ChaitraSunday, 9 April
Purnima in Bengaluru
- Fast day · ChaitraSunday, 9 April
Purnima in Hyderabad
- Fast day · ChaitraSunday, 9 April
Purnima in Ahmedabad
- Fast day · ChaitraSunday, 9 April
Purnima in Pune
- Fast day · ChaitraSunday, 9 April
Purnima in Jaipur
- Fast day · ChaitraSunday, 9 April
Purnima in Lucknow
- Fast day · ChaitraSunday, 9 April
Purnima in London
- Fast day · ChaitraSunday, 9 April
Purnima in New York City
- Fast day · ChaitraSaturday, 8 April
Purnima in Toronto
- Fast day · ChaitraSaturday, 8 April
Purnima in Sydney
- Fast day · ChaitraSunday, 9 April
Purnima in Dubai
- Fast day · ChaitraSunday, 9 April
Purnima in Singapore
- Fast day · ChaitraSunday, 9 April
Sunday, 9 April
Chaitra, PurnimaPurnima from Sat 8 Apr, 19:11 to Sun 9 Apr, 15:56, Delhi time.
Fast day, Sunday, 9 April: the fast takes the later of Saturday and Sunday, the day joined to the next Pratipadā, and never the day joined to Chaturdaśī. Nirṇaya-sindhu p. 73
Sunday, 9 April
Chaitra, PurnimaPurnima from Sat 8 Apr, 19:11 to Sun 9 Apr, 15:56, Mumbai time.
Fast day, Sunday, 9 April: the fast takes the later of Saturday and Sunday, the day joined to the next Pratipadā, and never the day joined to Chaturdaśī. Nirṇaya-sindhu p. 73
Sunday, 9 April
Chaitra, PurnimaPurnima from Sat 8 Apr, 19:11 to Sun 9 Apr, 15:56, Kolkata time.
Fast day, Sunday, 9 April: the fast takes the later of Saturday and Sunday, the day joined to the next Pratipadā, and never the day joined to Chaturdaśī. Nirṇaya-sindhu p. 73
Sunday, 9 April
Chaitra, PurnimaPurnima from Sat 8 Apr, 19:11 to Sun 9 Apr, 15:56, Chennai time.
Fast day, Sunday, 9 April: the fast takes the later of Saturday and Sunday, the day joined to the next Pratipadā, and never the day joined to Chaturdaśī. Nirṇaya-sindhu p. 73
Sunday, 9 April
Chaitra, PurnimaPurnima from Sat 8 Apr, 19:11 to Sun 9 Apr, 15:56, Bengaluru time.
Fast day, Sunday, 9 April: the fast takes the later of Saturday and Sunday, the day joined to the next Pratipadā, and never the day joined to Chaturdaśī. Nirṇaya-sindhu p. 73
Sunday, 9 April
Chaitra, PurnimaPurnima from Sat 8 Apr, 19:11 to Sun 9 Apr, 15:56, Hyderabad time.
Fast day, Sunday, 9 April: the fast takes the later of Saturday and Sunday, the day joined to the next Pratipadā, and never the day joined to Chaturdaśī. Nirṇaya-sindhu p. 73
Sunday, 9 April
Chaitra, PurnimaPurnima from Sat 8 Apr, 19:11 to Sun 9 Apr, 15:56, Ahmedabad time.
Fast day, Sunday, 9 April: the fast takes the later of Saturday and Sunday, the day joined to the next Pratipadā, and never the day joined to Chaturdaśī. Nirṇaya-sindhu p. 73
Sunday, 9 April
Chaitra, PurnimaPurnima from Sat 8 Apr, 19:11 to Sun 9 Apr, 15:56, Pune time.
Fast day, Sunday, 9 April: the fast takes the later of Saturday and Sunday, the day joined to the next Pratipadā, and never the day joined to Chaturdaśī. Nirṇaya-sindhu p. 73
Sunday, 9 April
Chaitra, PurnimaPurnima from Sat 8 Apr, 19:11 to Sun 9 Apr, 15:56, Jaipur time.
Fast day, Sunday, 9 April: the fast takes the later of Saturday and Sunday, the day joined to the next Pratipadā, and never the day joined to Chaturdaśī. Nirṇaya-sindhu p. 73
Sunday, 9 April
Chaitra, PurnimaPurnima from Sat 8 Apr, 19:11 to Sun 9 Apr, 15:56, Lucknow time.
Fast day, Sunday, 9 April: the fast takes the later of Saturday and Sunday, the day joined to the next Pratipadā, and never the day joined to Chaturdaśī. Nirṇaya-sindhu p. 73
Sunday, 9 April
Chaitra, PurnimaPurnima from Sat 8 Apr, 14:41 to Sun 9 Apr, 11:26, London time.
Fast day, Sunday, 9 April: the fast takes the later of Saturday and Sunday, the day joined to the next Pratipadā, and never the day joined to Chaturdaśī. Nirṇaya-sindhu p. 73
Saturday, 8 April
Chaitra, PurnimaPurnima from Sat 8 Apr, 09:41 to Sun 9 Apr, 06:26, New York City time.
Fast day, Saturday, 8 April: the Pūrṇimā touches no sunrise, so this is its only day. Nirṇaya-sindhu p. 73
Saturday, 8 April
Chaitra, PurnimaPurnima from Sat 8 Apr, 09:41 to Sun 9 Apr, 06:26, Toronto time.
Fast day, Saturday, 8 April: the Pūrṇimā touches no sunrise, so this is its only day. Nirṇaya-sindhu p. 73
Sunday, 9 April
Chaitra, PurnimaPurnima from Sat 8 Apr, 23:41 to Sun 9 Apr, 20:26, Sydney time.
Fast day, Sunday, 9 April: the fast takes the later of Saturday and Sunday, the day joined to the next Pratipadā, and never the day joined to Chaturdaśī. Nirṇaya-sindhu p. 73
Sunday, 9 April
Chaitra, PurnimaPurnima from Sat 8 Apr, 17:41 to Sun 9 Apr, 14:26, Dubai time.
Fast day, Sunday, 9 April: the fast takes the later of Saturday and Sunday, the day joined to the next Pratipadā, and never the day joined to Chaturdaśī. Nirṇaya-sindhu p. 73
Sunday, 9 April
Chaitra, PurnimaPurnima from Sat 8 Apr, 21:41 to Sun 9 Apr, 18:26, Singapore time.
Fast day, Sunday, 9 April: the fast takes the later of Saturday and Sunday, the day joined to the next Pratipadā, and never the day joined to Chaturdaśī. Nirṇaya-sindhu p. 73
Questions
Rules from the Nirṇaya-sindhu, with the page for each.
When is Purnima in April 2028?
In Delhi: the fast on Sunday, 9 April, with the Purnima from Sat 8 Apr, 19:11 to Sun 9 Apr, 15:56.
What is Purnima?
The full moon: the fifteenth tithi, which ends the bright half (Shukla) of the lunar month. A tithi is the time the Moon takes to gain 12° on the Sun. In the pūrṇimānta reckoning the Pūrṇimā is the last day of the month. Surya Siddhanta 2.64, 2.66
Which day is the Purnima fast?
The fast is kept on the later of the two days, the one joined to the next Pratipadā, and never on the day joined to Chaturdaśī. The Sāvitrī vrata is the exception and keeps the earlier day. Nirṇaya-sindhu p. 73
Why do some calendars show the Purnima fast a day earlier?
Some families keep the Pūrṇimā on the earlier day, joined to Caturdaśī, as a family custom (kula-dharma). The Dharmasindhu says the basis for doing so every month is still to be sought, and accepts the earlier day only when the Caturdaśī lasts under eighteen nāḍīs (7 hours 12 minutes) after that day’s sunrise. These pages show the earlier day only then, labelled family custom; the fast itself is the later day, by the rule of the Nirṇaya-sindhu. Dharmasindhu p. 20
Why is the date different in my city?
Each date is worked out for the city’s own sunrise. The Pūrṇimā begins and ends at the same moment everywhere, but which sunrise it reaches depends on the city, so cities far apart can keep different days.
How the days are found
Read the methodology- Fast day
- The fast is on the later day, joined to the next Pratipadā, and never on the day joined to Chaturdaśī. The Sāvitrī vrata keeps the earlier day.
- Sunrise
- At the centre of the Sun’s disc, with refraction, for the chosen city. Every date is that city’s own.
- Family custom
- The earlier day, joined to Caturdaśī, is shown only when the Caturdaśī lasts under eighteen nāḍīs (7 h 12 min) after that day’s sunrise, the one case in which the Dharmasindhu accepts it for family custom (kula-dharma). We count the nāḍīs from that sunrise to the start of the Pūrṇimā: our reading.
- Festivals
- Festivals that fall on a Pūrṇimā follow rules of their own, which these dates do not apply.
- Sources
- Nirṇaya-sindhu, 1898, p. 73 (Brahma-vaivarta); Dharmasindhu, 1888, p. 20.
Sunrise at the centre of the Sun’s disc, with refraction · Lahiri ayanamsa for month names · each city’s own time · Swiss Ephemeris · Method