Dhanurmasam 2026: Start and End Dates

Dhanurmasam 2026 begins on Wednesday 16 December 2026 and ends on Bhogi on Thursday 14 January 2027 in the Telugu states (Hyderabad, IST). Also called Dhanur Masam, Dhanurmasa.

తెలుగులో చదవండి · Read in Telugu

Next year: Dhanurmasam 2027 – Thursday 16 December 2027

Dhanurmasam is the solar month while the Sun is in sidereal Dhanus, roughly 16 December to 14 January: temples open before dawn for Tiruppavai recitation, Godadevi's thirty pasurams are sung one a day, and Vaikuntha Ekadashi and Bhogi fall inside it. It ends with Makara Sankranti. The start day is the local date of the Sun's ingress.

Timings by city: India, USA, UK, Canada, Australia

Every time is computed for the city's own coordinates and time zone (daylight saving applied); nothing is converted from IST. The last column is the part of the day the rule judges; the date is the day the tithi covers it. It is the window the tradition names for the observance, not a separately chosen muhurtham; we do not print other muhurthams because we have not verified them.

How the date is decided

Sun enters sidereal Dhanus (ingress before local sunset -> that day).

Date by city

Different date in 100 of 215 cities: Los Angeles, San Francisco Bay Area, Chicago, Dallas, New York, Atlanta, Irving, Plano, Frisco, McKinney, Coppell, Fort Worth and 88 more — the tithi is judged against each city's own sunrise and local time (daylight saving included), so the day can shift for cities far from India.

FAQ

Coming up next

• Tuesday 10 November 2026 – Bali Padyami (Govardhan Puja)
• Tuesday 10 November 2026 – Karthika Masam begins
• Wednesday 11 November 2026 – Bhagini Hasta Bhojanam (Yama Dwitiya)
• Friday 13 November 2026 – Nagula Chavithi
• Monday 16 November 2026 – Karthika Somavaram
• Saturday 21 November 2026 – Kshirabdi Dwadasi (Chilukula Dwadasi)

All upcoming festivals and the next festival countdown

Related

• Margashira Lakshmivaram – Thursday 17 December 2026
• Vaikuntha Ekadashi (Mukkoti Ekadashi) – Sunday 20 December 2026
• Dattatreya Jayanti – Wednesday 23 December 2026
• Pushya Masam begins – Friday 8 January 2027
• Bhogi – Thursday 14 January 2027

Dhanurmasam 2027 · Festivals 2026 · Festivals December 2026 · Calendar December 2026