Rama Navami: 2026 and 2027 dates by city

Birth of Lord Rama at midday of Chaitra Shukla Navami.

Rama Navami celebrates the birth of Lord Rama, the seventh avatar of Vishnu, on the ninth day of the bright half of Chaitra. Tulsidas's Ramcharitmanas and many traditions place his birth at noon. It also closes the nine nights of Chaitra Navratri.

Temples and homes read the Ramayana or the Ramcharitmanas, often through the nine days before. At midday a small image of baby Rama is placed in a cradle and worshipped with flowers, songs and panakam, a cooling drink of jaggery and pepper. Many fast until noon or all day. Processions with Rama, Sita, Lakshmana and Hanuman go through the streets of Ayodhya and many towns.

How the date is set

Navami, shukla paksha (waxing Moon), in the month of Chaitra by the amanta calendar (the month ends at the new moon). It is kept on the day when the tithi holds the madhyahna, the middle fifth of the daytime.

Dates in 2026 and 2027

The local date in each city; under it, the time of the part of the day the rule looks at, in local time.

In 2026 Delhi keeps it on 26 March; a day apart from that: Bangkok, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Ho Chi Minh City, Tokyo, Seoul, Shanghai, Sydney.

In 2027 Delhi keeps it on 15 April; a day apart from that: Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa, Dnipro, Lviv, Minsk, Riga, Tbilisi, Chișinău, Berlin, Warsaw, Prague, London, New York, Tel Aviv, Toronto, Los Angeles, Chicago, Paris, Madrid, Rome, Istanbul, São Paulo, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Lisbon.

Smarta rules as published by Drik Panchang. ISKCON and regional calendars can name another day. The time shown is the part of the day the rule looks at, not a muhurat for a particular puja.

How to read the table

Each row is a city from our panchang list, and the date is the local civil date on which Rama Navami is kept there by its rule. Under the date is the time of the part of the day that rule looks at, in the city's own local time: for example the pradosh kala, the evening after sunset, or the nishita around midnight. A time past midnight carries (+1). Where the rule names no part of the day, such as a solar ingress or a festival tied to another festival, only the date is given. The city's name opens its panchang for today.

Why the date can differ between cities

A tithi begins and ends at the same moment everywhere, but sunrise, noon and evening come at different local times. If the tithi ends shortly before the evening in one city and shortly after it in another, the two cities keep the festival on different dates. That is why a single date for the whole world is wrong for some places, and why this page gives the date city by city. The difference is almost always one day.

Which calendar this follows

These are the Smarta dates, by the decision rules of the Dharmasindhu and Nirnayasindhu as Drik Panchang publishes them; every city in the table was compared with Drik Panchang's calendar for that city. ISKCON keeps some days, Janmashtami among them, by the Vaishnava rule, and regional calendars can name another day. If your family or temple follows a particular calendar, follow it.

Questions

See also

• Delhi
• Hindu festivals 2026–2027
• Gangaur
• Hanuman Jayanti

Positions and tables: sidereal zodiac, Lahiri ayanamsha — the same as professional Jyotish astrologers use, and the same calculation as the charts in JyotiSoft. Updated 2026-10-17.