FestivalChaitra Shukla Pratipada

Ugadi and Gudi Padwa 2027

उगादि और गुड़ी पड़वा

Ugadi and Gudi Padwa mark the Hindu lunar New Year on Chaitra Shukla Pratipada, with the six-taste Ugadi pachadi, the gudi flag and the reading of the new almanac.

Next: Wednesday, 7 April 2027

Quick answer

Ugadi and Gudi Padwa 2027 falls on Wednesday, 7 April 2027 (Chaitra Shukla Pratipada). In 2026 it fell on Thursday, 19 March 2026.

Dates follow the Delhi panchang and can shift by a day in your region, so confirm the muhurat with a local panchang.

Ugadi and Gudi Padwa 2027 fall on Wednesday, 7 April, the first day of the bright half of Chaitra. This is the Hindu lunar New Year: Ugadi in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, Gudi Padwa in Maharashtra and Goa, and Cheti Chand among Sindhis. In 2027 it also opens Vikram Samvat 2084 and the nine nights of Chaitra Navratri. Families clean their homes, hang mango leaves, and begin the year with a taste of every flavour of life.

Ugadi and Gudi Padwa 2027 date

Ugadi and Gudi Padwa 2027 are on Wednesday, 7 April 2027 (Chaitra Shukla Pratipada). In 2026 they fell on Thursday, 19 March. The new Hindu year that begins is Vikram Samvat 2084.

Why Ugadi and Gudi Padwa are celebrated

The name Ugadi comes from “yuga adi”, the beginning of an age. Tradition, drawn from the Brahma Purana and the panchang texts, holds that Brahma began the creation of the universe on Chaitra Shukla Pratipada, so the day is treated as the birthday of time itself and the start of the year’s almanac.

In Maharashtra, the gudi, a bright cloth tied to a bamboo pole and crowned with an upturned copper or silver pot, neem leaves and a garland of sugar crystals, is raised outside homes as a flag of victory. Popular tradition links it to Rama‘s victorious return to Ayodhya and to the victory of the Shalivahana king, whose era (Shaka) is also counted from this season. These associations come from regional tradition.

How Ugadi and Gudi Padwa are celebrated

Oil bath and new clothes at dawn, with mango-leaf torans and rangoli at the door.
Ugadi pachadi: a chutney of six tastes, neem flower (bitter), jaggery (sweet), tamarind (sour), raw mango (tangy), salt and chilli, eaten to accept every experience the year will bring.
Raising the gudi to the right of the main door in Maharashtra, with puja and a sweet of neem and jaggery.
Panchanga shravanam: listening to the reading of the new year’s almanac and its forecasts in temples.
Festive food: puran poli and shrikhand in Maharashtra, obbattu and holige in the south.

The meaning of the festival

Ugadi and Gudi Padwa begin the year with balance. Tasting bitter and sweet together is a quiet resolve to meet joy and hardship with the same steady mind. Plan the rest of the year with the Hindu festival calendar.