Karva Chauth 2027: date and moonrise in your city

Karva Chauth 2027 is on Monday, 18 October 2027 in New York, with the moonrise at 7:53 PM EDT. Find your city below: each time is local, and some cities keep a different date from India.

Karva Chauth is kept on the Krishna Chaturthi of Kartika in the purnimanta calendar (Ashvin in the amanta calendar). Married women, and increasingly couples together, fast from sunrise until they see the Moon, then offer water to the Moon and break the fast.

How these dates and times are calculated

The fast is kept on the day when Chaturthi tithi is running at moonrise in your city. Moonrise is given the way Drik Panchang gives it: the moment the centre of the Moon reaches the horizon, without refraction, so it may be a few minutes later than an astronomy app. Hills, buildings and clouds can delay the moment you actually see it.

Because moonrise and the tithi are computed for each city's own coordinates and time zone, the date can differ from India. In a few places Chaturthi runs at moonrise on neither evening; there we use the day on which Chaturthi runs at sunrise and say so.

A simple Karva Chauth at home

1. Eat sargi before sunrise if your family follows the custom, then fast through the day as your health allows.
2. In the evening, women gather for the Karva Chauth katha and puja with a karva (clay pot) of water, a lamp and sweets.
3. When the Moon rises, look at it through a sieve, offer water (arghya) to the Moon and then see your husband's face.
4. The husband offers the first sip of water and bite of food to end the fast.

Customs differ between regions and families; follow your own tradition where it differs from this outline.