When is Ugadi?
Ugadi 2027 is on Wednesday, April 7, 2027.
Dates follow the Hindu calendar for New Delhi, India. In North America some festivals are kept one day earlier because of the time difference; check with your temple.
New Year’s Day in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Karnataka. Families eat a dish that mixes six tastes, for the sweet and bitter parts of life.
How the date is set: The first day of the month of Chaitra.
The date in other years
A short history
Ugādi (Telugu: ఉగాది, romanized: Ugādi), Yugādi (Sanskrit: युगादि, romanized: Yugādi, lit. 'beginning of the era. Yuga, meaning “era,” and Adi, meaning “beginning”', Kannada: ಯುಗಾದಿ, romanized: Yugādi) or also known as Saṁvatsarādi (Sanskrit: संवत्सरादि, romanized: Saṁvatsarādi, lit. 'beginning of the year. Samvat, meaning “era,” and Adi, meaning “beginning”'), is the first day of the year on the Hindu calendar. It is traditionally celebrated by the Kannadigas and Telugu people in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Telangana, in some parts of Tamil Nadu and Kerala, as well as by diaspora communities elsewhere.
From Wikipedia’s article Ugadi, by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Related days
Sources
- Drik Panchang festival calendar (New Delhi) Dates
- Wikipedia: Ugadi Short history (CC BY-SA 4.0)