Sankashti Chaturthi July 2027 — 22 July
సంకష్టహర చతుర్థి July 2027
Gajanana Sankashti falls on Thursday, 22 July 2027. Sankashti Chaturthi is the fourth tithi of the waning fortnight, kept for Ganapati. The fast runs from sunrise and is broken only after the moon has been sighted, so it is the moonrise — not sunset — that ends the day. One falls in each lunar month, and when it lands on a Tuesday it is Angaraki Sankashti, held the most consequential of the year.
| Date | Name | Telugu | Masa & Paksha | Moonrise (Hyderabad) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 July 2027Thursday | Gajanana Sankashti | గజానన సంకష్టహర చతుర్థి | Ashadha Krishna | 9:14 PM |
Computed for Hyderabad (17.385°N, 78.486°E) with Lahiri ayanamsa. For your own city use Today's Panchangam, which is location-aware.
What the day is for
Gajanana Sankashti — Thursday, 22 July 2027
Falls as Chaturmasya begins. The Ganesha Atharvashirsha is recited before the moon is offered arghya.
How the day is kept
- Sankalpa at sunrise. After bathing, the intention is stated before Ganapati — that the fast is kept for the removal of an obstacle, which is what sankashta-hara means.
- Fast through the day. Most keep phalahara — fruit, milk, and the sabudana, samak rice and groundnut foods a vrata allows. A stricter observance takes only water.
- Puja in the evening. Ganapati is offered durva grass in bunches, red flowers, and modak or laddu. The Sankashtanashana Ganesha Stotra and the Ganesha Atharvashirsha are the two texts customarily recited.
- Arghya to the moon. When the moon has been sighted, water is offered to it with sandal paste and rice, and only then is the fast broken. The moonrise is the whole point of the day — a fast broken before it is not this vrata.
- The meal. Taken after the arghya, satvik, with the modak offered to Ganapati first.
The moonrise above is for Hyderabad
It is the one figure on this page that changes materially with where you are. The same moon rises roughly fifteen to twenty minutes later in Mumbai, around half an hour later in Delhi, and earlier in Chennai and Kolkata. If you are keeping the fast outside Hyderabad, break it on your own city's moonrise — Today's Panchangam computes it from your location — and read the time here as the reference rather than the rule.