The Akshaya Tritiya date and time for 2027 falls on Sunday, 9 May. The Tritiya tithi ends at 9:03 AM that morning. So the real puja window is much shorter than most calendars suggest. Many guides simply print “sunrise to noon”, and families end up worshipping after the tithi has already closed.
This guide gives the verified timings, the city-wise muhurat and the gold-buying window. It also explains why the festival lands almost three weeks later in 2027 than it did in 2026.
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Akshaya Tritiya Date and Time at a Glance
- Festival day in India: Sunday, 9 May 2027
- Tritiya tithi begins: 11:43 AM on Saturday, 8 May 2027
- Tritiya tithi ends: 9:03 AM on Sunday, 9 May 2027
- Puja muhurat: local sunrise until 9:03 AM on 9 May
- Gold-buying window: 11:43 AM on 8 May to 9:03 AM on 9 May
- Also observed as: Akha Teej, Parashurama Jayanti, Simhachalam Chandanotsavam
Every Akshaya Tritiya date and time on this page uses Indian Standard Time, cross-checked against two independent panchangam sources. Because sunrise differs by city, your local start time will vary by up to an hour.
When Is Akshaya Tritiya in 2027?
Devotees across India observe Akshaya Tritiya 2027 on Sunday, 9 May. The festival always falls on Shukla Paksha Tritiya in the lunar month of Vaishakha. Since the tithi is still running at sunrise on 9 May, the udaya-tithi rule assigns the festival to that day, although the tithi actually starts the previous afternoon.
The word akshaya means “that which never diminishes”. Tradition holds that japa, daana and any new beginning made on this tithi carry benefits that do not fade. Vedic electional astrology counts it among the small handful of days that need no separate muhurat at all. You can read the wider background of the festival on Wikipedia.
City-Wise Akshaya Tritiya Date and Time for Puja
The morning puja window opens at local sunrise and closes when the tithi ends at 9:03 AM everywhere in India. Because sunrise moves west across the country, eastern cities get a longer window than western ones.
| City | Puja window (9 May 2027) | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Kolkata | 5:00 AM – 9:03 AM | 4 hr 03 min |
| Chandigarh | 5:33 AM – 9:03 AM | 3 hr 30 min |
| New Delhi | 5:35 AM – 9:03 AM | 3 hr 28 min |
| Jaipur | 5:43 AM – 9:03 AM | 3 hr 20 min |
| Chennai | 5:45 AM – 9:03 AM | 3 hr 18 min |
| Hyderabad | 5:47 AM – 9:03 AM | 3 hr 16 min |
| Bengaluru | 5:56 AM – 9:03 AM | 3 hr 07 min |
| Ahmedabad | 6:02 AM – 9:03 AM | 3 hr 01 min |
| Pune | 6:03 AM – 9:03 AM | 3 hr 00 min |
| Mumbai | 6:07 AM – 9:03 AM | 2 hr 56 min |
In plain numbers: Hyderabad devotees have three hours and sixteen minutes, while Mumbai gets under three hours. If your city is not listed, take your local sunrise as the start and 9:03 AM as the hard stop.
The Akshaya Tritiya Date and Time Error Most Guides Repeat
Search results for this festival are full of a stock line: puja muhurat from sunrise to around noon. That formula comes from years when the tithi ran late into the afternoon. It does not hold in 2027.
One widely used panchangam site still lists the 2027 puja muhurat as 5:52 AM to 12:23 PM, although its own tithi table shows the Tritiya ending at 9:03 AM. Those two figures cannot both be right. Where sources disagree, the safer reading is to finish the puja before the tithi closes.
Therefore, check the Akshaya Tritiya date and time against the tithi itself rather than a stock phrase. Plan the sankalpa and the main worship for the early morning. Charity, temple visits and family meals can continue through the day, because daana does not bind itself to the tithi in the same strict way.
Gold Buying Muhurat for Akshaya Tritiya 2027
The Akshaya Tritiya date and time for gold differ from the puja window. The auspicious buying period runs from 11:43 AM on Saturday, 8 May to 9:03 AM on Sunday, 9 May 2027. That is roughly twenty-one hours in total. It is unusual, because most of the shopping-friendly hours fall on the Saturday afternoon and evening, not on the festival day itself.
Jewellery showrooms will still be open all day Sunday, and many will advertise Sunday as the muhurat. Buying then is a cultural choice rather than a tithi-bound one. If the timing matters to your family, treat Saturday afternoon as the practical slot.
Checking a hallmark before you pay
Hallmarked gold jewellery in India carries a six-digit alphanumeric HUID code, along with the BIS mark and the purity grade. You can verify that code in the BIS Care app from the Bureau of Indian Standards before paying. Also ask for the making charges and the wastage percentage in writing, since these vary widely between showrooms.
This section is general information and not financial advice. Gold prices move daily, so check the current rate with your jeweller and a recognised bullion source on the day.
Why the Akshaya Tritiya Date and Time Shifts So Much
The Akshaya Tritiya date and time moved from 19 April in 2026 to 9 May in 2027 — twenty days later. That direction confuses people, because lunar festivals normally creep about eleven days earlier each year.
The reason is the adhika masa, the leap month that the Hindu luni-solar calendar inserts roughly every three years to keep the lunar and solar years aligned. When an extra month falls between two occurrences of a festival, the next date jumps forward by nearly a full lunar cycle instead of sliding backwards.
This is exactly why carrying last year’s date forward is unsafe. A calculation that works in an ordinary year breaks in a leap year, which is how wrong festival dates spread across dozens of websites at once.
Akshaya Tritiya date and time in the next five years
| Year | Date in India | Day |
|---|---|---|
| 2027 | 9 May | Sunday |
| 2028 | 27 April | Thursday |
| 2029 | 16 May | Wednesday |
| 2030 | 5 May | Sunday |
| 2031 | 24 April | Thursday |
Treat future years as indicative and confirm the exact tithi timings closer to the day, because panchangam makers refine their calculations every year.
How the Akshaya Tritiya Date and Time Changes Abroad
Devotees outside India often observe the festival a day earlier. For the United States in 2027, the same tithi maps to Saturday, 8 May in local time, not Sunday. That is not an error in either calendar; it is the tithi being converted into a different time zone.
If you are in North America or Europe, use a panchangam set to your own city rather than an Indian one. Meanwhile, if you want to keep the puja synchronised with family back home, work backwards from 9:03 AM IST on 9 May and convert that moment to your local clock.
Simple Akshaya Tritiya Puja Vidhi at Home
The home ritual is short and needs very little. Because the window closes at 9:03 AM in 2027, keep the arrangement ready the previous evening.
- Bathe before sunrise, then wear fresh yellow or white clothes.
- Clean the altar and place images of Lord Vishnu and Goddess Lakshmi together.
- Light a ghee lamp and take the sankalpa, naming the day and your intention.
- Offer sandalwood paste, tulsi leaves, yellow flowers and akshata.
- Give naivedyam such as sattu, tender cucumber, panakam or a milk sweet.
- Recite the Vishnu Sahasranama or the Lakshmi ashtottara, as your tradition prescribes.
- Finish with aarti, then complete a daana before the day ends.
Chandanam is the signature offering of this tithi. Sandalwood carries associations of coolness and of the summer month of Vaishakha, so it appears in almost every regional version of the ritual.
What to donate
The classical list favours summer relief: water pots, buttermilk, sattu, barley, curd rice, fans, umbrellas and footwear. Several texts single out udaka kumbha daana, the gift of a water-filled pot. Tradition treats feeding someone as the highest form of giving on this day.
Akshaya Tritiya in the Telugu Temple Calendar
For devotees in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, this tithi carries one unmissable temple event. At Simhachalam near Visakhapatnam, priests remove the sandalwood casing covering Sri Varaha Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy on Akshaya Tritiya, and the deity’s original form stays visible for roughly twelve hours. No other day in the year offers that darshan.
Crowds are enormous and the queue starts well before dawn. Read our detailed guide to Simhachalam Chandanotsavam before planning that trip, since entry arrangements change year to year.
The same fortnight also carries Narasimha Jayanti, which falls on the Chaturdashi after this tithi. Many families observe both, so it helps to plan the two together.
What People Get Wrong About This Day
A few misconceptions come up every year, and they cost devotees either money or merit.
- “Any time on the day works.” The day is muhurat-free for starting ventures. The formal puja still follows the tithi.
- “Gold is compulsory.” Buying gold is a custom, not a scriptural instruction. Several traditions prefer daana over any purchase.
- “Online booking is open for temple sevas.” Many temples handle festival-day sevas at the counter only. Always confirm on the temple’s own portal.
- “The date is the same worldwide.” It is not, as the time-zone section above explains.
A note on fasting
Fasting on this tithi is optional. If you are pregnant, elderly, diabetic or on regular medication, please speak to your doctor before attempting a full-day fast. A fruit-and-water vrat carries the same intention without the risk. Ritual observances are matters of faith and tradition, and they are not a substitute for medical treatment.
If You Miss the Muhurat
Missing the 9:03 AM cut-off is not a failure, and no text prescribes a penalty for it. Still, people ask what to do, so here are the practical options in order.
- Complete the puja anyway, with a sankalpa acknowledging the delay. Intention carries the ritual.
- Shift the emphasis to daana, which remains meritorious throughout the day.
- Visit a Vishnu or Lakshmi temple during the day, since temple worship follows its own schedule.
- For a major new venture, use the next available muhurat from your family panchangam rather than forcing this one.
There is no alternative tithi later in the month, so a genuinely muhurat-critical event should be planned around the 8 May afternoon window instead.
Before You Go
The single Akshaya Tritiya date and time to remember is 9:03 AM on 9 May 2027. Everything ritual-bound sits before it, while charity, temple visits and shopping can carry on afterwards. Keep the samagri ready the night before, because a three-hour window disappears quickly on a Sunday morning.
For the meaning behind the tithi, the Akshaya Patra story and the fuller ritual background, see our companion guide on the significance of Akshaya Tritiya. Cross-check the final timings on Drik Panchang for your own city a week before the festival.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Akshaya Tritiya date and time in 2027?
Akshaya Tritiya 2027 falls on Sunday, 9 May in India. The Tritiya tithi begins at 11:43 AM on 8 May and ends at 9:03 AM on 9 May. The morning puja window therefore runs from local sunrise until 9:03 AM.
Is the Akshaya Tritiya date and time the same everywhere in India?
The date is the same across India, and the tithi ends at 9:03 AM everywhere. Only the start of the window moves, because sunrise differs by city. Kolkata gets about four hours while Mumbai gets under three.
What is the best time to buy gold on Akshaya Tritiya 2027?
The tithi-bound window runs from 11:43 AM on 8 May to 9:03 AM on 9 May 2027. Saturday afternoon and evening are the most practical hours within it. Buying later on Sunday is common practice, though it falls outside the tithi.
Why does the Akshaya Tritiya date and time move so much in 2027?
An adhika masa, or leap month, falls between the two occurrences. That extra lunar month pushes the festival about twenty days later instead of eleven days earlier. It is the most common source of wrong festival dates online.
Do I need a separate muhurat to start something new?
No. The Akshaya Tritiya date and time impose no extra condition here, because this is one of the swayam-siddha days that need no additional muhurat for starting a venture, a marriage or a purchase. The formal Vishnu-Lakshmi puja, however, is still tied to the tithi.
Which deities do devotees worship on this day?
Families worship Lord Vishnu and Goddess Lakshmi together as Lakshminarayana. Parashurama Jayanti usually shares the same tithi. In coastal Andhra the day belongs to Sri Varaha Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy at Simhachalam.
Can I perform the puja without a priest?
Yes. A lamp, sandalwood paste, tulsi, flowers and a simple naivedyam are enough for a home ritual. Recite what your family normally recites, and complete a daana afterwards.
Is fasting compulsory on Akshaya Tritiya?
Fasting is optional and varies by family tradition. Most traditions accept a partial fast on fruit, milk and water. Anyone with a medical condition should consult a doctor first.
