Ekadashi fast
Yogini Ekadashi 2027: date, parana time and vrat katha
योगिनी एकादशी
Yogini Ekadashi 2027 is on Wednesday, June 30 in Washington DC (Smarta rule). Break the fast on Thursday, July 1, between 5:46 and 8:44 AM.
Eat between 5:46 and 8:44 AM on Thursday, July 1.
- Fast
Wednesday, June 30, 2027
Washington DC. Smarta and Vaishnava agree.
- Break the fast
Thursday, July 1, 2027, 5:46–8:44 AM
Smarta rule.
Same date in India (New Delhi).
Vaishnava parana: Thu 1 Jul, 5:46–8:45 AM.
Why this time
Break the fast after sunrise, within pratahkala (the first fifth of the day).
Smarta rule: fast on the day Ekadashi prevails at sunrise (Dashami at sunrise spoils the day).
The fast day
The day in Washington DC
- Sunrise: 5:46 AM
- Ekadashi ends: 11:01 AM, then Dwadashi
- Abhijit muhurat: 12:42 to 1:41 PM. Many panchangs do not use Abhijit on Wednesdays. Abhijit and Rahu Kaal overlap from 1:11 PM to 1:41 PM.
- Rahu Kaal: 1:11 to 3:03 PM
- Sunset: 8:37 PM
- Pradosh (after sunset): 8:37 to 10:27 PM
- Next sunrise: 5:46 AM +1 day
- Nakshatra: Bharani until 11:31 AM
- Nakshatra: Krittika until 10:01 AM, 1 Jul
Tomorrow, Thursday, July 1: Break the fast
A tithi is a lunar day. It ends when the Moon gains another 12° on the Sun, at the same instant everywhere, so the clock time differs by city.
A tithi is a lunar day. It ends when the Moon gains another 12° on the Sun, at the same instant everywhere, so the clock time differs by city.
The nakshatra is the Moon’s place among the 27 star groups.
The nakshatra is the Moon’s place among the 27 star groups.
One of eight equal parts of the daytime, set by the weekday. Many families avoid starting new work in it. It is a calendar fact, not a prediction.
The eighth of fifteen equal parts of the daytime, around local noon. Many panchangs do not use Abhijit on Wednesdays. Abhijit and Rahu Kaal overlap from 1:11 PM to 1:41 PM.
The first part of the night after sunset. Evening pujas such as Lakshmi Puja follow it.
Break the fast after sunrise, within pratahkala (the first fifth of the day).
Yogini Ekadashi is on Wednesday, June 30, 2027 in Washington DC (Smarta rule). Break the fast on Thursday, July 1, 2027, 5:46 AM – 8:44 AM.
Words on this page
- Paksha: Shukla and Krishna
- Half of a lunar month. In Shukla paksha, the bright half, the Moon grows. In Krishna paksha, the dark half, it wanes.
- Smarta rule and Vaishnava rule
- Two traditions' rules for the day of a festival or a fast. When they give different days, our pages show both and name each rule.
- Parana
- Breaking a fast at the time its rule allows. For Ekadashi: on the next day, after sunrise and Hari Vasara, before Dwadashi ends.
- Hari Vasara
- The first quarter of the Dwadashi tithi. The Ekadashi fast is not broken in it.
- Arunodaya
- The dawn before sunrise. In the Vaishnava Ekadashi rule, the 96 minutes (four ghatikas) before sunrise.
Jyeshtha Krishna in the amanta calendar; Ashadha Krishna in the purnimanta calendar
Yogini is the Ekadashi of the dark half of Ashadha (Jyeshtha in the amanta calendar), in the heat before the rains. Its story is about a gardener in Kubera's city who forgot his duty, and was made whole again by this fast.
Written for Pujadeep and checked against the sources listed. See the sources
When it falls
Next for Washington DC: Wednesday, June 30, 2027. Parana: Thursday, July 1, 2027, 5:46 AM – 8:44 AM. Other cities can differ. Every Ekadashi of 2027 by city.
The story
In the city of Alaka lived Kubera, king of the yakshas and a devoted worshipper of Shiva. His gardener, the yaksha Hemamali, had the task of bringing fresh flowers each day from the Manasa lake for Kubera's worship. Hemamali loved his wife Vishalakshi dearly. One day he brought the flowers but stayed at home with her, and forgot to take them to the king.
Kubera waited at midday for his worship, but no flowers came. When he learned why, he was angry and cursed Hemamali: he would suffer a disease of the skin and be parted from his wife. At once Hemamali fell from that place, ill and alone.
He wandered until he reached the ashram of the sage Markandeya in the Himalaya. He bowed and told the sage the truth, hiding nothing. Markandeya was pleased with his honesty and told him to keep the Ekadashi of the dark half of Ashadha, called Yogini. Hemamali kept it, and his body was made whole again, and he was happy once more. The text says that this fast is worth as much as feeding eighty-eight thousand brahmins; that is the text's own claim, told here as its claim.
Fasting is a choice. Anyone who is pregnant, nursing, diabetic, unwell, elderly or on regular medicine should talk to a doctor before fasting.
Where the story comes from
- Padma Purana, Uttara Khanda, chapter 54, in the Anandashrama Sanskrit Series edition (Padmapuranam, part 4, Uttara Khanda, edited by V. N. Mandlik; Poona: Anandashrama Press, 1894; title page, leaf n5). An anonymous Sanskrit text: public domain. Read on the page images and retold in our own words. (chapter 54, pp. 1359–1361 (leaves n141–n143))
Sources
- Ekadashi name and month: the Pujadeep calendar's table of Ekadashi names.
- Padma Purana, Uttara Khanda, Anandashrama edition (Poona, 1894), chapter 54. (pp. 1359–1361 (leaves n141–n143))
Questions families ask
When do I break the Ekadashi fast?
Breaking the fast is called parana. For Yogini Ekadashi in Washington DC: Thursday, July 1, 2027, 5:46 AM – 8:44 AM. Break the fast after sunrise, within pratahkala (the first fifth of the day).
Why can the Smarta and Vaishnava dates differ?
Each tradition has its own rule. Smarta rule: fast on the day Ekadashi prevails at sunrise (Dashami at sunrise spoils the day). Vaishnava rule (Gaudiya): Ekadashi prevails from arunodaya (96 minutes before sunrise) through sunrise. How we compute dates
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Source and licence
- Our explanation
- Written for this site from the sources listed here, and checked against them. Free to quote with credit.
- Checked
- Checked against the sources listed, October 14, 2026.
- Updated
- October 15, 2026