Telugu calendar 2026–27 and panchangam

How the Telugu calendar is reckoned

The Telugu calendar (Andhra Pradesh, Telangana) is lunisolar and amanta: each month begins with Shukla Padyami, the day after Amavasya, and ends on the next Amavasya, so Shukla paksha comes first and Krishna (bahula) paksha second. North India’s purnimanta month changes at Purnima, so in Krishna paksha the northern month is one ahead: Diwali’s Amavasya is Ashwayuja Amavasya in the Telugu calendar and Kartik Amavasya in the North.

The year begins on Chaitra Shukla Pratipada, kept as Ugadi. Years are counted in the Shaka era (Shaka + 78 gives the Gregorian year in which it begins) and named from a cycle of 60 samvatsaras: 2026–27 is Parabhava (number 40 in the cycle) and 2027–28 Plavanga (number 41).

When two new moons fall while the Sun stays in one rashi, the month between them is adhika (extra, also called Purushottam) and the regular month of the same name follows. In 2026 Adhik Jyeshtha ran from 17 May 2026 to 15 June 2026; 2027–28 has no adhika month.

All dates and times are for Hyderabad. A tithi or nakshatra changes at the same moment all over India; sunrise, sunset and Rahu kalam move by a few minutes in other cities, and when a tithi changes close to sunrise its day can now and then differ by one. Ask your purohit for the sankalp of a vrat.

1. Drik Panchang (drikpanchang.com): Telugu month panchangam (telugu-month-panchanga.html), Hyderabad, every month from March 2026 to April 2028; each day’s month, tithi, nakshatra, sunrise, sunset, samvat and festivals; read 18 October 2026
2. Telugu names: Drik Panchang’s panchangam in Telugu script (lang=te) and the Telugu Wikipedia articles "తెలుగు నెలలు" and "తిథి" (for Drik’s బాధ్రపదము and షష్టి the correct spellings భాద్రపదము and షష్ఠి are used)
3. SanatanBodh panchang calculation (astronomy-engine, Lahiri ayanamsha), Hyderabad; amanta month at sunrise; agrees with Drik every day: tithi and month on every day, sunrise, sunset and Rahu kalam within a minute, tithi end 1–2 minutes later
4. Robert Sewell and Shankar Balkrishna Dikshit, The Indian Calendar (London, 1896): amanta and purnimanta months, adhika masa, Chaitradi and Kartikadi years

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