Ekadashi 2026: Full List with Dates, Names and Parana Time

2026-08-26

Twenty-four Ekadashi names in classical order, eight of them with engine-computed 2026 dates from Kamika on 9 August to Dev Uthani on 20 November — each with its parana window, the Hari Vasara rule, and an honest note on what we could not compute.

This page is meant to be kept open, not read once. It lists the twenty-four Ekadashis of the classical cycle in order, gives exact tithi timings for every 2026 Ekadashi our engine can compute, and explains the parana rule well enough that you can work out the rest yourself.

One thing before the tables. Our engine holds computed data for 30 July to 24 November 2026. Inside that window, every date, tithi timing and sunrise below is read straight from it. Outside it you get the name, month and paksha only. Eight dates you can trust beat twenty-four you cannot.

The eight Ekadashis we can compute for 2026

Each is dated by the standard rule: the vrat is kept on the day the Ekadashi tithi is present at sunrise.

All timings Delhi / IST, read from the engine and rounded to the nearest minute, not estimated. A tithi begins and ends at the same instant everywhere; what changes by city is the sunrise it is measured against — and that is what moves a vrat by a day.

What parana actually is

Parana is the act of ending the fast, and it is not an afterthought — a fast broken at the wrong moment counts as an incomplete vrat. Four conditions govern it:

• Parana is done after sunrise on the day after the vrat, never at night.
• It should fall within Dwadashi tithi. If Dwadashi ended before that sunrise, break the fast after sunrise anyway.
• The first quarter of Dwadashi is Hari Vasara; parana is not done during it. Wait for it to pass.
• Where there is room, the forenoon is preferred and madhyahna is avoided.

Parana timings for the eight computed dates

One distinction matters. Sunrise times and Dwadashi moments are engine-measured; the Hari Vasara column is derived by us — a quarter of that Dwadashi's own length added to its start. Arithmetic on measured numbers, not a separate measurement. Where the window is wide, take parana in the forenoon.

Dev Uthani Ekadashi 2026: the tithi that misses both sunrises

Look at the last row of the first table. Kartika Shukla Ekadashi begins 07:14 on Friday 20 November and ends 06:30 on Saturday 21 November. Delhi sunrise on the 20th is 06:48 — twenty-six minutes before it starts; on the 21st, 06:49, nineteen minutes after it ends. The tithi touches neither sunrise.

So the sunrise test gives no answer, and a raw tithi table prints "Dashami" against 20 November — which is why people will argue about this date. The older rule resolves it: when Ekadashi lies wholly between two sunrises, the vrat is kept on the day the tithi actually occupies. That is Friday 20 November 2026, which is what our engine flags. Parana falls Saturday 21 November after 12:07, the day the engine also marks Tulsi Vivah.

If your family panchang places it on the 21st, follow that. We are showing what the calculation says and why two answers exist, not asking you to change your practice.

The full cycle: twenty-four names in order

The cycle runs from Chaitra, two to a lunar month, twenty-four in an ordinary year.

Rows 9 to 16 are engine-computed. The rest are named from the classical month-and-paksha mapping, which never varies; only their 2026 dates fall outside our window — use the daily panchang. In an adhik maas year two more names, Padmini and Parama, join the list and the count becomes twenty-six.

Purnimant and Amanta: same name, different month label

Our engine uses the Purnimant reckoning of north India, where the month ends at Purnima and Krishna paksha comes first. Under the Amanta reckoning of the Deccan and the south, the month ends at Amavasya, so the same Kamika Ekadashi is labelled Ashadha Krishna. The name and the date are identical; only the month label moves. If a southern calendar disagrees with the month column above, that is why.

Why two panchangs can put an Ekadashi on different days

Three causes. First, the sunrise test: a tithi beginning minutes either side of sunrise flips the answer for a city further east or west. Second, the Vaishnava avoidance of a dwadashi-viddha Ekadashi, which pushes the fast a day later when the tithi spans two sunrises. Third, the rare case above. None is an error — they are different rules applied honestly to the same sky. Our tithi page gives the raw moments, so you can check any claimed date yourself.

Delhi timings are not your city's timings

Every clock time here is Delhi's, read from the engine. The city comparisons in this paragraph are not: Kolkata's sunrise runs roughly half an hour earlier, Mumbai's and Ahmedabad's about half an hour later, and moonrise shifts similarly — those are rough estimates from longitude, not engine readings, so treat them as a direction rather than a time. Tithi moments do not move — 06:30 on 21 November is 06:30 across India — but the parana window is bounded by your sunrise. Before a narrow window like Kamika's 05:48 to 08:01, check your own city.

What the texts promise, and what they do not

The vrat belongs to Vishnu, and the phalashruti attached to each name — Kamika's freedom from sin, Papankusha's release from the fruit of wrong action, Devutthana's waking of the Lord from yoga nidra — comes from the Puranas as devotional promise, not as mechanism. The texts do not explain why the eleventh tithi carries this weight, and neither will we. Pages offering a digestive or lunar-gravitational reason for the grain restriction are inventing one; the shastra gives none. For the traditional reasoning that does exist, see why rice is avoided on Ekadashi and why Ekadashi comes every fifteen days.

Fast to the degree your health allows. Nirjala is one option, not a requirement, and the tradition itself exempts the ill, the elderly, the pregnant and the very young.