# Attukal Pongala 2027 -- Date, Significance & How It's Celebrated > Attukal Pongala falls on Monday, 22 February 2027. Exact dates for 2026 and 2027, the real mythology, honest rituals and regional variations, plus the computed panchang for the day -- no fear-selling. - **Canonical URL**: https://merirashi.com/en/festivals/attukal-pongala - **Language**: en --- 1. [Home](https://merirashi.com/en) 2. / 3. [Festivals](https://merirashi.com/en/festivals) 4. / 5. Attukal Pongala Hindu Festivals 2027 - Regional calendar observance ## Attukal Pongala 2027 Monday, 22 February 2027 ![](https://merirashi.com/_next/image?url=%2Fimages%2Ffestivals%2Fattukal-pongala.png&w=3840&q=85) When is Attukal Pongala in 2027? Attukal Pongala falls on **Monday, 22 February 2027** -- The Pongala offering is held on the principal day of the Attukal Bhagavathy Temple's annual Malayalam-month programme; the temple's published schedule is final. Dwitiya - Krishna Paksha purva-phalguni nakshatra Sunrise 06:54 AM Panchang computed live from the sidereal (Lahiri) ephemeris at Ujjain, the classical Hindu reference meridian -- not a stored guess. [Check today's Panchang & muhurat](https://merirashi.com/en/panchang)[All 2027 festival dates](https://merirashi.com/en/festivals) Dates ## Attukal Pongala dates: 2026 & 2027 Exact verified dates for each covered year, with the computed tithi for the day. | Year | Date | Tithi | Status | | ---- | ------------------------ | ------------------------ | -------- | | 2026 | Tuesday, 03 March 2026 | Purnima - Shukla Paksha | Past | | 2027 | Monday, 22 February 2027 | Dwitiya - Krishna Paksha | Upcoming | Dates ## Attukal Pongala 2027 schedule Verified civil dates for each named stage. Use your city's Panchang for the exact puja, moonrise or parana time. 1. Sunday, 14 February 2027Temple festival begins 2. Monday, 22 February 2027Attukal Pongala offering 3. Tuesday, 23 February 2027Ten-day festival concludes Overview ## What Attukal Pongala marks Attukal Pongala is a vast women-led devotional gathering centred on the Attukal Bhagavathy Temple in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. On the Pongala day, streets and courtyards around the temple become rows of temporary hearths where women cook a sweet rice offering in earthen pots. The event is part of a longer temple festival, but the public cooking day is its defining moment. Its scale is remarkable; its deeper significance is the temporary community built through shared space, food, heat and patient cooperation. Significance ## Mythology & meaning Attukal Bhagavathy is widely identified with Kannaki, the heroine of the Tamil epic Silappatikaram, as well as with forms of Bhadrakali. Local tradition remembers the temple as a place where the goddess rested on her journey and received hospitality. Pongala reverses and renews that hospitality: devotees prepare food for the goddess, then receive it back as prasadam. The gathering is frequently described as one of the world's largest congregations of women, but its meaning should not be reduced to a record claim. Generations of women organise travel, ingredients, hearths and neighbourhood cooperation, making the event a living institution of female public religious agency. Rituals ## How it's celebrated Participants arrive with an earthen pot, rice, jaggery, coconut and fuel, mark out a safe hearth, and wait for the temple signal that begins cooking. The sweet pongala is later blessed and taken home. Anyone attending should follow police, fire-service and temple instructions, keep emergency lanes open, use only authorised cooking areas, carry water and sun protection, and avoid synthetic clothing close to open flame. Visitors who cannot join in person may prepare a small offering at home after checking the temple broadcast and schedule. Crowd safety is part of the observance, not separate from it. Across India ## Regional variations Same festival, many names The temple festival is specifically rooted in Thiruvananthapuram and follows the Malayalam calendar. Smaller Bhagavathy temples and Malayali communities may hold pongala offerings elsewhere, but their dates need not match Attukal. The temple can adjust programme details, traffic zones and permissible hearth areas; its current notice always overrides a general calendar page. ## Frequently asked questions When is Attukal Pongala in 2027? The observance runs from Sunday, 14 February 2027 to Tuesday, 23 February 2027, with the principal day on Monday, 22 February 2027\. The Pongala offering is held on the principal day of the Attukal Bhagavathy Temple's annual Malayalam-month programme; the temple's published schedule is final. Exact tithi, moonrise and puja timings must be checked for your city or the organising temple. When is Attukal Pongala in 2026? The observance runs from Monday, 23 February 2026 to Wednesday, 4 March 2026, with the principal day on Tuesday, 3 March 2026\. The Pongala offering is held on the principal day of the Attukal Bhagavathy Temple's annual Malayalam-month programme; the temple's published schedule is final. Exact tithi, moonrise and puja timings must be checked for your city or the organising temple. Who may participate in Attukal Pongala? The public hearth offering is historically and overwhelmingly women-led. Other devotees support logistics and worship according to temple guidance. What is cooked for Pongala? The characteristic offering is sweet rice cooked with jaggery and coconut in an earthen pot; ingredient details can vary by family. Why should the temple schedule override this page? It is an organised temple event with real-time crowd, traffic and ritual instructions. 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