# Hanuman Jayanti 2027 -- Date, Significance & How It's Celebrated > Hanuman Jayanti falls on Tuesday, 20 April 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/hanuman-jayanti - **Language**: en --- 1. [Home](https://merirashi.com/en) 2. / 3. [Festivals](https://merirashi.com/en/festivals) 4. / 5. Hanuman Jayanti Hindu Festivals 2027 - Lunar (tithi) observance ## Hanuman Jayanti 2027 Tuesday, 20 April 2027 ![](https://merirashi.com/_next/image?url=%2Fimages%2Ffestivals%2Fhanuman-jayanti.png&w=3840&q=85) When is Hanuman Jayanti in 2027? Hanuman Jayanti falls on **Tuesday, 20 April 2027** -- Chaitra Purnima -- the full moon of the month of Chaitra, the date on which most of North India observes Hanuman's birth (South India follows a different regional calendar tradition for the same occasion). Purnima - Shukla Paksha chitra nakshatra Sunrise 06:02 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 ## Hanuman Jayanti dates: 2026 & 2027 Exact verified dates for each covered year, with the computed tithi for the day. | Year | Date | Tithi | Status | | ---- | ----------------------- | ----------------------- | -------- | | 2026 | Thursday, 02 April 2026 | Purnima - Shukla Paksha | Past | | 2027 | Tuesday, 20 April 2027 | Purnima - Shukla Paksha | Upcoming | Overview ## What Hanuman Jayanti marks Hanuman Jayanti celebrates the birth of Hanuman, the monkey-faced deity revered for his strength, devotion, and unwavering service to Rama, on the full moon of Chaitra -- a date most widely observed across North India, though South India marks his birth on a separate date under its own regional calendar tradition. Hanuman occupies an unusual place in Hindu devotion: he is worshipped less as a distant, all-powerful god and more as the ideal devotee, a figure whose entire identity is defined by selfless service (seva) to another. Temples dedicated to him are visited by people seeking strength, courage, and protection from difficulty, and the Hanuman Chalisa, a forty-verse hymn to him, is among the most widely recited texts in Hindu practice, chanted far beyond this single day. Significance ## Mythology & meaning Hanuman's birth is told in the Ramayana and various Puranas as the son of Anjana, an apsara born to earthly life under a curse, and Kesari, a vanara chieftain, with Vayu, the wind god, credited as his divine father -- a parentage said to give Hanuman both Anjana's grace and Vayu's speed and strength. A well-loved episode from his infancy recounts young Hanuman, mistaking the rising sun for a ripe fruit, leaping up to seize it in his mouth; the resulting cosmic disturbance led Indra, king of the gods, to strike him with his thunderbolt (vajra), injuring his jaw -- the likely origin of the name Hanuman, "one with a disfigured jaw." Alarmed at his son's injury, Vayu withdrew his breath from the world until the gods relented and showered the child with boons of invulnerability, strength, and near-immortality, making Hanuman one of the small number of figures in Hindu tradition considered a Chiranjeevi, an immortal who remains present in the world today. Hanuman's defining role, though, comes later in the Ramayana, where he serves as Rama's most devoted aide during the search for the abducted Sita: he leaps across the ocean to Lanka, finds Sita held captive in Ravana's Ashoka Vatika, delivers Rama's ring as proof of his mission, and, when captured and set alight by Ravana's court, uses his own burning tail to set fire to the city before returning unharmed. Later, when Lakshmana is gravely wounded in battle, Hanuman is dispatched to fetch the Sanjeevani herb from a Himalayan mountain and, unable to identify the specific plant, carries the entire mountain back to the battlefield rather than risk delay -- an episode frequently cited as the clearest single image of his selfless devotion outweighing any concern for his own dignity or ease. This total, unconditional devotion to Rama -- bhakti without calculation -- is what devotees hold up as Hanuman's central teaching, more than his strength alone: he is worshipped less as a god to be bargained with and more as a model of what devoted service looks like. Rituals ## How it's celebrated Temples dedicated to Hanuman hold special aartis and abhishekam from early morning, often applying sindoor (vermilion) to his idol, a custom tied to a story in which Hanuman, seeing Sita apply sindoor to her hair for Rama's long life, covered his entire body in it out of devotion. Devotees offer laddus (especially besan or boondi laddus), bananas, and betel leaves, and recitation of the Hanuman Chalisa, individually or in group readings, runs through temples and homes across the day. Many devotees observe a day-long fast, broken only after the main puja, and some undertake a reading of the Sundara Kanda, the book of the Ramayana recounting Hanuman's journey to Lanka, in the days leading up to Jayanti. Akhara (traditional wrestling gymnasium) communities, for whom Hanuman is patron deity of strength and physical discipline, mark the day with particular devotion, since he is invoked before wrestling and martial exercise as an embodiment of controlled, purposeful power rather than mere physical force. Processions carrying decorated Hanuman idols are common in many North Indian towns, accompanied by devotional singing. Since Hanuman is worshipped as a remover of fear, obstacles, and evil influence, some devotees also visit on this day specifically seeking relief from anxiety or difficult circumstances, though it's worth being direct that this is a matter of personal faith and comfort rather than a guaranteed remedy -- the day's core observance, a simple prayer, the Chalisa, and an offering, is available to anyone regardless of what they're going through. Children are often told the story of Hanuman's boyhood leap at the sun as part of the day's household storytelling, alongside the more devotional adult-focused recitations. In some temples, particularly larger ones, the day includes a symbolic re-enactment of small scenes from the Sundara Kanda for visiting families, making the story more accessible to children too young to follow a full recitation. Many devotees chant the Bajrang Baan, a shorter and more urgent prayer than the Chalisa, when seeking Hanuman's protection in a moment of specific difficulty, and some akharas mark the day with demonstrations of traditional wrestling and gymnastic exercise performed in his honour, treating physical training itself as a form of devotional practice rather than a separate pursuit. Across India ## Regional variations Same festival, many names North India, including Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and Delhi, observes Hanuman Jayanti on Chaitra Purnima, the date used here. South India -- Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and parts of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh -- instead marks Hanuman's birth on a different date, typically in the month of Margashirsha, following a distinct regional calendar tradition and set of stories about his birth; this isn't a disagreement so much as two separate, long-standing regional observances of the same figure. Maharashtra sometimes observes an additional Hanuman Jayanti-linked festival period spanning several days around Chaitra Purnima rather than a single day. Rajasthan's Salasar Balaji and Mehandipur Balaji temples, both major Hanuman pilgrimage sites, see especially large crowds on this date. Telangana and Andhra Pradesh's own Hanuman temples, including the region's well-known Anjaneya temples, mark the day within the North Indian dating convention despite lying geographically closer to the South Indian tradition. ## Frequently asked questions When is Hanuman Jayanti in 2027? Hanuman Jayanti falls on Tuesday, 20 April 2027, Chaitra Purnima -- the full moon of Chaitra, as observed across most of North India. When is Hanuman Jayanti in 2026? Hanuman Jayanti falls on Thursday, 2 April 2026, Chaitra Purnima -- the full moon of Chaitra, as observed across most of North India. Why does South India celebrate Hanuman Jayanti on a different date? South India -- including Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and parts of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh -- follows its own regional calendar tradition and set of birth stories, typically marking the occasion in the month of Margashirsha rather than on Chaitra Purnima. It reflects two separate, long-standing regional observances of the same figure rather than a disagreement over facts. What is the story behind Hanuman's name? As an infant, Hanuman is said to have leapt to seize the rising sun, mistaking it for a fruit; Indra struck him with a thunderbolt to stop him, injuring his jaw. "Hanuman" is widely read as "one with a disfigured jaw," referencing this injury, after which the gods granted him boons of strength and near-immortality to console his father, Vayu. Why is sindoor applied to Hanuman's idol? The custom is tied to a story in which Hanuman saw Sita apply sindoor to her hair as a gesture for Rama's long life, and, wanting to express the same devotion many times over, covered his own entire body in it -- which is why devotees today apply sindoor to his idols as an offering. What is the Sanjeevani mountain story? When Lakshmana was gravely wounded in the war against Ravana, Hanuman was sent to fetch the Sanjeevani herb from a distant Himalayan mountain. Unable to identify the specific plant, he carried the entire mountain back to the battlefield rather than risk delay -- an episode widely cited as the clearest image of his selfless devotion. Why is Hanuman associated with strength and wrestling? Hanuman is worshipped as the embodiment of controlled, purposeful strength rather than raw physical force, which is why traditional wrestling gymnasiums (akharas) across North India treat him as their patron deity and invoke him before training and competition. 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