🪷 कुम्भ सङ्क्रान्ति · Kumbha Saṅkrānti

📅 When is Kumbha Saṅkrānti?

YearDateDay
20252025-02-13Thursday
2026 (this year)2026-02-13Friday
20272027-02-13Saturday
Sun enters Aquarius; Kumbha-māsa begins.
Associated deity: Sūrya Bhagavān

Tradition

Tradition: Pan-Hindu

Vrata: No

How the day is decided

The civil day on which the Sun enters Kumbha.

Source: the saṅkrānti by the Sūrya Siddhānta's Sun. Computed on the Sūrya Siddhānta's sunrise, tithi and Moon at Ujjayinī (a city's page uses that city's sunrise).

Detection Rule (Pure Pañchāṅga-Based)

{
  "sun_rashi_ingress": "Kumbha"
}
Precedence: 5 (lower = higher priority on multi-festival days)
Engine: Festival catalogue runs at request time over the Sūrya-Siddhānta substrate's pañchāṅga output

Sources and Connected Observances

Continue from this festival’s dates, significance, observance, detection rule, and textual witnesses to its day pages, related corpus passages, festival calendar, Pañchāṅga references, Bindu, and philosophy. Textual witnesses remain citation-level references until their complete source passages are available locally.

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