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📅 When is Onam (Vāmana / King Bali)?

YearDateDay
20252025-09-05Friday
2026 (this year)2026-08-26Wednesday
20272027-09-12Sunday
Kerala festival; King Bali's annual return to Kerala. Aligned with Thiru-Onam (Śravaṇa nakshatra in Bhādrapada).
Associated deity: Vāmana + King Bali

Tradition

Tradition: Regional

Vrata: No

How the day is decided

The Śravaṇa nakṣatra at sunrise, with the Sun in Siṃha.

Source: the nakṣatra at sunrise, by the Sūrya Siddhānta's Moon. 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)

{
  "nakshatra_name": "Śravaṇa",
  "sun_rashi": "Siṃha"
}
Precedence: 2 (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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