Hareli Festival The first festival of the Chhattisgarhi year, and a farmer's day entirely.
Hareli 2027 falls on Monday, 2 August, computed for Chennai.
The name
The same day, in every language that has a word for it
- English
- Hareli
- हिन्दी
- हरेली
Only the names actually in use are listed. A blank script is not an omission: the day may simply not be kept there, or be kept under a different festival's name.
Asia/Kolkata · UTC+5:30
The date of a festival depends on the place: a tithi that ends at dusk in Chennai can still be running at dusk a thousand kilometres west, which moves the day. Sunrise and sunset here are computed for the place above.
When it falls next
Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh calendar, computed for Chennai
- Monday, 2 August 2027
- Saturday, 22 July 2028
- Friday, 10 August 2029
Where Hareli falls on the solar year, and how far the date moves between occurrences.
- 2027: 2 Aug
- 2028: 22 Jul
- 2029: 10 Aug
The dates, year by year
Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh calendar, computed for Chennai
| Year | Hareli |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Thursday, 24 July 2025 |
| 2026 | Wednesday, 12 August 2026 |
| 2027 | Monday, 2 August 2027 |
| 2028 | Saturday, 22 July 2028 |
| 2029 | Friday, 10 August 2029 |
| 2030 | Tuesday, 30 July 2030 |
| 2031 | Saturday, 19 July 2031 |
| 2032 | Friday, 6 August 2032 |
| 2033 | Tuesday, 26 July 2033 |
| 2034 | Monday, 14 August 2034 |
| 2035 | Friday, 3 August 2035 |
| 2036 | Wednesday, 23 July 2036 |
Worked out for Chennai, Lahiri ayanamsa. A date is a function of the place: set yours above and the next three come back for where you are.
What the day is
The first festival of the Chhattisgarhi year, and a farmer's day entirely. The sowing is finished by it, so the plough and all the iron of the field are washed, stood in the courtyard and honoured there, and the gurhaua chila, a pancake of rice flour and jaggery, is offered to them and to the bullocks before anybody in the house eats one. The village lohar brings a nail to every door, and a branch of bhelwa or a bunch of neem leaves is fixed above it and at the cattle shed, to keep disease off the house and the herd through the monsoon. The children are given the gedi, stilts of bamboo, and walk the village on them from this day until Pola.
- Deity
- Thakur Dev, Shiva, Bhoomi
- Kind
- Festival Days of celebration: the house is decorated, a feast is cooked and the temple is visited.
The hour
Clock times for Monday, 2 August 2027 at Chennai
Shravana Amavasya at sunrise in the purnimanta reckoning the region keeps, which an amanta almanac calls the Ashadha Amavasya. It falls before the Shravana full moon and not after it.
| Instant | Time | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Sunrise | 05:55 | the udaya tithi, the tithi running as the sun comes up |
Sunrise 05:55, sunset 18:36, UTC+5.5. These are the instants the rule is read at, not the temple's own puja times, which every temple prints for itself.
The fast
No fast is kept. The chila is the whole eating of the day, offered first to the plough and the bullocks and then eaten by the house.
Where the regions differ
Chhattisgarh keeps it as its own and gazettes it, and the Chhattisgarhi districts of Odisha and Madhya Pradesh keep it with them. The north keeps the same new moon as Hariyali Amavasya and plants a tree on it, and the Tulu coast keeps it as Aati Amavasye with the medicinal kashaya.
The dates above are the Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh reckoning, because that is the calendar this key belongs to. Switch the tradition on the calendar page to see how another one dates the same day.
Every date here is computed from the Sun and Moon for the place entered, by the rule printed beside it. A printed panchangam can differ by a day where an almanac reads a tithi at a different instant, and a family's own custom always comes first. Where the practice genuinely varies, the text says so rather than choosing for you.