Satuain · Satua Sankranti Festival The day the Sun crosses into Mesha, kept in Mithila by eating sattu, the flour of parched barley and gram, with gur and raw mango.
Satuain · Satua Sankranti 2027 falls on Wednesday, 14 April, computed for Chennai.
The name
The same day, in every language that has a word for it
- English
- Satuain · Satua Sankranti
- मैथिली
- सतुआइन
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
Mithila calendar, computed for Chennai
- Wednesday, 14 April 2027
- Thursday, 13 April 2028
- Friday, 13 April 2029
Where Satuain · Satua Sankranti falls on the solar year, and how far the date moves between occurrences.
- 2027: 14 Apr
- 2028: 13 Apr
- 2029: 13 Apr
The dates, year by year
Mithila calendar, computed for Chennai
| Year | Satuain · Satua Sankranti |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Sunday, 13 April 2025 |
| 2026 | Tuesday, 14 April 2026 |
| 2027 | Wednesday, 14 April 2027 |
| 2028 | Thursday, 13 April 2028 |
| 2029 | Friday, 13 April 2029 |
| 2030 | Sunday, 14 April 2030 |
| 2031 | Monday, 14 April 2031 |
| 2032 | Tuesday, 13 April 2032 |
| 2033 | Wednesday, 13 April 2033 |
| 2034 | Friday, 14 April 2034 |
| 2035 | Saturday, 14 April 2035 |
| 2036 | Sunday, 13 April 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 day the Sun crosses into Mesha, kept in Mithila by eating sattu, the flour of parched barley and gram, with gur and raw mango. It is the day the panchang prints the new Shaka year on, the day the month of Vaishakha baths opens, and the day Aryabhata is remembered. A pot of water is given with a fan and an umbrella to a brahmin or to anyone on the road, because the heat begins here. The sattu is eaten cold and uncooked, which is the whole point of it.
- Deity
- Surya
- Kind
- Festival Days of celebration: the house is decorated, a feast is cooked and the temple is visited.
The hour
Clock times for Wednesday, 14 April 2027 at Chennai
The sunrise to sunrise day in which the Mesha sankranti falls, whatever the hour; an ingress between midnight and sunrise belongs to the day before by this reckoning.
| Instant | Time | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Sunrise | 05:57 | the udaya tithi, the tithi running as the sun comes up |
Sunrise 05:57, sunset 18:22, 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. Sattu with gur, raw mango and curd is the meal, eaten cold, and the first water of the year is given away rather than drunk.
Where the regions differ
Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh keep the same day as Satuani; Mithila follows it with Jur Sital the next morning, which the rest of Bihar does not.
The dates above are the Mithila 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.
Fixing a day for it
The muhurtham rules that go with this festival
A temple visit, or the first darshan at a new temple. No weekday is ruled out: Tuesday belongs to Murugan and the Amman, Saturday to Perumal and Sani, so the day usually follows the deity rather than the almanac. Ashtami and Chaturdasi are the two tithis held back for darshan, with the standing exceptions of Sivaratri on Krishna Chaturdasi and Kala Bhairava Ashtami, which are kept on those very days. Rahu kaal, Yamaganda and Gulika kaal are not scored here; the panchangam page prints them for the day you pick, and most families simply wait them out.
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.