Ratha Saptami 2027 Date
Ratha Saptami 2027 is on Saturday, 13 February 2027, on Sapthami tithi.
Dates are for India (IST). Tithi timings for your city are on the Ratha Saptami page.
About Ratha Saptami
On this day Surya is said to turn his seven-horse chariot toward the north, and a pre-dawn river bath is rated as cleansing as the moment of a solar eclipse. Falling on Magha Shukla Saptami, it is also kept as Surya Jayanti, the Sun's birthday.
The 'ratha' in the name is Surya's chariot, pulled by seven horses that are read as the seven colours of light or the seven chakras of the body. The signature ritual is the Arunodaya Snan — a bath taken in the four ghatis (about ninety minutes) before sunrise, ideally in a river or canal rather than at home. Because this bath is held to keep illness away, the day is also called Arogya Saptami, the seventh of good health. After bathing, devotees offer Arghya by tipping water from a small kalash with folded hands, standing and facing the rising sun. Charity on this day is rated as meritorious as gifts made during a solar eclipse, which is why fasts, donations and tarpana for ancestors cluster here. At Tirumala, the TTD takes Sri Malayappa Swami out on seven different vahanams across a single day.
