2025
- Monday, 27 January 2025 · Masik Shivaratri
- Wednesday, 26 February 2025 · Masik Shivaratri
- Thursday, 27 March 2025 · Masik Shivaratri
- Saturday, 26 April 2025 · Masik Shivaratri
- Sunday, 25 May 2025 · Masik Shivaratri
- Monday, 23 June 2025 · Masik Shivaratri
- Wednesday, 23 July 2025 · Masik Shivaratri
- Thursday, 21 August 2025 · Masik Shivaratri
- Friday, 19 September 2025 · Masik Shivaratri
- Sunday, 19 October 2025 · Masik Shivaratri
- Tuesday, 18 November 2025 · Masik Shivaratri
- Thursday, 18 December 2025 · Masik Shivaratri
2026
- Friday, 16 January 2026 · Masik Shivaratri
- Sunday, 15 February 2026 · Masik Shivaratri
- Tuesday, 17 March 2026 · Masik Shivaratri
- Wednesday, 15 April 2026 · Masik Shivaratri
- Friday, 15 May 2026 · Masik Shivaratri
- Saturday, 13 June 2026 · Adhika Masik Shivaratri
- Sunday, 12 July 2026 · Masik Shivaratri
- Tuesday, 11 August 2026 · Masik Shivaratri
- Wednesday, 9 September 2026 · Masik Shivaratri
- Thursday, 8 October 2026 · Masik Shivaratri
- Saturday, 7 November 2026 · Masik Shivaratri
- Monday, 7 December 2026 · Masik Shivaratri
How the date is fixed
The Krishna Chaturdashi of every lunar month. The date is the day on which that tithi is running at the middle of the night (halfway from sunset to the next sunrise). Dark-half entries carry both month names: purnimanta (North India) and amanta.
About
Masik Shivaratri is the fourteenth tithi of the dark half of every lunar month, the night before the new moon. Like Maha Shivaratri it is a night observance, so the day whose middle of the night (nishita) carries Chaturdashi is chosen, even when the tithi is absent at sunrise. The one in amanta Magha (Phalguna in the north) is Maha Shivaratri itself, and the one in Shravana as North India counts it is often called Sawan Shivaratri. Each entry shows its month in both reckonings, since North India names the dark half one month ahead.
How it is observed
A fast through the day and worship of Shiva at night, with abhisheka of the linga.