2024
Monday, 17 June 2024
In 2024 the tithi runs from 4:44 am on 17 Jun to 6:25 am on 18 Jun, so it is running at sunrise (the usual rule, called udaya tithi) on two days, Monday, 17 June 2024 and Tuesday, 18 June 2024. As in most almanacs, the first is taken.
2025
Friday, 6 June 2025
In 2025 the tithi runs from 2:16 am on 6 Jun to 4:48 am on 7 Jun; it is running at sunrise (the usual rule, called udaya tithi) on Friday, 6 June 2025, so that is the day of Nirjala Ekadashi.
How the date is fixed
Nirjala Ekadashi falls on the eleventh day of the bright half of the lunar month Jyeshtha (Shukla Ekadashi). The date is the day on which that tithi is running at sunrise (the usual rule, called udaya tithi).
About
Nirjala Ekadashi is the eleventh tithi of the bright half of Jyeshtha, in late May or June, at the height of the north Indian summer. The Puranas tell that Bhima, unable to fast twice a month, was told to keep this one Ekadashi without even water. As with all Ekadashis, the day is chosen so that the tithi is present at sunrise and free of Dashami at dawn (smarta rule), with the Vaishnava rule sometimes giving the following day. The parana, or breaking of the fast, is done in Dwadashi after sunrise the next morning.
How it is observed
A complete fast without water from sunrise to the next morning's parana, and charity of water-pots and fans.