Kalki Jayanti as it was kept in 2024.
Next date: 7 August 2027Kalki Jayanti 2024
Saturday, 10 August 2024, in Ahmedabad
Birth anniversaryGujarati · Hindu
Panchang on the day
10
Saturday
Waxing Sixth
until 05:45 next day

Virgo
- પPa
- ઠTha
- ણNa
- Sunrise
- 06:13
- Sunset
- 19:16
- Moonrise
- 10:57
- Nakshatra
- Chitra
- until 05:48 next day
- Yoga
- Sadhya
- until 14:51
- Karana
- Kaulava
- until 16:31
- Rahu Kalam 09:29 to 11:06
- Yamaganda 14:22 to 16:00
- Abhijit muhurat 12:18 to 13:11
Why this date
Shravan Waxing Sixth, taken at sunrise
Runs from 10 Aug 03:14 IST to 11 Aug 05:45 IST.
In short
Kalki Jayanti is a Jayanti observed according to the Hindu calendar. Its date and customary practices can vary by region and local Panchang.
The story
Kalki Jayanti is dedicated to Kalki, the future avatar of Vishnu. Unlike festivals remembering a birth believed to have happened already, it anticipates an event that has not yet taken place in the traditional account. The Bhagavata Purana and Vishnu Purana describe the declining moral order at the close of Kali Yuga and the promised arrival of Kalki. He is associated with Shambhala and Vishnuyasha's family, and is expected to end destructive rule and prepare the renewal of dharma.
Kalki is commonly portrayed as a warrior with a sword and a white horse. Different texts and works of art present details differently. The account forms part of the cyclical Hindu vision of time, in which a period of disorder gives way to renewal; it is not a dated, historically verified prediction of an imminent event. It would be inaccurate to call the festival the anniversary of Kalki's completed birth.
Devotees may pray to Vishnu, recite hymns and reflect on truthfulness, justice and moral restoration. Some calendars associate this observance with Shravan Shukla Shashthi, as the current database does, but the date is a worship convention whose regional authority needs further examination. The narrative is meaningful without fabricating accounts of Kalki having already appeared.
Why it matters
Kalki Jayanti is valued for devotion, family tradition and the spiritual or seasonal meaning attached to the day.
What people do
Worship Vishnu, recite devotional texts and reflect on ethical renewal without claiming Kalki has already appeared.
Told differently elsewhere
Shravan Shukla Shashthi is a calendar convention used by some communities, not a universally verified avatar birth date.
Questions people ask
- When is Kalki Jayanti in 2024?
- On Saturday, 10 August 2024 in India. Runs from 10 Aug 03:14 IST to 11 Aug 05:45 IST.
- Why does the date change every year?
- It is kept by the lunar calendar, so its day on the civil calendar moves from year to year.
- Is the date the same everywhere?
- Yes. It is kept everywhere on the day it falls on in India.

Dates in the coming years
- 2027Saturday, 7 AugustShravan Sud 6
- 2028Thursday, 27 JulyShravan Sud 6
- 2029Wednesday, 15 AugustShravan Sud 6
- 2030Monday, 5 AugustShravan Sud 6
- 2031Friday, 25 JulyShravan Sud 6
Last kept18 August 2026





