Krishna Janmashtami கிருஷ்ண ஜெயந்தி
Dates in the Tamil calendar, 2025–2028 (Chennai).
Next Krishna Janmashtami
Every year
| 2025 | Saturday, 16 August 2025 |
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| 2026 | Friday, 4 September 2026 |
| 2027 | Wednesday, 25 August 2027 |
| 2028 | Sunday, 13 August 2028 |
About the festival
Krishna Jayanthi, also called Gokulashtami or Janmashtami, celebrates the birth of Krishna, who is revered as an avatar of Vishnu.1,2
Many devotees fast, and worship is centred on midnight, the traditional hour of Krishna's birth, when an image of the infant Krishna is bathed, dressed and worshipped, followed by singing and sweets.2,3
In Tamil homes, small footprints of the infant Krishna are drawn with rice-flour paste from the threshold to the family shrine, representing his arrival into the house.2,4
When it falls: Krishna Jayanthi falls on Ashtami, the eighth day of the dark fortnight (Krishna Ashtami) of the lunar month Shravana in the amanta reckoning (Bhadrapada in the purnimanta reckoning), in August or September.1,2