Ugadi / Telugu New Year உகாதி
Dates in the Tamil calendar, 2025–2028 (Chennai).
Next Ugadi / Telugu New Year
Every year
| 2025 | Sunday, 30 March 2025 |
|---|---|
| 2026 | Thursday, 19 March 2026 |
| 2027 | Wednesday, 7 April 2027 |
| 2028 | Monday, 27 March 2028 |
About the festival
Ugadi (Yugadi) is the Hindu new-year festival of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Karnataka; in Maharashtra and Goa the same day is observed as Gudi Padwa.1,2
Customary observances include an oil bath, new clothes, rangoli designs, mango-leaf torana decorations and a temple or community reading of the new year's almanac (panchanga sravanam).1,2
A signature dish, ugadi pachadi, mixes neem flowers, jaggery, tamarind, raw mango and other flavours; in Karnataka a neem-and-jaggery mixture called bevu-bella is also eaten on the day.1,2
When it falls: Ugadi falls on Chaitra Shukla Pratipada, the first day of the bright fortnight of Chaitra (March–April), which begins the year in the amanta (new-moon-ending) lunar calendar followed in these states.1,2