Maha Shivaratri 2027 in Canada
Also called Mahashivratri, Shivratri.
Saturday, 6 March 2027
In India it is Saturday, 6 March 2027 — Canada observes a day earlier.
Canada does not observe on a single date this year. Cities far enough apart in longitude can fall either side of the tithi boundary — the table below gives the date for each. This is real, not a rounding artefact: the qualifying moment can sit minutes inside the window in one city and minutes outside it in another.
City by city
| City | Date | Nishita Puja |
|---|---|---|
| Toronto, Ontario | 6 March 2027 | 00:28 · 7 Mar |
| Brampton, Ontario | 6 March 2027 | 00:30 · 7 Mar |
| Mississauga, Ontario | 6 March 2027 | 00:30 · 7 Mar |
| Scarborough, Ontario | 6 March 2027 | 00:28 · 7 Mar |
| Ottawa, Ontario | 6 March 2027 | 00:14 · 7 Mar |
| London, Ontario | 6 March 2027 | 00:36 · 7 Mar |
| Calgary, Alberta | 6 March 2027 | 00:47 · 7 Mar |
| Edmonton, Alberta | 6 March 2027 | 00:45 · 7 Mar |
| Winnipeg, Manitoba | 6 March 2027 | 00:39 · 7 Mar |
| Montreal, Quebec | 6 March 2027 | 00:05 · 7 Mar |
| Vancouver, British Columbia | 5 March 2027 | 01:24 · 6 Mar |
| Surrey, British Columbia | 5 March 2027 | 01:22 · 6 Mar |
Times are local to each city, computed from its own coordinates and real UTC offset for that date — so daylight saving is already accounted for. For Maha Shivaratri, the puja falls at nishita — solar midnight, after the observance day, which is why the time above carries its own date — it falls after midnight, on the day shown beside it.
Why the date can differ from India
A tithi is a 12° step of the Moon's elongation from the Sun. It begins and ends at a single instant everywhere on Earth. What changes by location is whether the moment the rule points at — sunrise, sunset or moonrise — falls inside that window on a given local date. That is why the shift runs opposite to the timezone: places west of India can observe a day earlier, places east a day later.
Maha Shivaratri elsewhere:
Other festivals in Canada: