Days Until Tamil New Year

This live countdown shows how many days are left until the next Tamil New Year, known as Puthandu or Varusha Pirappu. It marks the first day of the Tamil month of Chithirai and, as a solar festival, it falls on 14 April almost every year (very occasionally 13 or 15 April). This page tracks the correct upcoming date and refreshes automatically each time you open it, then rolls forward to the next year once the day has passed.

Because it always points to the very next Puthandu, you can bookmark it and it will stay accurate year after year. A clear number of days helps with the preparations: arranging the kanni — an auspicious tray of fruit, gold, and money viewed first thing in the morning — cooking the traditional mango pachadi that blends sweet, sour, and bitter flavours, decorating the doorway with kolam, and planning family visits to the temple.

The result shows which weekday the coming Tamil New Year falls on, which helps with planning leave and travel. The figure is anchored to today's date and computed in a timezone-safe way, so it reads the same wherever you are, and everything runs privately in your browser.

To use it, just read the number — the days until Tamil New Year appear automatically. On the day itself the page tells you Puthandu is here rather than showing a countdown, and you can point the picker at any other date to count toward a different occasion. The upcoming Puthandu dates it uses are 14 April 2027, 14 April 2028, and 14 April 2029.

For the Tamil harvest festival in January, the days until Pongal page counts down the same way, and the days until date calculator counts toward any date you choose.

The countdown is the number of whole days from today to the next Tamil New Year (Puthandu), taken from a list of verified festival dates and calculated at UTC midnight so it is timezone-safe. Once the upcoming Puthandu has passed, the page automatically targets the next date in the list. On the day itself the count is zero.