Panchang / Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Daily panchang

Kolkata, West Bengal, India · Wednesday, 20 Jan 2027

Pausha, shukla · Tithi 13

Moonrise and moonset are for the calendar day (midnight to midnight) at this place. The Moon comes up about 50 minutes later each day, so on some dates it does not rise, or does not set, within that day. A dash then means the event falls on the neighbouring day.

The five limbs

Muhurta classifications from the classical muhurta literature (Muhurta Chintamani and the Panchang tradition). These are selection rules, not predictions.

Day periods

• Sunrise 06:18
• Sunset 17:16

• Traditionally avoided
• Traditionally favoured

Sun and muhurtas

The day at a glance

Day length (dinamana)

10 h 57 min

Night length (ratrimana)

13 h 2 min

Midday (madhyahna)

11:47

Disha shool — direction to avoid for travel

North

Sunrise is taken when the upper edge of the Sun clears the horizon, allowing for atmospheric refraction — the convention of the Drik panchang. Almanacs that use the centre of the Sun can differ by two to four minutes.

More of the day

Moon sign

Gemini

Sun sign

Capricorn

Nakshatra pada

Mrigashira pada 3 · until 10:58
Mrigashira pada 4 · until 16:17
Ardra pada 1 · until 21:35
Ardra pada 2 · until 02:52 (21 Jan 2027)
Ardra pada 3

Sun's nakshatra

Uttara Ashadha pada 3

Anandadi yoga

Amrita · until 16:17
then Musala

Shaka samvat

1948 Parabhava

Vikram samvat

2083 Siddharthi

Gujarati samvat

2083 Kalayukta

Ritu (by lunar month)

Hemanta

Ritu (by the Sun's season)

Shishira

Ayana (sidereal)

Uttarayana

Ayana (by the solstices)

Uttarayana

Chandra vasa (Moon's direction)

West

Rahu vasa (Rahu's direction)

South-west

Jovian year (Brihaspati samvatsara)

Raudra · until 16:15 (17 Apr 2027)

The Shaka year changes at Chaitra shukla pratipada and the Gujarati year at Kartika shukla pratipada, the day after Diwali. The two ritus differ because one follows the lunar month and the other the Sun's actual season.

Chandrabalam and Tarabalam

For your OWN birth rashi or nakshatra: the day favours you when it is listed. The Moon's sign is counted from your rashi (1st, 3rd, 6th, 7th, 10th, 11th are good) and its nakshatra from yours in groups of nine (Sampat, Kshema, Sadhana, Mitra, Parama mitra are good).

Chandrabalam for

Aries, Gemini, Leo, Virgo, Sagittarius, Capricorn
Ashtama Chandra (Moon 8th) for: Scorpio

Tarabalam for · until 16:17

Bharani, Rohini, Ardra, Punarvasu, Ashlesha, Purva Phalguni, Hasta, Swati, Vishakha, Jyeshtha, Purva Ashadha, Shravana, Shatabhisha, Purva Bhadrapada, Revati

Tarabalam for · until the next sunrise

Ashwini, Krittika, Mrigashira, Punarvasu, Pushya, Magha, Uttara Phalguni, Chitra, Vishakha, Anuradha, Mula, Uttara Ashadha, Dhanishta, Purva Bhadrapada, Uttara Bhadrapada

The sidereal sign rising in the east through the day, from the one rising at sunrise. Panchaka rahita cuts the day wherever the lagna, tithi or nakshatra changes and adds the four (with the weekday): remainders 1, 2, 4, 6 and 8 mark the five panchakas, any other is free of them.

Choghadiya

The night sequence starts at a different point in the cycle from the day one, which is why the two are tabulated separately rather than one being derived from the other.

Gowri panchangam

The Tamil reckoning divides the same eight parts of the day and names them differently. It is a separate table, not a translation - the two disagree about which part of the day is favourable.

Hora

Twenty-four horas from sunrise, in the Chaldean order. They are UNEQUAL - the twelve day horas divide daylight and the twelve night horas divide darkness - so a summer day hora runs longer than an hour and its night hora shorter. The first hora of any day belongs to that day's own lord, which is where the weekday names come from.

Festivals and observances

Pradosh — the evening of the thirteenth, for Shiva