Times below are calculated for New Delhi because you haven't told us where you are yet. Sunrise, moonrise and every muhurta window move with location — often by more than an hour. Set your location and tradition →

● Back to today · November 1956 calendar

Friday, 2 November 1956

What matters on this day

Ashwin Krishna Paksha until 10:13 PM

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise6:37 AM

Sunset5:31 PM

Nakshatra until 3:40 AM, Nov 03

Avoid 10:42 AM – 12:04 PM

Auspicious 11:42 AM – 12:26 PM

AmavasyaAmavasya The monthly new moon: the day for ancestral offerings — tarpana and where kept, shraddha. Mahalaya Amavasya in Ashvina is the year's principal one. Why today, and how to observe it →

Coming up

The rest of today

Inauspicious periods

10:42 AM – 12:04 PM

2:48 PM – 4:09 PM

7:59 AM – 9:21 AM

10:59 AM – 12:26 PM, 2:37 PM – 4:04 PM

These are periods traditionally avoided for starting something. They do not move a festival — an observance fixed by its own rule stays where the rule puts it. More →

Moon, and the five limbs

Moonrise5:58 AM

Moonset5:23 PM

Priti until 10:01 AM

Chatushpada

Shukravara

See the complete panchang for this day →

Your observances

Nothing saved yet. Saved vrats and family dates arrive with accounts in the next phase; for now the vrat calendar lists every recurring observance with its upcoming dates, and every festival page has a calendar subscription link.