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Thursday, 12 May 2011
What matters on this day
Vaishakha Shukla Paksha until 10:58 AM
New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change
Sunrise5:36 AM
Sunset6:58 PM
Nakshatra
until 7:55 AM
Avoid
1:57 PM – 3:38 PM
Auspicious
11:50 AM – 12:44 PM
No festival or vrat falls today for your region.
That is a real answer, not a gap — most days of the year are ordinary days,
and a calendar that always has something to sell you is not a calendar.
Coming up
- Pradosh Vrat in 3 days Sun, 15 May
- Purnima in 5 days Tue, 17 May
- Sankashti Chaturthi in 9 days Sat, 21 May
The rest of today
Inauspicious periods
1:57 PM – 3:38 PM
5:36 AM – 7:16 AM
8:57 AM – 10:37 AM
12:44 PM – 2:31 PM, 5:11 PM – 6:58 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
Moonrise1:34 PM
Moonset1:49 AM
Dhruva until 7:21 AM
Kaulava
Guruvara
Your observances
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