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Wednesday, 1 January 2025
What matters on this day
Pausha Shukla Paksha until 2:24 AM, Jan 02
New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change
Sunrise7:18 AM
Sunset5:31 PM
Nakshatra
until 11:46 PM
Avoid
12:24 PM – 1:41 PM
Auspicious
— Abhijit Muhurta not considered on Wednesday
Chandra Darshan
The evening on which the new moon's crescent is first seen after Amavasya, low in the west shortly after sunset. Seeing it is held to be auspicious, and in many households the day's fast is broken only after the sighting.
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New Year's DayNational holiday
The first day of the Gregorian year. Widely marked socially; it is not the new year of any of the Indian calendrical reckonings.
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Coming up
- Shukla Shashti in 4 days Sun, 5 Jan
- Masik Durgashtami in 6 days Tue, 7 Jan
- Pausha Putrada Ekadashi in 9 days Fri, 10 Jan
The rest of today
Inauspicious periods
12:24 PM – 1:41 PM
8:34 AM – 9:51 AM
11:08 AM – 12:24 PM
1:26 PM – 2:47 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
Moonrise8:15 AM
Moonset7:05 PM
Vyaghata until 5:06 PM
Balava
Budhavara
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