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Wednesday, 14 January 2026
What matters on this day
Pausha Krishna Paksha until 5:53 PM
New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change
Sunrise7:19 AM
Sunset5:41 PM
Nakshatra
until 3:03 AM, Jan 15
Avoid
12:30 PM – 1:47 PM
Auspicious
— Abhijit Muhurta not considered on Wednesday
Shattila EkadashiEkadashi
The fortnightly fast of Vishnu. Twenty-four in an ordinary year, twenty-six when an adhika masa falls, each with its own name and katha.
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Makar Sankranti
The day the Sun begins its northward course. Observed as a harvest festival across almost the whole subcontinent under a dozen different names, with bathing in rivers, sesame-and-jaggery sweets, charity, and in several regions kite-flying and cattle honouring.
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Observed elsewhere today
not in your region- Makaravilakku Kept in Kerala (Malayalam)
- Uruka (Bhogali Bihu Eve) Kept in Assam (Assamese)
- Bhogi Kept in Tamil Nadu (Tamil)
Coming up
- Masik Shivaratri in 2 days Fri, 16 Jan
- Pradosh Vrat in 2 days Fri, 16 Jan
- Amavasya in 4 days Sun, 18 Jan
The rest of today
Inauspicious periods
12:30 PM – 1:47 PM
8:36 AM – 9:54 AM
11:12 AM – 12:30 PM
1:32 PM – 2:55 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
Moonrise3:21 AM
Moonset2:07 PM
Ganda until 7:55 PM
Balava
Budhavara
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