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Thursday, 15 January 2026
What matters on this day
Pausha Krishna Paksha until 8:17 PM
New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change
Sunrise7:19 AM
Sunset5:42 PM
Nakshatra
until 5:47 AM, Jan 16
Avoid
1:48 PM – 3:06 PM
Auspicious
12:09 PM – 12:51 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.
Other traditions are observing something today; see below.
Observed elsewhere today
not in your region- Magh Bihu (Bhogali Bihu) Kept in Assam (Assamese)
- Vasi Uttarayan Kept in Gujarat (Gujarati)
- Pongal / Thai Pongal Kept in Tamil Nadu (Tamil)
Coming up
- Masik Shivaratri tomorrow Fri, 16 Jan
- Pradosh Vrat tomorrow Fri, 16 Jan
- Amavasya in 3 days Sun, 18 Jan
The rest of today
Inauspicious periods
1:48 PM – 3:06 PM
7:19 AM – 8:37 AM
9:54 AM – 11:12 AM
12:51 PM – 2:14 PM, 4:18 PM – 5:42 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
Moonrise4:14 AM
Moonset2:51 PM
Vriddhi until 8:38 PM
Taitila
Guruvara
Your observances
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