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Sunday, 18 January 2026

What matters on this day

Pausha Krishna Paksha until 1:21 AM, Jan 19

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise7:18 AM

Sunset5:44 PM

Nakshatra until 10:14 AM

Avoid 4:26 PM – 5:44 PM

Auspicious 12:10 PM – 12:52 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

4:26 PM – 5:44 PM

12:31 PM – 1:49 PM

3:08 PM – 4:26 PM

1:34 PM – 2:57 PM, 4:21 PM – 5:44 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

Moonrise6:45 AM

Moonset5:26 PM

Harshana until 9:11 PM

Chatushpada

Ravivara

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