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Tuesday, 16 June 2026

What matters on this day

Jyeshtha Shukla Paksha until 12:52 AM, Jun 17

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise5:27 AM

Sunset7:16 PM

Nakshatra until 4:12 PM

Avoid 3:49 PM – 5:32 PM

Auspicious 11:54 AM – 12:49 PM

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. Why today, and how to observe it →

Observed elsewhere today

not in your region

Basi Raja Kept in Odisha (Odia)

Coming up

The rest of today

Inauspicious periods

3:49 PM – 5:32 PM

8:54 AM – 10:38 AM

12:21 PM – 2:05 PM

8:13 AM – 10:03 AM, 5:25 PM – 7:16 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

Moonrise6:24 AM

Moonset8:47 PM

Vriddhi until 12:34 AM, Jun 17

Balava

Mangalavara

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