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Thursday, 16 July 2026
What matters on this day
Ashadha Shukla Paksha until 8:53 AM
New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change
Sunrise5:37 AM
Sunset7:16 PM
Nakshatra
until 7:52 PM
Avoid
2:09 PM – 3:51 PM
Auspicious
11:59 AM – 12:54 PM
Karka Sankranti (Dakshinayana Begins)
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Rath Yatra
The Puri chariot festival. Jagannath, Balabhadra and Subhadra leave the temple on three enormous chariots and are pulled by the crowd to the Gundicha temple, where they stay nine days before returning.
Why today, and how to observe it →
Observed elsewhere today
not in your regionComing up
- Shukla Shashti in 3 days Sun, 19 Jul
- Masik Durgashtami in 5 days Tue, 21 Jul
- Devshayani Ekadashi in 9 days Sat, 25 Jul
The rest of today
Inauspicious periods
2:09 PM – 3:51 PM
5:37 AM – 7:20 AM
9:02 AM – 10:44 AM
12:54 PM – 2:43 PM, 5:27 PM – 7:16 PM
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Moon, and the five limbs
Moonrise7:26 AM
Moonset9:01 PM
Siddhi until 1:22 AM, Jul 17
Kaulava
Guruvara
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