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Tuesday, 5 January 2027
What matters on this day
Margashirsha Krishna Paksha until 8:40 PM
New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change
Sunrise7:18 AM
Sunset5:33 PM
Nakshatra
until 3:07 AM, Jan 06
Avoid
3:00 PM – 4:17 PM
Auspicious
12:05 PM – 12:46 PM
Masik Shivaratri
The monthly night of Shiva: a lighter form of the Maha Shivaratri observance, kept with a fast and worship in the nishita watch.
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Bhauma PradoshPradosh
The twice-monthly Shiva observance, kept in the ninety minutes around sunset with abhisheka and the Pradosha stotra.
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Coming up
The rest of today
Inauspicious periods
3:00 PM – 4:17 PM
9:52 AM – 11:09 AM
12:26 PM – 1:43 PM
9:21 AM – 10:43 AM, 4:11 PM – 5:33 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
Moonrise5:03 AM
Moonset3:38 PM
Ganda until 12:43 PM
Gara
Mangalavara
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