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Thursday, 14 January 2027
What matters on this day
Pausha Shukla Paksha until 1:59 PM
New Delhi ¡ purnimanta reckoning ¡ change
Sunrise7:19 AM
Sunset5:41 PM
Nakshatra
until 11:19 PM
Avoid
1:47 PM â 3:05 PM
Auspicious
12:09 PM â 12:50 PM
Makar Sankranti
The day the Sun begins its northward course. Observed as a harvest festival across almost the whole subcontinent under a dozen different names, with bathing in rivers, sesame-and-jaggery sweets, charity, and in several regions kite-flying and cattle honouring.
Why today, and how to observe it â
Shukla ShashtiShashti
The monthly observance of Kartikeya. The Kartika Skanda Shashti is the annual six-day form, concluding in the Soorasamharam.
Why today, and how to observe it â
Observed elsewhere today
not in your regionComing up
- Masik Durgashtami in 2 days Sat, 16 Jan
- Pausha Putrada Ekadashi in 5 days Tue, 19 Jan
- Pradosh Vrat in 6 days Wed, 20 Jan
The rest of today
Inauspicious periods
1:47 PM â 3:05 PM
7:19 AM â 8:36 AM
9:54 AM â 11:12 AM
12:50 PM â 2:13 PM, 4:18 PM â 5:41 PM
These are periods traditionally avoided for starting something. They do not move a festival â an observance fixed by its own rule stays where the rule puts it. More â
Moon, and the five limbs
Moonrise10:59 AM
Moonset11:35 PM
Parigha until 5:22 PM
Taitila
Guruvara
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