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Sunday, 17 January 2027
What matters on this day
Pausha Shukla Paksha until 12:27 PM
New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change
Sunrise7:18 AM
Sunset5:43 PM
Nakshatra
until 10:42 PM
Avoid
4:25 PM – 5:43 PM
Auspicious
12:10 PM – 12:52 PM
No festival or vrat falls today for your region.
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Other traditions are observing something today; see below.
Observed elsewhere today
not in your regionComing up
- Pausha Putrada Ekadashi in 2 days Tue, 19 Jan
- Pradosh Vrat in 3 days Wed, 20 Jan
- Purnima in 5 days Fri, 22 Jan
The rest of today
Inauspicious periods
4:25 PM – 5:43 PM
12:31 PM – 1:49 PM
3:07 PM – 4:25 PM
1:33 PM – 2:56 PM, 4:20 PM – 5:43 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
Moonrise12:48 PM
Moonset1:34 AM
Sadhya until 12:23 PM
Kaulava
Ravivara
Your observances
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