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Thursday, 15 April 2027

What matters on this day

Chaitra Shukla Paksha until 1:21 PM

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise6:00 AM

Sunset6:42 PM

Nakshatra until 9:33 AM

Avoid 1:56 PM – 3:32 PM

Auspicious 11:56 AM – 12:46 PM

Rama Navami The birth of Rama, at noon in Ayodhya. It closes Chaitra Navaratri. Kept with recitation of the Ramayana, a midday birth ceremony, and in many regions a procession. Why today, and how to observe it →

Observed elsewhere today

not in your region

Poila Boishakh Kept in Bengal (Bengali)

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The rest of today

Inauspicious periods

1:56 PM – 3:32 PM

6:00 AM – 7:35 AM

9:10 AM – 10:46 AM

12:46 PM – 2:28 PM, 5:01 PM – 6:42 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

Moonrise1:12 PM

Moonset2:08 AM

Dhriti until 8:23 AM

Kaulava

Guruvara

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