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Tuesday, 26 December 2056

What matters on this day

Pausha Krishna Paksha until 1:05 PM

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise7:16 AM

Sunset5:27 PM

Nakshatra until 3:44 PM

Avoid 2:54 PM – 4:11 PM

Auspicious 12:01 PM – 12:42 PM

Angarki Sankashti ChaturthiSankashti The monthly Ganesha fast, broken after sighting the moon and offering arghya. The Chaturthi falling on a Tuesday is Angarki Sankashti and is kept more widely. Why today, and how to observe it →

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The rest of today

Inauspicious periods

2:54 PM – 4:11 PM

9:49 AM – 11:05 AM

12:21 PM – 1:38 PM

9:18 AM – 10:40 AM, 4:06 PM – 5:27 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

Moonrise9:30 PM

Moonset10:07 AM

Vishkumbha until 8:17 PM

Balava

Mangalavara

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