Panchang in Same, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania Tue 24 Feb 2026

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 84°–96° is the 8th, Shukla Ashtami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:36 here. Saptami ended at 04:32, before it. Ashtami ends at 02:22 Wed, when the lead reaches 96°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 17 Feb, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 06:51, came before Saptami ended at 07:02: this day reads Saptami. Ashtami ends at 04:52 Wed, before the next sunrise, so no day here reads Ashtami: it is kshaya.

Same · UTC+3

Sunrise here, 06:36, came after Saptami ended at 04:32: this day reads Ashtami.

The night of Mon 23 Feb ran from sunset 18:48 Mon to sunrise 06:36, 11 h 48 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 47 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:36 to 18:48, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 31 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:48 to 06:36 Wed, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 28 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The fixed stars divide the Moon's path into 27 nakshatras of 13°20′, each in 4 padas of 3°20′. Krittika spans 26°40′–40°00′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 33°20′. It leaves at 12:37, for Rohini.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 311.3° + 36.4° = 347.7°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 346°40′–360°00′ is the 27th, Vaidhriti. It ends at 01:56 Wed, then Vishkambha.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Ashtami is Vishti and the second Bava. Vishti runs until 15:27, when the lead reaches 90°; Bava until 02:22 Wed.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:36 to 06:36 Wed, so the hours after midnight still belong to Mangalawara.

An amanta month runs from new moon to new moon and takes its name from the rashi the Sun is in at the new moon that begins it: Kumbha gives Phalguna. The Sun enters Meena on 14 Mar, inside the month. The next new moon, 19 Mar, finds it in Meena and begins Chaitra.

A purnimanta month runs from full moon to full moon, so its waning half comes first. It shares its name with the amanta month that its second half falls in: the new moon of 17 Feb, with the Sun in Kumbha, began Phalguna. This Shukla paksha reads Phalguna in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 29 Mar 2025, 13:57 Sat. Since then the Sun has moved 326.5° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2082; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1947.