Panchang in Sofia, Sofia-Capital, Bulgaria Thu 27 Feb 2025

Amavasya follows the tithi at sunrise. Amavasya runs from 05:25 on Thu 27 Feb to 02:44 on Fri 28 Feb, so it holds sunrise only on Thu 27 Feb, at 07:05. No text giving Amavasya’s time was found; sunrise is Tithika’s convention.

Amavasya: every date in Sofia

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 348°–360° is the 30th, Krishna Amavasya. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 07:05 here. Chaturdashi ended at 05:25, before it. Amavasya ends at 02:44 Fri, when the lead reaches 360°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 12 Feb, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 06:48, came before Chaturdashi ended at 08:55: this day reads Chaturdashi. Amavasya ends at 06:14 Fri, before the next sunrise, so no day here reads Amavasya: it is kshaya.

Sofia · UTC+2

Sunrise here, 07:05, came after Chaturdashi ended at 05:25: this day reads Amavasya.

The night of Wed 26 Feb ran from sunset 18:12 Wed to sunrise 07:05, 12 h 53 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 51 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:05 to 18:13, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 23 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:13 to 07:04 Fri, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 36 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′. Dhanishtha spans 293°20′–306°40′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 303°20′. It leaves at 12:13, for Shatabhisha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 314.6° + 303.6° = 618.2°, one full turn and 258.2°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 253°20′–266°40′ is the 20th, Shiva. It ends at 20:10, then Siddha.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Amavasya is Chatushpada and the second Nagava. Chatushpada runs until 16:07, when the lead reaches 354°; Nagava until 02:44 Fri.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:05 to 07:04 Fri, so the hours after midnight still belong to Guruwara.

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: Makara gives Magha. The Sun enters Kumbha on 12 Feb, inside the month. The next new moon, 28 Feb, finds it in Kumbha and begins Phalguna.

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 28 Feb, with the Sun in Kumbha, begins Phalguna. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Phalguna here, and Magha in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 8 Apr 2024, 21:20 Mon. Since then the Sun has moved 319.4° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2081; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1946.