Panchang in Thazhecode, Kerala Wed 15 Jan 2031

The Sun enters Makara at 21:51 Tue, in the night after sunset (18:20 Tue). The Dharmasindhu then puts the punya kala on the next day: Wed 15 Jan.

Makar Sankranti: every date in Thazhecode

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 240°–252° is the 21st, Krishna Shashthi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:49 here. Panchami ended at 07:04 Tue, before it. Shashthi ends at 07:10, when the lead reaches 252°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 8 Jan, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Saptami began at 07:10 and ended at 06:43 Thu, between the sunrises of 06:49 and 06:49 Thu. Wednesday reads Shashthi and Thursday reads Ashtami: Saptami is a kshaya tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 07:15, came after Shashthi ended at 07:10: this day reads Saptami.

Thazhecode · IST

Sunrise here, 06:49, came before Shashthi ended at 07:10: this day reads Shashthi. Saptami ends at 06:43 Thu, before the next sunrise, so no day here reads Saptami: it is kshaya.

The night of Tue 14 Jan ran from sunset 18:20 Tue to sunrise 06:49, 12 h 29 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 49 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:49 to 18:21, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 26 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:21 to 06:49 Thu, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 33 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′. Hasta spans 160°00′–173°20′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 160°. It leaves at 03:01 Thu, for Chitra.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 270.4° + 162.2° = 432.6°, one full turn and 72.6°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 66°40′–80°00′ is the 6th, Atiganda. It ends at 19:21, then Sukarma.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Shashthi is Garaja and the second Vanija. Garaja ended at 19:11 Tue, when the lead reached 246°; Vanija runs until 07:10.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:49 to 06:49 Thu, so the hours after midnight still belong to Budhawara.

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: Dhanu gives Pausha. The Sun enters Makara on 14 Jan, inside the month. The next new moon, 23 Jan, finds it in Makara and begins Magha.

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 23 Jan, with the Sun in Makara, begins Magha. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Magha here, and Pausha in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 3 Apr 2030, 03:32 Wed. Since then the Sun has moved 281.5° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2087; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1952.