भोपाल पंचांग · Bhopal Panchang Friday, 31 July 2026 · Shravana Krishna Dvitiya · the City of Lakes
Sunrise in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh is 05:50 IST today — 8 minutes later than New Delhi, because the city sits at 77.41°E on a clock set for 82.5°E. Every reading below is taken at that sunrise, which is the traditional anchor, so the boundary times here can differ by minutes from an almanac typeset for another meridian.
Today at a glance
Tithi timeline
| Day | Tithi | Ends |
|---|---|---|
| Yesterday · Thu 30 Jul | Krishna Pratipada | 21:16 |
| Today · Fri 31 Jul | Krishna Dvitiya | 22:20 |
| Tomorrow · Sat 1 Aug | Krishna Tritiya | 23:00 |
Today in Bhopal
The unfinished Bhojpur Shivling, half an hour from the city, draws its largest mela on exactly that Chaturdashi, and the queue there is timed by the nishita window near local midnight rather than by the daytime hours this page tabulates. Bhopal also keeps Kartik Purnima at the Upper Lake ghats, where the deep-daan is floated after the sunset printed on this page.
Bhopal is running Shravana Krishna Dvitiya today, which holds until 22:20. Keep anything you are starting fresh outside Rahu Kaal 10:48–12:27; the cleanest window of the day is Abhijit at 12:00–12:53.
This week in Bhopal
| Date | Tithi | Nakshatra | Rahu Kaal |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 31 Jul | Krishna Dvitiya | Dhanishta | 10:48–12:27 |
| Sat 1 Aug | Krishna Tritiya | Shatabhisha | 09:09–10:48 |
| Sun 2 Aug | Krishna Chaturthi | Purva Bhadrapada | 17:23–19:02 |
| Mon 3 Aug | Krishna Panchami | Uttara Bhadrapada | 07:30–09:09 |
| Tue 4 Aug | Krishna Shashthi | Revati | 15:44–17:22 |
| Wed 5 Aug | Krishna Saptami | Ashwini | 12:26–14:05 |
| Thu 6 Aug | Krishna Ashtami | Bharani | 14:05–15:43 |
Bhopal month calendars
Frequently asked questions
What time is sunrise in Bhopal today, and why does it differ from New Delhi?
Sunrise in Bhopal today is 05:50 IST and sunset is 19:03 IST — 8 minutes later than New Delhi. The cause is longitude, not the calendar: the whole country keeps one clock set to 82.5°E while Bhopal sits at 77.41°E, and every degree is worth about four minutes of sky. Everything on this page — the tithi and nakshatra readings, Rahu Kaal, Yamaganda, Gulika and the Choghadiya split — is anchored to that local sunrise rather than to a Delhi almanac's.
Which lunar-month system does this page use for Bhopal, and does it change the tithi?
Bhopal keeps the purnimanta month common to Madhya Pradesh, so Maha Shivaratri lands in what a local almanac calls Phalguna Krishna Chaturdashi while a Nashik or Bengaluru panchang files the identical night under Magha. The tithi and its end time — the only figures that decide when a jalabhishek may be offered — are the same in both books. Today the amanta reckoning calls this month Ashadha and the purnimanta reckoning calls it Shravana; the tithi is the same number in both. If you were quoted a date in the amanta system, the day is still the same day.
What this page cannot tell you
This is a panchang, not a birth chart. The tithi, nakshatra, yoga, karana and kaal windows above are the same for everyone standing in this city today; none of them knows your Moon sign, your running dasha, or the lagna that would rise at the hour you pick. Several observances also follow a rule this page does not apply — Janmashtami is settled at midnight, Diwali at pradosh, some ekadashi vratas by their parana window — so a temple's announced date can sit a day either side of the tithi marked here. Where that matters, check against your own family almanac; a disagreement between two panchangs is usually a difference of convention, not of fact.
How these timings were computed
Sunrise and sunset come from a NOAA solar-position model applied to Bhopal's actual coordinates (23.2599°N, 77.4126°E), not to a district centroid or a state capital. Tithi, nakshatra, yoga and karana are read at that same local sunrise from a sidereal ephemeris using the Lahiri ayanamsa, and their end times are found by bisection to about a minute. Rahu Kaal, Yamaganda and Gulika are the weekday-selected eighths of the real daylight span, which is why they move through the year instead of sitting at a fixed clock hour. Nothing on this page is copied from a printed almanac.