चंडीगढ़ पंचांग · Chandigarh Panchang Friday, 31 July 2026 · Shravana Krishna Dvitiya · the City Beautiful
Sunrise in Chandigarh, Chandigarh is 05:40 IST today — 2 minutes earlier than New Delhi, because the city sits at 76.78°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 | 21:15 |
| Today · Fri 31 Jul | Krishna Dvitiya | 22:20 |
| Tomorrow · Sat 1 Aug | Krishna Tritiya | 23:00 |
Today in Chandigarh
Baisakhi, the region's largest spring gathering, is not a tithi festival either: it falls on the Sun's entry into sidereal Mesha, which is why it holds to 13–14 April while Holi and Diwali wander. Chandigarh's own Rose Festival and the Sukhna ghats' Kartik Purnima deep-daan are the two dates on which the sunset time on this page is the one people actually plan around.
Chandigarh is running Shravana Krishna Dvitiya today, which holds until 22:20. Keep anything you are starting fresh outside Rahu Kaal 10:47–12:29; the cleanest window of the day is Abhijit at 12:02–12:57.
This week in Chandigarh
| Date | Tithi | Nakshatra | Rahu Kaal |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 31 Jul | Krishna Dvitiya | Dhanishta | 10:47–12:29 |
| Sat 1 Aug | Krishna Tritiya | Shatabhisha | 09:05–10:47 |
| Sun 2 Aug | Krishna Chaturthi | Purva Bhadrapada | 17:35–19:17 |
| Mon 3 Aug | Krishna Panchami | Uttara Bhadrapada | 07:24–09:05 |
| Tue 4 Aug | Krishna Shashthi | Revati | 15:52–17:34 |
| Wed 5 Aug | Krishna Saptami | Ashwini | 12:29–14:10 |
| Thu 6 Aug | Krishna Ashtami | Bharani | 14:10–15:51 |
Chandigarh month calendars
Frequently asked questions
What time is sunrise in Chandigarh today, and why does it differ from New Delhi?
Sunrise in Chandigarh today is 05:40 IST and sunset is 19:19 IST — 2 minutes earlier than New Delhi. The cause is longitude, not the calendar: the whole country keeps one clock set to 82.5°E while Chandigarh sits at 76.78°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 Chandigarh, and does it change the tithi?
Chandigarh takes the purnimanta month of Punjab and Haryana, but a large share of the region's religious dates are not on this calendar at all: Sikh Gurpurabs are fixed by the Nanakshahi calendar, a solar reckoning this site does not compute, and the page will not pretend otherwise. Where a Gurpurab is still kept lunar — Guru Nanak Jayanti on Kartik Purnima is the main one — the tithi on this page is the operative fact. 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 Chandigarh's actual coordinates (30.7333°N, 76.7794°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.