लखनऊ पंचांग · Lucknow Panchang Monday, 28 September 2026 · Ashwin Krishna Dvitiya · Awadh
Sunrise in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh is 05:57 IST today — 15 minutes earlier than New Delhi, because the city sits at 80.95°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 · Sun 27 Sep | Krishna Pratipada | 21:04 |
| Today · Mon 28 Sep | Krishna Dvitiya | 19:20 |
| Tomorrow · Tue 29 Sep | Krishna Tritiya | 17:18 |
Today in Lucknow
Lucknow's Chhath is kept on the Gomti ghats at Jhulelal and Manakameshwar, and its two arghyas bracket the sunset and sunrise printed on this page on Kartik Shukla Shashthi and the morning after. Through Shravan, the Mankameshwar and Koneshwar temples run Monday queues that start well before the sunrise time on this page, in the Brahma Muhurta the local mahant will name rather than a clock hour.
Lucknow is running Ashwin Krishna Dvitiya today, which holds until 19:20. Keep anything you are starting fresh outside Rahu Kaal 07:27–08:57; the cleanest window of the day is Abhijit at 11:33–12:21.
This week in Lucknow
| Date | Tithi | Nakshatra | Rahu Kaal |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 28 Sep | Krishna Dvitiya | Revati | 07:27–08:57 |
| Tue 29 Sep | Krishna Tritiya | Ashwini | 14:56–16:26 |
| Wed 30 Sep | Krishna Chaturthi | Bharani | 11:56–13:26 |
| Thu 1 Oct | Krishna Panchami | Krittika | 13:25–14:55 |
| Fri 2 Oct | Krishna Shashthi | Mrigashira | 10:27–11:56 |
| Sat 3 Oct | Krishna Saptami | Ardra | 08:57–10:26 |
| Sun 4 Oct | Krishna Navami | Punarvasu | 16:21–17:50 |
Lucknow month calendars
Frequently asked questions
What time is sunrise in Lucknow today, and why does it differ from New Delhi?
Sunrise in Lucknow today is 05:57 IST and sunset is 17:57 IST — 15 minutes earlier than New Delhi. The cause is longitude, not the calendar: the whole country keeps one clock set to 82.5°E while Lucknow sits at 80.95°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 Lucknow, and does it change the tithi?
Awadh keeps the purnimanta month, so the fortnight after each full moon already belongs to the next month's name — the reason a Lucknow household calls the Janmashtami night Bhadrapada Krishna Ashtami while a Hyderabad one calls it Shravana Krishna Ashtami without either being wrong. The tithi on this page is the shared fact; the month name is the regional wrapper around it. Today the amanta reckoning calls this month Bhadrapada and the purnimanta reckoning calls it Ashwin; 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 Lucknow's actual coordinates (26.8467°N, 80.9462°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.