July 2026 Panchang Calendar — Lucknow
Every tithi and nakshatra below is the one in force at Lucknow's own sunrise on that date — Awadh sits at 80.95°E, so a day can carry a different tithi here than in a calendar computed for another meridian when a boundary falls near dawn. The lunar month is labelled by the purnimanta convention this city uses.
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Lunar months spanned | Shravana–Ashadha |
| Earliest sunrise | 05:16 |
| Latest sunrise | 05:30 |
| Longest day | 828 minutes |
| Shortest day | 805 minutes |
| Ekadashi days | 1 |
| Purnima / Amavasya | 1 / 1 |
| Mornings whose tithi differs from New Delhi | 1 |
Sunrise in Lucknow moves from 05:16 on the 1st to 05:30 on the 31st, and sunset from 19:04 to 18:55 — the day shortens by 23 minutes across July, which drags every kaal window and every Choghadiya slot with it.
On 1 of the 31 mornings this month, the tithi standing at Lucknow's sunrise is NOT the one standing at New Delhi's — a boundary falls between the two dawns. That is the whole reason this page is computed separately rather than reprinted.
The two times under each date are that morning's sunrise at Lucknow and the start of that day's Rahu Kaal, which is the eighth of real daylight assigned to Rahu on that weekday. Both move with the city, not just with the date: they are what a calendar computed for another meridian gets wrong even on the days it agrees about the tithi.
How far the nearest other sky is
Of the other cities computed on this site, the closest to Lucknow by sunrise is Varanasi, 264 km away, where sunrise runs up to 11.4 minutes from this one. Over the 365 mornings behind this calendar the tithi differs on 2 of them — a boundary falling between the two dawns. That is a small number and it is the whole argument: on those mornings a calendar reprinted from Varanasi would be wrong here, and there is no way to know which mornings without computing both.
Everything on this page is read at Lucknow's own sunrise, from its own coordinates — 26.85°N 80.95°E — so it is not the nearest city's calendar with a name changed on it.
Observances in July 2026
| Date | Observance | Tithi it is fixed to | What the day is |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 July | Rath Yatra | Ashadha Shukla Dvitiya | The Puri and Ahmedabad chariot processions; Bhubaneswar keeps its own rath on a different tithi in Chaitra. |
| 25 July | Devshayani Ekadashi | Ashadha Shukla Ekadashi | Chaturmas begins; the four months in which the classical texts bar most new beginnings. |
| 29 July | Guru Purnima | Ashadha Shukla Purnima | Vyasa Purnima — the teacher's full moon, and the start of the monsoon retreat. |
Why the month is named what it is here
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.
How a festival lands on a date
None of the dates above is stored. Each observance is held here as the rule that defines it — a lunar month, a fortnight and a tithi — and resolved against the computed panchang for Lucknow each time this calendar is rebuilt, which is why the same festival moves through the Gregorian year and why two adjacent cities can differ by a day. The lunar month name follows the purnimanta reckoning; the intercalary adhika masa, which repeats a month name roughly every thirty-two months, is detected and its festivals are attributed to the regular month rather than the leap one.
A day is marked by the tithi standing at sunrise. Observances that are settled at another moment — Janmashtami at midnight, Diwali at pradosh, Ahoi Ashtami at starrise — can therefore be announced by a temple one day either side of the marker here, and the table above says so where it applies. Solar festivals such as Makar Sankranti are keyed to the Sun's ingress instead, which is why they barely move.