July 2026 Panchang Calendar — Rishikesh
Every tithi and nakshatra below is the one in force at Rishikesh's own sunrise on that date — Tapovan sits at 78.27°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 | 05:19 |
| Latest sunrise | 05:35 |
| Longest day | 843 minutes |
| Shortest day | 816 minutes |
| Ekadashi days | 1 |
| Purnima / Amavasya | 1 / 1 |
| Mornings whose tithi differs from New Delhi | 1 |
Sunrise in Rishikesh moves from 05:19 on the 1st to 05:35 on the 31st, and sunset from 19:22 to 19:12 — the day shortens by 27 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 Rishikesh'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 Rishikesh 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.
The calendars that fold into this one
Haridwar sit close enough to Rishikesh that the sky over them is the same sky: across the 365 mornings of the year sunrise differs by at most 46 seconds, and on 364 of those 365 mornings the tithi and nakshatra standing at the two sunrises were the same — they part on 1 morning of the year, when a boundary happens to fall in the seconds between the two dawns. Those pages are published for people who search by their own city's name, and each is canonicalised to this one rather than competing with it.
Every other city on this site diverges from Rishikesh by more than that, which is why each of them gets a calendar of its own instead.
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
Garhwal reads the month purnimanta. Rishikesh has one calendar habit the plains do not share: the Char Dham portals open and close on dates announced from the temples themselves — Akshaya Tritiya for Yamunotri and Gangotri, Bhai Dooj for the closing — so the town's season is bracketed by two tithis and the whole tourism economy moves with them.
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 Rishikesh 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.