तिरुवनंतपुरम पंचांग · Thiruvananthapuram Panchang Monday, 28 September 2026 · Bhadrapada Krishna Dvitiya · Anantapuri
Sunrise in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala is 06:11 IST today — 2 minutes earlier than New Delhi, because the city sits at 76.94°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 Thiruvananthapuram
Attukal Pongala, the largest single gathering of women anywhere in the world, is fixed by the Pooram nakshatra in the Malayalam month of Kumbham — a star-and-solar-month rule with no tithi in it at all, and the hearths are lit at a muhurtam announced from the temple rather than at a clock time. Padmanabhaswamy's Painkuni utsavam runs ten days to the Uthram star in Meenam.
Thiruvananthapuram is running Bhadrapada Krishna Dvitiya today, which holds until 19:20. Keep anything you are starting fresh outside Rahu Kaal 07:41–09:12; the cleanest window of the day is Abhijit at 11:49–12:37.
This week in Thiruvananthapuram
| Date | Tithi | Nakshatra | Rahu Kaal |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 28 Sep | Krishna Dvitiya | Revati | 07:41–09:12 |
| Tue 29 Sep | Krishna Tritiya | Ashwini | 15:14–16:44 |
| Wed 30 Sep | Krishna Chaturthi | Bharani | 12:12–13:43 |
| Thu 1 Oct | Krishna Panchami | Rohini | 13:42–15:13 |
| Fri 2 Oct | Krishna Shashthi | Mrigashira | 10:41–12:12 |
| Sat 3 Oct | Krishna Saptami | Ardra | 09:11–10:41 |
| Sun 4 Oct | Krishna Navami | Punarvasu | 16:42–18:12 |
Thiruvananthapuram month calendars
Frequently asked questions
What time is sunrise in Thiruvananthapuram today, and why does it differ from New Delhi?
Sunrise in Thiruvananthapuram today is 06:11 IST and sunset is 18:15 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 Thiruvananthapuram sits at 76.94°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 Thiruvananthapuram, and does it change the tithi?
Anantapuri dates civil life by the Kollavarsham solar month and religious life largely by nakshatra, which makes it the one city on this site where the star listed on this page is consulted more often than the tithi. The amanta lunar month named here is the convention used for pan-Indian vrats; the temple's own utsavam calendar is expressed in Malayalam solar months and stars instead. 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 purnimanta 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 Thiruvananthapuram's actual coordinates (8.5241°N, 76.9366°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.