Panchak 2027 Dates and Times, From November 2026

Panchak is the stretch, roughly once a month, in which the Moon crosses the last two signs of the sidereal zodiac, Kumbha (Aquarius) and Meena (Pisces). Each one lasts a little under five days. The next one begins on Tuesday, 17 November 2026 at 15:30 and ends on Sunday 22 November at 05:54. After the December 2026 passage come thirteen more that begin in 2027, and the table closes with the one that opens in the first hours of 1 January 2028.

The Five Nakshatras (पंचक)

The name means “a group of five”, and the five are nakshatras. The site’s nakshatra table puts five of the twenty-seven partly or wholly in Aquarius or Pisces, the last five of the sequence:

• Dhanishta, Capricorn 23°20′ – Aquarius 6°40′; only the part from Aquarius 0°00′ to 6°40′, its second half, counts
• Shatabhisha, Aquarius 6°40′ – 20°00′
• Purva Bhadrapada, Aquarius 20°00′ – Pisces 3°20′
• Uttara Bhadrapada, Pisces 3°20′ – 16°40′
• Revati, Pisces 16°40′ – 30°00′

So Panchak opens when the Moon reaches the middle of Dhanishta and closes when it leaves Revati for Ashwini, which is the same pair of instants as the Moon’s entry into Kumbha and its exit from Meena. In every passage below, the Moon goes on into Shatabhisha, Purva Bhadrapada, Uttara Bhadrapada and Revati in that order and leaves into Ashwini at the table’s end time.

Panchak Dates and Times, November 2026 to December 2027

The times are Indian Standard Time and hold for the whole country. The Moon changes sign at one instant everywhere, so a Panchak begins at the same clock time in Guwahati as in Ahmedabad; only the sunrises it contains depend on the city. Each instant was computed from NASA JPL’s DE421 ephemeris with the Lahiri ayanamsa and cut to the minute, and the list was then checked against the site’s daily panchang: of the 410 New Delhi sunrises from 17 November 2026 to 31 December 2027, the 71 that fall inside a passage all carry one of the five nakshatras, and every sunrise the daily table puts in Shatabhisha, Purva Bhadrapada, Uttara Bhadrapada or Revati falls inside one. The last row starts after that table ends, so its sunrises come from the site’s sunrise code and it was not part of the check.

Every month of 2027 has a start, and April has two, on the 3rd and the 30th. The 1 January 2028 passage begins at 02:39, in the night that follows Friday 31 December, which is why it is shown here though it belongs to 2028.

Four Mornings or Five

A wall calendar that marks each day by the nakshatra at sunrise will show Panchak on the days in the fourth column, and these are not always the days a passage touches. A passage that opens after sunrise is first marked on the following morning, and one that ends between midnight and dawn is gone before that date’s sunrise. Four of the fifteen passages do both, and so hold only four New Delhi sunrises: 17 November 2026 (Tuesday), 7 February (Sunday), 30 April (Friday) and 21 July (Wednesday). The other eleven hold five.

The nearest call is in July. That passage ends at 05:13 on 26 July, 25 minutes before New Delhi’s sunrise, so a Delhi calendar shows Ashwini that morning while the Panchak itself runs into the small hours of the same date.

Where Your City Changes the Last Morning

On 22 November sunrise across the site’s cities runs from 05:46 in Guwahati to 07:06 in Jammu, so a passage that ends near dawn can hold one more sunrise in the east than in Delhi. Running the same count for each of the 38 cities the site keeps panchangs for, only two passages change, and in both the change is a fifth morning on the final date.

November 2026. The passage ends at 05:54 on 22 November, 55 minutes before New Delhi’s sunrise. Sunrise in Guwahati comes before 05:54, so a calendar for that city marks 22 November as a Panchak morning too. In Kolkata (one minute before) the gap is no more than three minutes, inside the uncertainty of a computed sunrise, so almanacs printed there may go either way.

July 2027. The end comes at 05:13 on 26 July. Guwahati and Kolkata see the Sun up before that and so have a fifth morning; Patna (one minute before) and Ranchi (three minutes after) are too close to call. For any other place, the panchang calculator gives the local sunrise to set against the end time above.

A Start That Moves Later Each Time

The Moon returns to the start of Kumbha once every sidereal month, and between consecutive starts in this table the gap is 27 days plus anything from 5 hours 59 minutes to 8 hours 21 minutes. Each Panchak therefore begins several hours later on the clock than the one before. Because 27 days is one short of four weeks, the starting weekday slips back by one, except when the extra hours carry the start over midnight, and then the weekday repeats: that happens five times here, on 11 January (Monday), 3 April (Saturday), 24 June (Thursday), 11 October (Monday) and 1 January 2028 (Saturday).

The length varies too, because the Moon’s speed along the zodiac is not constant. The November 2026 passage is the shortest listed at 110 hours 24 minutes, and the December 2027 one the longest at 118 hours 19 minutes; the January run-off is longer again.

The Weekday Names in the Almanacs

North Indian almanacs give each Panchak a name taken from the weekday it begins on: Roga for Sunday, Raja for Monday, Agni for Tuesday, Chora for Friday and Mrityu for Saturday. In that scheme a Wednesday or Thursday start has no name, and three of the listed passages fall in that gap. The last column of the table gives the name for each row. A name is a label in a classification; it is not a forecast, and this page attaches no outcome to any passage.

One thing can make two almanacs disagree about the name. A panchang reckons the vara from sunrise to sunrise, and four of the listed passages begin between 00:50 and 04:34, before any city’s dawn: 11 January (Monday), 3 April (Saturday), 24 June (Thursday) and 11 October (Monday). By the calendar date each starts on that weekday, but by the vara it starts on the day before, and the January run-off is the same case. In three of those four the two readings give different names; the June start, Wednesday by vara and Thursday by date, has no name either way. The table shows both readings and does not choose between them.

What Muhurta Custom Restricts

Muhurta manuals list a handful of undertakings not to begin while the Moon is in these two signs: laying a roof or starting construction, gathering wood or fuel, making a cot or bed, and setting out on a journey southward. Where a cremation has to take place during Panchak, the custom is for the family to ask its priest whether their own tradition adds rites. These are the customs as they are reported. The page does not rank the passages, and nothing here is advice to move a date a family has already fixed.

Panchak is one of several conditions a muhurat check works through. The site’s vivah muhurat guide names Panchaka beside Bhadra in its list, and explains why the site does not print dated wedding muhurats. How the nakshatra sits alongside tithi, yoga, karana and vara in a daily panchang is set out in Panchang Today.

Related Pages

Every sunrise each nakshatra holds from 2026 to 2027 is on its own page under the panchang, linked from the five names above. For the other monthly dates of the year see the Amavasya 2027 list and the Ekadashi 2027 list; the festivals are on the festivals page and in the 2027 festival calendar. In Hindi: पंचक 2027: नवम्बर 2026 से हर पंचक कब से कब तक.