Bhopal Panchang December 2026

In December 2026 the sun rises in Bhopal as early as 06:44 on Tuesday 1 December and as late as 07:01 on Wednesday 30 December and Thursday 31 December — a spread of 17 minutes across the month. Sunset moves from 17:33 on Tuesday 1 December to 17:45 on Thursday 31 December. The longest daylight is 10h 49m on Tuesday 1 December and the shortest 10h 42m on 5 days of the month.

That matters more than it sounds, because Rahu Kaal, Gulika and Yamaghanta are each one eighth of the interval from sunrise to sunset rather than fixed clock spans — so in Bhopal in December 2026 an eighth runs from 80 minutes to 81 minutes, and a table quoting a flat ninety minutes is wrong here by up to 10 minutes. Rahu Kaal on 1 December, a Tuesday, is 14:51-16:12 — the 7th of those eight parts, which is the one a Tuesday always takes.

Because the weekday chooses the part, Rahu Kaal’s position on the clock swings much further than sunrise does. Across December 2026 in Bhopal it begins as early as 08:09 on 7 December, a Monday, and as late as 16:22 on 27 December, a Sunday — 8h 13m apart, against a sunrise spread of only 17 minutes. There is no single “Rahu Kaal time” to memorise, here or anywhere.

Bhopal sits 0.20° east of New Delhi, which on longitude alone would put its sunrise 1 minute earlier. Measured against the national table it actually runs from 13 minutes earlier to 11 minutes earlier across December 2026. It is a range rather than a constant because latitude bends the figure with the season while longitude only shifts it, and here that bend is worth 2 minutes across the month. On the worst day in the table below the national panchang’s Rahu Kaal begins 10 minutes from Bhopal’s. A national table would get Bhopal’s tithi right and every one of its times wrong.

Tithi, nakshatra, yoga and karana are the same everywhere in India and are read at sunrise from the same DE421 table the rest of the site uses — listed here for completeness, not because they differ by city: across these 31 sunrises the nakshatra takes 26 of its 27 values and the tithi 29 of its 30. In December 2026 Amavasya on 8 December; the two Ekadashis on 4 December and 20 December.