Chandigarh Panchang April 2026

In April 2026 the sun rises in Chandigarh as early as 05:40 on Thursday 30 April and as late as 06:12 on Wednesday 1 April — a spread of 32 minutes across the month. Sunset moves from 18:41 on Wednesday 1 April to 19:00 on Thursday 30 April. The longest daylight is 13h 20m on Thursday 30 April and the shortest 12h 29m on Wednesday 1 April.

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 Chandigarh in April 2026 an eighth runs from 94 minutes to 100 minutes, and a table quoting a flat ninety minutes is wrong here by up to 10 minutes. Rahu Kaal on 1 April, a Wednesday, is 12:27-14:00 — the 5th of those eight parts, which is the one a Wednesday always takes.

Because the weekday chooses the part, Rahu Kaal’s position on the clock swings much further than sunrise does. Across April 2026 in Chandigarh it begins as early as 07:22 on 27 April, a Monday, and as late as 17:18 on 26 April, a Sunday — 9h 56m apart, against a sunrise spread of only 32 minutes. There is no single “Rahu Kaal time” to memorise, here or anywhere.

Chandigarh sits 0.43° west of New Delhi, which on longitude alone would put its sunrise 2 minutes later. Measured against the national table it actually runs from 1 minute earlier to 1 minute later across April 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. The windows drift further than sunrise itself does: on the worst day in the table below the national panchang’s Rahu Kaal begins 4 minutes from Chandigarh’s, because the same numbered eighth is being taken from a longer or shorter day. A national table would get Chandigarh’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 30 sunrises the nakshatra takes 26 of its 27 values and the tithi 29 of its 30. In April 2026 Purnima falls on 2 April; Amavasya on 17 April; the two Ekadashis on 13 April and 27 April.