Chandigarh · Punjab/Haryana · Friday
Chandigarh Panchang, 11 September 2026
Sunrise 06:04, sunset 18:33, 12h 29m of daylight — computed for 30.7333°N 76.7794°E, not copied from a national table.
Sunrise
06:04
Sunset
18:33
Rahu Kaal
10:45–12:19
Tithi
Amavasya
The five windows in Chandigarh on 11 September 2026
In clock order through the day. Which numbered eighth of daylight Rahu Kaal, Gulika and Yamaghanta each take is fixed by the weekday rather than by the clock, and no two weekdays share the assignment: on a Friday Rahu Kaal is the 4th of the eight, Gulika the 2nd and Yamaghanta the 7th. Sunrise 06:04 to sunset 18:33 is 12h 29m, so an eighth of it runs 93.6 minutes and a fifteenth — which is what Abhijit is — runs 50 minutes. The Length column is the gap between two endpoints each rounded to the whole minute, which is why the three eighths below read 94 minutes apiece.
| Window | IST | Length | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brahma muhurat | 04:28–06:04 | 96 minutes | a fixed span ending at sunrise — the one row here that is not a fraction of daylight |
| Gulika Kaal | 07:38–09:11 | 94 minutes | the 2nd of eight parts of daylight |
| Rahu Kaal | 10:45–12:19 | 94 minutes | the 4th of eight parts of daylight |
| Abhijit muhurat | 11:54–12:43 | 50 minutes | the 8th of fifteen parts, straddling local midday |
| Yamaghanta | 15:26–16:59 | 94 minutes | the 7th of eight parts of daylight |
The convention the classical almanacs record is that nothing new is begun inside Rahu Kaal, Gulika or Yamaghanta, and that Abhijit and Brahma muhurat are the day’s two settled windows — Brahma muhurat being the ninety-six minutes ending at sunrise, which is why it is the one window here whose length never changes with the season. What the tradition does not do is grade the rest of the day, and neither does this page. Choosing a window for a purpose needs a chart as well as a clock.
What a national panchang gets wrong in Chandigarh today
The column on the right is the site’s own national table for 11 September 2026, computed for New Delhi from the JPL DE421 ephemeris — the numbers /panchang/2026-09-11/ actually prints. It is the same table almost every panchang in the vertical is a copy of. Every limb on it is right for Chandigarh; every time on it is wrong, and the last column is by how much.
| Chandigarh | National (New Delhi) | Difference | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunrise | 06:04 | 06:04 | level |
| Sunset | 18:33 | 18:31 | +2 min |
| Brahma muhurat | 04:28-06:04 | 04:28-06:04 | level |
| Rahu Kaal | 10:45-12:19 | 10:44-12:17 | +1 min |
| Gulika Kaal | 07:38-09:11 | 07:37-09:10 | +1 min |
| Yamaghanta | 15:26-16:59 | 15:24-16:57 | +2 min |
| Abhijit muhurat | 11:54-12:43 | 11:52-12:42 | +2 min |
The widest of them on 11 September 2026 is Sunset, which a national table places 2 minutes earlier than Chandigarh's. Longitude explains most of it: Chandigarh sits 0.43° west of New Delhi, and four minutes per degree is the whole of the local-time correction. The rest is latitude, which does not shift sunrise so much as stretch the day — and because Rahu Kaal is a fraction of that day rather than a span on a clock, a stretched day moves the window further than it moves sunrise. That is why the difference in the table above is not one number repeated seven times.
An eighth of the day is not ninety minutes
Rahu Kaal, Gulika and Yamaghanta are each one eighth of the interval from sunrise to sunset. That is a definition, not an approximation, and it means the length of each is a property of the day rather than a fixed quantity anyone can print once. A table quoting a flat ninety minutes is therefore wrong here today by 4 minutes, and wrong in the short direction — it closes the window early. Across 2026 in Chandigarh an eighth runs from 76 minutes to 107 minutes, so the error is not a constant either. Abhijit is a fifteenth of the same interval rather than an eighth, so it runs 50 minutes today — a little over half of Rahu Kaal, and it moves with local solar noon rather than with the clock. Brahma muhurat is the exception: fixed at 96 minutes because it is defined as a span before sunrise rather than a fraction of daylight, so in Chandigarh it shifts with sunrise and never changes length.
Where 11 September sits in Chandigarh’s year
12h 29m of daylight is the 163rd longest of Chandigarh’s 365 days in 2026. The year’s longest sits 100 minutes above it, on 18 June and 2 other days at the same length; its shortest 140 minutes below, on 19 December and 2 other days at the same length. Since yesterday sunrise has moved not at all, sunset 2 minutes earlier, so the day is 2 minutes shorter — and every window above has moved with it. A monthly table hides that; a dated page is where it shows.
Of the 38 cities this site computes, Chandigarh is the joint 16th to see the sun on 11 September 2026, sharing the printed minute with two other cities. Sunrise across all 38 spans 78 minutes, from 05:07 in Guwahati to 06:25 in Ahmedabad — and Rahu Kaal’s opening spans 77 minutes, which is the more useful of the two numbers and the one no national table can carry.
The five limbs on 11 September 2026
| Tithi | Amavasya (Krishna Paksha) |
|---|---|
| Nakshatra | Purva Phalguni |
| Yoga | Sadhya |
| Karana | Naga |
| Vara | Friday |
These five are the same everywhere in India, and they are listed here for completeness rather than because they vary by city — a tithi is an angular relationship between the Sun and the Moon, and an angle does not have a postal address. One caveat is honest and worth stating: the almanac convention is to read each limb at sunrise, and the tabulated values above are read at New Delhi's sunrise. Chandigarh’s sunrise is at the same minute as that today, so on a day when a limb turns over inside that gap, the value current at Chandigarh’s own sunrise is the neighbouring one. The site does not guess which days those are; where a limb is close to its boundary the honest place to look is the neighbouring-day view on the national page for 11 September 2026, which shows the days on either side for exactly this reason.
11 September 2026 in Chandigarh and the cities nearest it
East to west, in the order the sun reaches them: Chandigarh and the four cities nearest it, with Guwahati and Ahmedabad, which see the sun first and last of all 38 on this date. The last column is measured from Chandigarh, so the table differs on every page that shares this date.
| City | Sunrise | Rahu Kaal | An eighth | vs Chandigarh |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guwahati | 05:07 | 09:46–11:20 | 93 min | −59 min |
| Dehradun | 05:59 | 10:40–12:14 | 94 min | −5 min |
| Delhi | 06:04 | 10:44–12:17 | 93 min | −1 min |
| Chandigarh | 06:04 | 10:45–12:19 | 94 min | — |
| Gurgaon | 06:04 | 10:44–12:18 | 93 min | −1 min |
| Amritsar | 06:11 | 10:52–12:26 | 94 min | +7 min |
| Ahmedabad | 06:25 | 11:03–12:36 | 93 min | +18 min |
The two columns do not run in the same order, and 11 September 2026 is one of the dates where that is visible: Chandigarh sees the sun before Gurgaon and still reaches Rahu Kaal 1 minute after it. The reason is in the fourth column. Both cities take the same numbered eighth on a Friday, but Gurgaon’s eighth is 93 minutes against 94 in Chandigarh, and several eighths of that difference accumulate before the window opens. A shorter day reaches its own afternoon sooner.
Worth noting about 11 September 2026
- 11 September 2026 carries Amavasya at sunrise — the new Moon tithi, which is the one point in the cycle where the tithi's name is the same in both pakshas' reckoning.
Questions about Chandigarh on 11 September 2026
What is the Rahu Kaal in Chandigarh on 11 September 2026?
10:45 to 12:19 IST, running 94 minutes. It is the 4th of eight parts of daylight, and on a Friday that is the part the convention assigns. Because it is a fraction of the interval from sunrise (06:04) to sunset (18:33) rather than a fixed clock span, both its start and its length are specific to Chandigarh on this date.
What time is sunrise in Chandigarh on 11 September 2026?
06:04 IST, with sunset at 18:33 — 12h 29m of daylight. Computed for 30.7333°N 76.7794°E, which is the same minute as the New Delhi sunrise a national panchang prints for the same date, which happens on a handful of dates a year where longitude and latitude cancel.
Is the tithi different in Chandigarh?
No. The tithi on 11 September 2026 is Amavasya (Krishna Paksha) and the nakshatra is Purva Phalguni, and both are the same everywhere in India — they are angular relationships between the Sun and the Moon, not local observations. What changes by city is every time on this page, because sunrise, sunset and the five windows derived from them are functions of latitude and longitude.
Is Rahu Kaal always ninety minutes in Chandigarh?
No. It is one eighth of the interval from sunrise to sunset, so it changes with the date: on 11 September 2026 in Chandigarh that eighth is 93.6 minutes, and the row above reads 94 minutes because the table prints each endpoint to the whole minute rather than the length itself. Over 2026 the figure moves far enough here that a flat ninety minutes is out by as much as 17 minutes, on nothing but the calendar.
The same date nearby: Dehradun (129 km) · Amritsar (207 km) · Delhi (239 km) · Gurgaon (254 km)
These windows are right for Chandigarh. Which one is right for you is a different question
Everything above is arithmetic on Chandigarh’s sunrise, and it is correct to the minute. Whether a particular hour of 11 September 2026 suits a particular undertaking depends on your birth chart, and no page computed from a latitude can answer that.
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