Delhi Panchang, 16 March 2027

The five windows in Delhi on 16 March 2027

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 Tuesday Rahu Kaal is the 7th of the eight, Gulika the 5th and Yamaghanta the 3rd. Sunrise 06:30 to sunset 18:29 is 11h 59m, so an eighth of it runs 89.9 minutes and a fifteenth — which is what Abhijit is — runs 48 minutes. The Length column is the gap between two endpoints each rounded to the whole minute, which is why the three eighths below read 89 and 90 minutes rather than one figure.

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.

Why these times are the tabulated ones

Delhi is the place this site’s national panchang is computed for, so the times above are the tabulated DE421 values themselves rather than a second calculation of them, and they agree to the minute with /panchang/2027-03-16/ because they are the same numbers. Every other city in this cluster is computed from its own latitude and longitude and compared against these — which is worth knowing in the other direction too: a table published for Delhi is the one almost every panchang in the vertical reprints, and it is wrong by the better part of an hour at the two ends of the country. What this page adds to the national one, then, is not a different set of times but a different set of questions about them: where 16 March 2027 sits in Delhi’s own year, how far it moved from yesterday, and how the seven windows compare across the cluster. Those are below.

An eighth of the day is ninety minutes on 16 March 2027, and on almost no other date

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. 16 March 2027 happens to be one of the few dates a year on which the flat ninety minutes a printed almanac quotes is right here, because daylight is close enough to twelve hours for the arithmetic to land on it. On either side of it the same table drifts: across 2027 in Delhi an eighth runs from 77 minutes to 105 minutes. Abhijit is a fifteenth of the same interval rather than an eighth, so it runs 48 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 Delhi it shifts with sunrise and never changes length.

Where 16 March sits in Delhi’s year

11h 59m of daylight is the 196th longest of Delhi’s 365 days in 2027. The year’s longest sits 119 minutes above it, on 15 June and 8 other days at the same length; its shortest 100 minutes below, on 17 December and 5 other days at the same length. Since yesterday sunrise has moved 1 minute earlier and sunset has held, so the day is 1 minute longer — and every window above has moved with it. A monthly table hides that; a dated page is where it shows.

Of the eight cities in this cluster, Delhi is the 5th to see the sun on 16 March 2027. Sunrise across the eight spans 64 minutes, from 05:44 in Kolkata to 06:48 in Ahmedabad — and Rahu Kaal’s opening spans 64 minutes, which is the more useful of the two numbers and the one no national table can carry.

The five limbs on 16 March 2027

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 this city's own sunrise. Since this is the place the table is computed for, there is no gap to allow for here. Every other city in the cluster reads these five at a sunrise a few minutes away from this one, and the national page for 16 March 2027 shows the neighbouring days for that reason.

16 March 2027 in eight cities

East to west, in the order the sun reaches them. The last column is measured from Delhi, so this table is a different table on each of the eight pages that share this date.

On 16 March 2027 the two columns happen to run in the same order, which is not something to rely on: because every city takes the same numbered eighth on a Tuesday and an eighth is a fraction of that city’s own daylight, a place that sees the sun later can reach its Rahu Kaal first whenever its day is enough shorter. Whether that happens depends on the date and on which eighth the weekday assigns, so the ordering here is a fact about 16 March 2027 and not a rule.

Questions about Delhi on 16 March 2027