Kochi Panchang April 2026

In April 2026 the sun rises in Kochi as early as 06:08 on all 3 days from Tuesday 28 April to Thursday 30 April and as late as 06:22 on Wednesday 1 April — a spread of 14 minutes across the month. Sunset moves from 18:35 on Wednesday 1 April to 18:36 on Monday 27 April. The longest daylight is 12h 28m on all 3 days from Tuesday 28 April to Thursday 30 April and the shortest 12h 13m 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 Kochi in April 2026 an eighth runs from 92 minutes to 94 minutes, and a table quoting a flat ninety minutes is wrong here by up to 4 minutes. Rahu Kaal on 1 April, a Wednesday, is 12:29-14:00 — 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 Kochi it begins as early as 07:42 on 27 April, a Monday, and as late as 17:03 on 5 April, a Sunday — 9h 21m apart, against a sunrise spread of only 14 minutes. There is no single “Rahu Kaal time” to memorise, here or anywhere.

Kochi sits 0.94° west of New Delhi, which on longitude alone would put its sunrise 4 minutes later. Measured against the national table it actually runs from 11 minutes later to 27 minutes 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 16 minutes across the month. On the worst day in the table below the national panchang’s Rahu Kaal begins 20 minutes from Kochi’s. A national table would get Kochi’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.