Kochi Panchang February 2026

In February 2026 the sun rises in Kochi as early as 06:39 on Saturday 28 February and as late as 06:47 on all 3 days from Sunday 1 February to Tuesday 3 February — a spread of 8 minutes across the month. Sunset moves from 18:29 on Sunday 1 February to 18:35 on Wednesday 25 February. The longest daylight is 11h 56m on Saturday 28 February and the shortest 11h 42m on Sunday 1 February.

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 February 2026 an eighth runs from 88 minutes to 90 minutes, and a table quoting a flat ninety minutes is wrong here by up to 2 minutes. Rahu Kaal on 1 February, a Sunday, is 17:01-18:29 — the 8th of those eight parts, which is the one a Sunday always takes.

Because the weekday chooses the part, Rahu Kaal’s position on the clock swings much further than sunrise does. Across February 2026 in Kochi it begins as early as 08:10 on 23 February, a Monday, and as late as 17:05 on 22 February, a Sunday — 8h 55m apart, against a sunrise spread of only 8 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 22 minutes earlier to 8 minutes earlier across February 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 14 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 23 minutes from Kochi’s, because the same numbered eighth is being taken from a longer or shorter day. 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 28 sunrises the nakshatra takes 27 of its 27 values and the tithi 27 of its 30. In February 2026 Purnima falls on 1 February; Amavasya on 17 February; the two Ekadashis on 13 February and 27 February.