Kochi Panchang May 2026

In May 2026 the sun rises in Kochi as early as 06:02 on all 9 days from Saturday 23 May to Sunday 31 May and as late as 06:07 on all 3 days from Friday 1 May to Sunday 3 May — a spread of 5 minutes across the month. Sunset moves from 18:36 on Friday 1 May to 18:42 on Saturday 30 May. The longest daylight is 12h 40m on Saturday 30 May and Sunday 31 May and the shortest 12h 29m on all 3 days from Friday 1 May to Sunday 3 May.

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 May 2026 an eighth runs from 94 minutes to 95 minutes, and a table quoting a flat ninety minutes is wrong here by up to 5 minutes. Rahu Kaal on 1 May, a Friday, is 10:48-12:22 — the 4th of those eight parts, which is the one a Friday always takes.

Because the weekday chooses the part, Rahu Kaal’s position on the clock swings much further than sunrise does. Across May 2026 in Kochi it begins as early as 07:37 on 25 May, a Monday, and as late as 17:07 on 31 May, a Sunday — 9h 30m apart, against a sunrise spread of only 5 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 27 minutes later to 39 minutes later across May 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 12 minutes across the month. On the worst day in the table below the national panchang’s Rahu Kaal begins 29 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 31 sunrises the nakshatra takes 26 of its 27 values and the tithi 28 of its 30. In May 2026 Purnima falls on 1 May; Amavasya on 16 May; the three Ekadashis on 13 May and 26 May and 27 May.