Madurai Panchang August 2026

In August 2026 the sun rises in Madurai as early as 06:07 on all 7 days from Saturday 1 August to Friday 7 August and as late as 06:08 on all 24 days from Saturday 8 August to Monday 31 August — a spread of 1 minute across the month. Sunset moves from 18:40 on Saturday 1 August to 18:27 on Sunday 30 August. The longest daylight is 12h 33m on Saturday 1 August and Sunday 2 August and the shortest 12h 19m on Sunday 30 August and Monday 31 August.

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 Madurai in August 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 August, a Saturday, is 09:15-10:49 — the 3rd of those eight parts, which is the one a Saturday always takes.

Because the weekday chooses the part, Rahu Kaal’s position on the clock swings much further than sunrise does. Across August 2026 in Madurai it begins as early as 07:40 on 31 August, a Monday, and as late as 17:06 on 2 August, a Sunday — 9h 26m apart, against a sunrise spread of only 1 minute. There is no single “Rahu Kaal time” to memorise, here or anywhere.

Madurai sits 0.91° east of New Delhi, which on longitude alone would put its sunrise 4 minutes earlier. Measured against the national table it actually runs from 10 minutes later to 25 minutes later across August 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 15 minutes across the month. On the worst day in the table below the national panchang’s Rahu Kaal begins 24 minutes from Madurai’s. A national table would get Madurai’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 29 of its 30. In August 2026 Purnima falls on 28 August; Amavasya on 12 August; the two Ekadashis on 9 August and 23 August.