Patna Panchang January 2026

In January 2026 the sun rises in Patna as early as 06:33 on Friday 30 January and Saturday 31 January and as late as 06:37 on all 12 days from Thursday 8 January to Monday 19 January — a spread of 4 minutes across the month. Sunset moves from 17:10 on Thursday 1 January to 17:32 on Saturday 31 January. The longest daylight is 10h 59m on Saturday 31 January and the shortest 10h 35m on all 3 days from Thursday 1 January to Saturday 3 January.

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 Patna in January 2026 an eighth runs from 79 minutes to 82 minutes, and a table quoting a flat ninety minutes is wrong here by up to 11 minutes. Rahu Kaal on 1 January, a Thursday, is 13:12-14:31 — the 6th of those eight parts, which is the one a Thursday always takes.

Because the weekday chooses the part, Rahu Kaal’s position on the clock swings much further than sunrise does. Across January 2026 in Patna it begins as early as 07:56 on 5 January, a Monday, and as late as 16:06 on 25 January, a Sunday — 8h 10m apart, against a sunrise spread of only 4 minutes. There is no single “Rahu Kaal time” to memorise, here or anywhere.

Patna sits 7.93° east of New Delhi, which on longitude alone would put its sunrise 32 minutes earlier. Measured against the national table it actually runs from 39 minutes earlier to 36 minutes earlier across January 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 3 minutes across the month. On the worst day in the table below the national panchang’s Rahu Kaal begins 37 minutes from Patna’s. A national table would get Patna’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 27 of its 27 values and the tithi 29 of its 30. In January 2026 Purnima falls on 3 January; Amavasya on 18 January; the two Ekadashis on 14 January and 29 January.