Pune Panchang January 2026

In January 2026 the sun rises in Pune as early as 07:06 on Thursday 1 January and as late as 07:09 on all 19 days from Saturday 10 January to Wednesday 28 January — a spread of 3 minutes across the month. Sunset moves from 18:09 on Thursday 1 January to 18:27 on Friday 30 January. The longest daylight is 11h 19m on Friday 30 January and Saturday 31 January and the shortest 11h 02m on Friday 2 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 Pune in January 2026 an eighth runs from 83 minutes to 85 minutes, and a table quoting a flat ninety minutes is wrong here by up to 7 minutes. Rahu Kaal on 1 January, a Thursday, is 14:00-15:23 — 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 Pune it begins as early as 08:31 on 5 January, a Monday, and as late as 17:00 on 25 January, a Sunday — 8h 29m apart, against a sunrise spread of only 3 minutes. There is no single “Rahu Kaal time” to memorise, here or anywhere.

Pune sits 3.35° west of New Delhi, which on longitude alone would put its sunrise 13 minutes later. Measured against the national table it actually runs from 7 minutes earlier to 1 minute 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 6 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 29 minutes from Pune’s, because the same numbered eighth is being taken from a longer or shorter day. A national table would get Pune’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.