Ranchi Panchang, 16 September 2026

The five windows in Ranchi on 16 September 2026

In clock order through the day. Which numbered eighth of daylight Rahu Kaal, Gulika and Yamaghanta each take is fixed by the weekday rather than by the clock, and no two weekdays share the assignment: on a Wednesday Rahu Kaal is the 5th of the eight, Gulika the 4th and Yamaghanta the 2nd. Sunrise 05:35 to sunset 17:51 is 12h 16m, so an eighth of it runs 92.0 minutes and a fifteenth — which is what Abhijit is — runs 49 minutes. The Length column is the gap between two endpoints each rounded to the whole minute, which is why the three eighths below read 92 minutes apiece.

The convention the classical almanacs record is that nothing new is begun inside Rahu Kaal, Gulika or Yamaghanta, and that Abhijit and Brahma muhurat are the day’s two settled windows — Brahma muhurat being the ninety-six minutes ending at sunrise, which is why it is the one window here whose length never changes with the season. What the tradition does not do is grade the rest of the day, and neither does this page. Choosing a window for a purpose needs a chart as well as a clock.

What a national panchang gets wrong in Ranchi today

The column on the right is the site’s own national table for 16 September 2026, computed for New Delhi from the JPL DE421 ephemeris — the numbers /panchang/2026-09-16/ actually prints. It is the same table almost every panchang in the vertical is a copy of. Every limb on it is right for Ranchi; every time on it is wrong, and the last column is by how much.

The widest of them on 16 September 2026 is Sunset, which a national table places 34 minutes later than Ranchi's. Longitude explains most of it: Ranchi sits 8.10° east of New Delhi, and four minutes per degree is the whole of the local-time correction. The rest is latitude, which does not shift sunrise so much as stretch the day — and because Rahu Kaal is a fraction of that day rather than a span on a clock, a stretched day moves the window further than it moves sunrise. That is why the difference in the table above is not one number repeated seven times.

An eighth of the day is not ninety minutes

Rahu Kaal, Gulika and Yamaghanta are each one eighth of the interval from sunrise to sunset. That is a definition, not an approximation, and it means the length of each is a property of the day rather than a fixed quantity anyone can print once. A table quoting a flat ninety minutes is therefore wrong here today by 2 minutes, and wrong in the short direction — it closes the window early. Across 2026 in Ranchi an eighth runs from 80 minutes to 102 minutes, so the error is not a constant either. Abhijit is a fifteenth of the same interval rather than an eighth, so it runs 49 minutes today — a little over half of Rahu Kaal, and it moves with local solar noon rather than with the clock. Brahma muhurat is the exception: fixed at 96 minutes because it is defined as a span before sunrise rather than a fraction of daylight, so in Ranchi it shifts with sunrise and never changes length.

Where 16 September sits in Ranchi’s year

12h 16m of daylight is the 173rd longest of Ranchi’s 365 days in 2026. The year’s longest sits 79 minutes above it, on 18 June and 2 other days at the same length; its shortest 94 minutes below, on 17 December and 10 other days at the same length. Since yesterday sunrise has moved not at all, sunset 1 minute earlier, so the day is 1 minute shorter — and every window above has moved with it. A monthly table hides that; a dated page is where it shows.

Of the 38 cities this site computes, Ranchi is the joint 4th to see the sun on 16 September 2026, sharing the printed minute with one other city. Sunrise across all 38 spans 77 minutes, from 05:09 in Guwahati to 06:26 in Ahmedabad — and Rahu Kaal’s opening spans 77 minutes, which is the more useful of the two numbers and the one no national table can carry.

The five limbs on 16 September 2026

These five are the same everywhere in India, and they are listed here for completeness rather than because they vary by city — a tithi is an angular relationship between the Sun and the Moon, and an angle does not have a postal address. One caveat is honest and worth stating: the almanac convention is to read each limb at sunrise, and the tabulated values above are read at New Delhi's sunrise. Ranchi’s sunrise is 31 minutes earlier than that, so on a day when a limb turns over inside that gap, the value current at Ranchi’s own sunrise is the neighbouring one. The site does not guess which days those are; where a limb is close to its boundary the honest place to look is the neighbouring-day view on the national page for 16 September 2026, which shows the days on either side for exactly this reason.

16 September 2026 in Ranchi and the cities nearest it

East to west, in the order the sun reaches them: Ranchi and the four cities nearest it, with Guwahati and Ahmedabad, which see the sun first and last of all 38 on this date. The last column is measured from Ranchi, so the table differs on every page that shares this date.

The two columns do not run in the same order, and 16 September 2026 is one of the dates where that is visible: Patna sees the sun before Ranchi and still reaches Rahu Kaal 1 minute after it. The reason is in the fourth column. Both cities take the same numbered eighth on a Wednesday, but Ranchi’s eighth is 92 minutes against 92 in Patna, and several eighths of that difference accumulate before the window opens. A shorter day reaches its own afternoon sooner.

Worth noting about 16 September 2026

• Abhijit is computed above because it is arithmetic — the eighth of fifteen equal parts of daylight — but 16 September 2026 is a Wednesday, and some traditions do not count Abhijit on a Wednesday. This site publishes the window on every weekday and leaves the observance to you.

Questions about Ranchi on 16 September 2026

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