Surat Panchang December 2026

In December 2026 the sun rises in Surat as early as 06:59 on Tuesday 1 December and Wednesday 2 December and as late as 07:15 on Wednesday 30 December and Thursday 31 December — a spread of 16 minutes across the month. Sunset moves from 17:55 on Tuesday 1 December to 18:07 on Wednesday 30 December. The longest daylight is 10h 56m on all 3 days from Tuesday 1 December to Thursday 3 December and the shortest 10h 51m on all 13 days from Wednesday 16 December to Monday 28 December.

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 Surat in December 2026 an eighth runs from 81 minutes to 82 minutes, and a table quoting a flat ninety minutes is wrong here by up to 9 minutes. Rahu Kaal on 1 December, a Tuesday, is 15:11-16:33 — the 7th of those eight parts, which is the one a Tuesday always takes.

Because the weekday chooses the part, Rahu Kaal’s position on the clock swings much further than sunrise does. Across December 2026 in Surat it begins as early as 08:25 on 7 December, a Monday, and as late as 16:44 on 27 December, a Sunday — 8h 19m apart, against a sunrise spread of only 16 minutes. There is no single “Rahu Kaal time” to memorise, here or anywhere.

Surat sits 4.38° west of New Delhi, which on longitude alone would put its sunrise 18 minutes later. Measured against the national table it actually runs from 1 minute later to 3 minutes later across December 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 2 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 30 minutes from Surat’s, because the same numbered eighth is being taken from a longer or shorter day. A national table would get Surat’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 December 2026 Amavasya on 8 December; the two Ekadashis on 4 December and 20 December.