Surat Panchang December 2027

In December 2027 the sun rises in Surat as early as 06:59 on Wednesday 1 December and Thursday 2 December and as late as 07:15 on Thursday 30 December and Friday 31 December — a spread of 16 minutes across the month. Sunset moves from 17:55 on Wednesday 1 December to 18:07 on Friday 31 December. The longest daylight is 10h 56m on all 3 days from Wednesday 1 December to Friday 3 December and the shortest 10h 50m on 4 days of the month.

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 2027 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 Wednesday, is 12:27-13:49 — the 5th of those eight parts, which is the one a Wednesday always takes.

Because the weekday chooses the part, Rahu Kaal’s position on the clock swings much further than sunrise does. Across December 2027 in Surat it begins as early as 08:24 on 6 December, a Monday, and as late as 16:43 on 26 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 2027. 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 2027 Purnima falls on 13 December; Amavasya on 27 December; the two Ekadashis on 9 December and 23 December.