Surat Panchang January 2027

In January 2027 the sun rises in Surat as early as 07:15 on Friday 1 January and as late as 07:18 on all 14 days from Sunday 10 January to Saturday 23 January — a spread of 3 minutes across the month. Sunset moves from 18:08 on Friday 1 January to 18:28 on Sunday 31 January. The longest daylight is 11h 12m on Sunday 31 January and the shortest 10h 52m on Saturday 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 Surat in January 2027 an eighth runs from 82 minutes to 84 minutes, and a table quoting a flat ninety minutes is wrong here by up to 8 minutes. Rahu Kaal on 1 January, a Friday, is 11:20-12:42 — the 4th of those eight parts, which is the one a Friday always takes.

Because the weekday chooses the part, Rahu Kaal’s position on the clock swings much further than sunrise does. Across January 2027 in Surat it begins as early as 08:38 on 4 January, a Monday, and as late as 17:04 on 31 January, a Sunday — 8h 26m apart, against a sunrise spread of only 3 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 2 minutes later to 6 minutes later across January 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 4 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 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 28 of its 30. In January 2027 Purnima falls on 22 January; Amavasya on 7 January; the two Ekadashis on 3 January and 19 January.