Thiruvananthapuram Panchang December 2026

In December 2026 the sun rises in Thiruvananthapuram as early as 06:21 on Tuesday 1 December and Wednesday 2 December and as late as 06:36 on Thursday 31 December — a spread of 15 minutes across the month. Sunset moves from 18:01 on Tuesday 1 December to 18:14 on Thursday 31 December. The longest daylight is 11h 40m on 3 days of the month and the shortest 11h 38m on 22 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 Thiruvananthapuram in December 2026 an eighth runs from 87 minutes to 88 minutes, and a table quoting a flat ninety minutes is wrong here by up to 3 minutes. Rahu Kaal on 1 December, a Tuesday, is 15:06-16:34 — 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 Thiruvananthapuram it begins as early as 07:51 on 7 December, a Monday, and as late as 16:45 on 27 December, a Sunday — 8h 53m apart, against a sunrise spread of only 15 minutes. There is no single “Rahu Kaal time” to memorise, here or anywhere.

Thiruvananthapuram sits 0.27° west of New Delhi, which on longitude alone would put its sunrise 1 minute later. Measured against the national table it actually runs from 38 minutes earlier to 35 minutes earlier 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 3 minutes across the month. On the worst day in the table below the national panchang’s Rahu Kaal begins 31 minutes from Thiruvananthapuram’s. A national table would get Thiruvananthapuram’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.