Varanasi Panchang December 2026

In December 2026 the sun rises in Varanasi as early as 06:26 on Tuesday 1 December and as late as 06:43 on Wednesday 30 December and Thursday 31 December — a spread of 17 minutes across the month. Sunset moves from 17:07 on Tuesday 1 December to 17:18 on Wednesday 30 December. The longest daylight is 10h 41m on Tuesday 1 December and the shortest 10h 33m on 3 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 Varanasi in December 2026 an eighth runs from 79 minutes to 80 minutes, and a table quoting a flat ninety minutes is wrong here by up to 11 minutes. Rahu Kaal on 1 December, a Tuesday, is 14:27-15:47 — 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 Varanasi it begins as early as 07:50 on 7 December, a Monday, and as late as 15:57 on 27 December, a Sunday — 8h 07m apart, against a sunrise spread of only 17 minutes. There is no single “Rahu Kaal time” to memorise, here or anywhere.

Varanasi sits 5.76° east of New Delhi, which on longitude alone would put its sunrise 23 minutes earlier. Measured against the national table it actually runs from 31 minutes earlier to 29 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 2 minutes across the month. On the worst day in the table below the national panchang’s Rahu Kaal begins 29 minutes from Varanasi’s. A national table would get Varanasi’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.