Varanasi Panchang July 2026

In July 2026 the sun rises in Varanasi as early as 05:11 on all 3 days from Wednesday 1 July to Friday 3 July and as late as 05:24 on Thursday 30 July and Friday 31 July — a spread of 13 minutes across the month. Sunset moves from 18:52 on Wednesday 1 July to 18:44 on Thursday 30 July. The longest daylight is 13h 41m on all 3 days from Wednesday 1 July to Friday 3 July and the shortest 13h 20m on Thursday 30 July and Friday 31 July.

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 July 2026 an eighth runs from 100 minutes to 103 minutes, and a table quoting a flat ninety minutes is wrong here by up to 13 minutes. Rahu Kaal on 1 July, a Wednesday, is 12:02-13:44 — 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 July 2026 in Varanasi it begins as early as 06:55 on 6 July, a Monday, and as late as 17:10 on 5 July, a Sunday — 10h 14m apart, against a sunrise spread of only 13 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 17 minutes earlier to 15 minutes earlier across July 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 29 minutes from Varanasi’s, because the same numbered eighth is being taken from a longer or shorter day. 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 28 of its 30. In July 2026 Purnima falls on 29 July; Amavasya on 14 July; the single Ekadashi on 25 July.