Varanasi Panchang, 30 March 2026

The five windows in Varanasi on 30 March 2026

In clock order through the day. Which numbered eighth of daylight Rahu Kaal, Gulika and Yamaghanta each take is fixed by the weekday rather than by the clock, and no two weekdays share the assignment: on a Monday Rahu Kaal is the 2nd of the eight, Gulika the 6th and Yamaghanta the 4th. Sunrise 05:51 to sunset 18:13 is 12h 22m, so an eighth of it runs 92.8 minutes and a fifteenth — which is what Abhijit is — runs 49 minutes. The Length column is the gap between two endpoints each rounded to the whole minute, which is why the three eighths below read 93 minutes apiece.

The convention the classical almanacs record is that nothing new is begun inside Rahu Kaal, Gulika or Yamaghanta, and that Abhijit and Brahma muhurat are the day’s two settled windows — Brahma muhurat being the ninety-six minutes ending at sunrise, which is why it is the one window here whose length never changes with the season. What the tradition does not do is grade the rest of the day, and neither does this page. Choosing a window for a purpose needs a chart as well as a clock.

What a national panchang gets wrong in Varanasi today

The column on the right is the site’s own national table for 30 March 2026, computed for New Delhi from the JPL DE421 ephemeris — the numbers /panchang/2026-03-30/ actually prints. It is the same table almost every panchang in the vertical is a copy of. Every limb on it is right for Varanasi; every time on it is wrong, and the last column is by how much.

The widest of them on 30 March 2026 is Sunset, which a national table places 24 minutes later than Varanasi's. Longitude explains most of it: Varanasi sits 5.76° east of New Delhi, and four minutes per degree is the whole of the local-time correction. The rest is latitude, which does not shift sunrise so much as stretch the day — and because Rahu Kaal is a fraction of that day rather than a span on a clock, a stretched day moves the window further than it moves sunrise. That is why the difference in the table above is not one number repeated seven times.

An eighth of the day is not ninety minutes

Rahu Kaal, Gulika and Yamaghanta are each one eighth of the interval from sunrise to sunset. That is a definition, not an approximation, and it means the length of each is a property of the day rather than a fixed quantity anyone can print once. A table quoting a flat ninety minutes is therefore wrong here today by 3 minutes, and wrong in the short direction — it closes the window early. Across 2026 in Varanasi an eighth runs from 79 minutes to 103 minutes, so the error is not a constant either. Abhijit is a fifteenth of the same interval rather than an eighth, so it runs 49 minutes today — a little over half of Rahu Kaal, and it moves with local solar noon rather than with the clock. Brahma muhurat is the exception: fixed at 96 minutes because it is defined as a span before sunrise rather than a fraction of daylight, so in Varanasi it shifts with sunrise and never changes length.

Where 30 March sits in Varanasi’s year

12h 22m of daylight is the 167th longest of Varanasi’s 365 days in 2026. The year’s longest sits 81 minutes above it, on 16 June and 10 other days at the same length; its shortest 109 minutes below, on 19 December and 2 other days at the same length. Since yesterday sunrise has moved 2 minutes earlier and sunset has held, so the day is 2 minutes longer — and every window above has moved with it. A monthly table hides that; a dated page is where it shows.

Of the 38 cities this site computes, Varanasi is the 6th to see the sun on 30 March 2026. Sunrise across all 38 spans 78 minutes, from 05:16 in Guwahati to 06:34 in Ahmedabad — and Rahu Kaal’s opening spans 78 minutes, which is the more useful of the two numbers and the one no national table can carry.

The five limbs on 30 March 2026

These five are the same everywhere in India, and they are listed here for completeness rather than because they vary by city — a tithi is an angular relationship between the Sun and the Moon, and an angle does not have a postal address. One caveat is honest and worth stating: the almanac convention is to read each limb at sunrise, and the tabulated values above are read at New Delhi's sunrise. Varanasi’s sunrise is 22 minutes earlier than that, so on a day when a limb turns over inside that gap, the value current at Varanasi’s own sunrise is the neighbouring one. The site does not guess which days those are; where a limb is close to its boundary the honest place to look is the neighbouring-day view on the national page for 30 March 2026, which shows the days on either side for exactly this reason.

30 March 2026 in Varanasi and the cities nearest it

East to west, in the order the sun reaches them: Varanasi and the four cities nearest it, with Guwahati and Ahmedabad, which see the sun first and last of all 38 on this date. The last column is measured from Varanasi, so the table differs on every page that shares this date.

The two columns do not run in the same order, and 30 March 2026 is one of the dates where that is visible: Patna sees the sun before Ranchi and still reaches Rahu Kaal 0 minutes after it. The reason is in the fourth column. Both cities take the same numbered eighth on a Monday, but Ranchi’s eighth is 93 minutes against 93 in Patna, and several eighths of that difference accumulate before the window opens. A shorter day reaches its own afternoon sooner.

Questions about Varanasi on 30 March 2026

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