Chithi Bande Panchang · 18 June 2026

About Panchang in Chithi Bande

A panchang answers a simple question — what does today favour? — through five limbs: tithi, nakshatra, yoga, karana and vara. This is the complete panchang for Chithi Bande, Jammu and Kashmir on 18 June 2026, when the Shukla Paksha Chaturthi tithi prevails and the Moon sits in Pushya nakshatra. Every auspicious and inauspicious window shown here is calculated from Chithi Bande's own sky at 34.38°N, 74.69°E, never recycled from a generic IST panchang.

Location is not a detail in panchang work — it is the foundation. Chithi Bande, at 34.38°N, 74.69°E in the Asia/Kolkata zone, experiences a day that opens and closes on its own schedule rather than India's. On 18 June 2026 the sun rises over Chithi Bande at 5:18 AM and sets at 7:46 PM — figures no Indian city shares — and because Rahu Kalam, Yamaganda, Gulika, the choghadiya periods and Abhijit Muhurat are simply divisions of that local span of daylight, they fall at different clock times here. Even the prevailing tithi can shift across a timezone, since tithi boundaries are fixed worldwide moments that map to different local dates.

Accuracy here rests on observed astronomy. We take Sun and Moon longitudes from the Swiss Ephemeris and apply the Lahiri (Chitrapaksha) ayanamsa — the reference India's Rashtriya Panchang uses — so the results are drik-siddha rather than table-derived. A tithi turns over when the Moon advances another 12° past the Sun, a nakshatra when it steps into the next 13°20′ sector; we express those moments in Asia/Kolkata time and slice every sunrise-dependent period from Chithi Bande's own daylight. Each step is set out on our methodology page.

Treat this as your scheduling companion in Chithi Bande: before fixing a puja, griha pravesh, mundan, vehicle purchase or journey on Thursday, 18 June 2026, read the tithi and nakshatra, then pick the hour. Abhijit Muhurat (12:03 PM – 1:01 PM) is the day's most dependable auspicious window, while Rahu Kalam (2:20 PM – 4:09 PM) is best avoided for new beginnings. The choghadiya tables above split the day and night of Thursday into auspicious and inauspicious spells — every figure already converted to Chithi Bande local time, so what you read is what your clock shows.

Read our full calculation methodology →