Fort Saint David Panchang · 19 June 2026

About Panchang in Fort Saint David

A panchang is the traditional Hindu almanac that maps each day through five limbs — tithi (lunar day), nakshatra (the constellation the Moon occupies), yoga, karana and vara (weekday). This page carries the complete panchang for Fort Saint David, Tamil Nadu for 19 June 2026: today the Shukla Paksha Panchami tithi prevails with the Moon in Ashlesha nakshatra, and every muhurat and kaal window below is worked out for Fort Saint David's own sky rather than copied from an Indian city's almanac.

Why does the city matter so much? Because nearly everything in a panchang is anchored to local sunrise. Fort Saint David lies at 11.74°N, 79.79°E and keeps Asia/Kolkata time, so its days begin and end at different moments than any Indian city's. On 19 June 2026 the sun rises over Fort Saint David at 5:47 AM and sets at 6:36 PM — figures no Indian city shares — and Rahu Kalam, Yamaganda, Gulika, the eight choghadiya periods and Abhijit Muhurat are all fractions of that local daylight. Reading an India-time panchang in Fort Saint David would put every one of those windows at the wrong local hour — and across a timezone gap, even the tithi in force on a given date can change.

A word on accuracy: every figure here is computed, not transcribed. Sun and Moon longitudes come from the Swiss Ephemeris — the precision engine behind professional jyotish software — referenced to the Lahiri (Chitrapaksha) ayanamsa that India's Rashtriya Panchang adopts. The Moon gaining 12° on the Sun marks each new tithi; crossing the next 13°20′ arc marks each new nakshatra. We convert those universal moments to Asia/Kolkata time and then carve every sunrise-based window from Fort Saint David's own daylight. The full method is on our methodology page.

For families in Fort Saint David and across Tamil Nadu, this page turns the panchang into practical decisions for Friday, 19 June 2026: which hour suits a puja, a griha pravesh, a mundan, a new vehicle or setting out on a trip. Abhijit Muhurat (11:46 AM – 12:37 PM) is the day's most dependable auspicious window, while Rahu Kalam (10:36 AM – 12:12 PM) is best avoided for new beginnings. When a ceremony needs a longer stretch, pick a favourable choghadiya from the tables above — every entry is in Fort Saint David local time, so no IST arithmetic is needed.

Read our full calculation methodology →