Machico Panchang

About Panchang in Machico

The five limbs of the panchang — tithi, nakshatra, yoga, karana and vara — have guided Hindu timekeeping for millennia, and this page works all five out specifically for Machico, Madeira. On 16 June 2026 the day unfolds under the Shukla Paksha Dvitiya tithi with the Moon in Ardra nakshatra. Because the timings are tied to Machico's own horizon (32.72°N, 16.77°W), they differ from the figures an Indian city would show.

Location is not a detail in panchang work — it is the foundation. Machico, at 32.72°N, 16.77°W in the Atlantic/Madeira zone, experiences a day that opens and closes on its own schedule rather than India's. On 16 June 2026 the sun rises over Machico at 6:59 AM and sets at 9:16 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 Atlantic/Madeira time and slice every sunrise-dependent period from Machico's own daylight. Each step is set out on our methodology page.

Treat this as your scheduling companion in Machico: before fixing a puja, griha pravesh, mundan, vehicle purchase or journey on Tuesday, 16 June 2026, read the tithi and nakshatra, then pick the hour. Abhijit Muhurat (1:39 PM – 2:36 PM) is the day's most dependable auspicious window, while Rahu Kalam (5:42 PM – 7:29 PM) is best avoided for new beginnings. The choghadiya tables above split the day and night of Tuesday into auspicious and inauspicious spells — every figure already converted to Machico local time, so what you read is what your clock shows.

Read our full calculation methodology →