Criccieth Panchang

About Panchang in Criccieth

Every traditional Hindu day is read through five limbs — tithi, nakshatra, yoga, karana and the weekday (vara) — which together make up the panchang, literally "five limbs". This page sets out all five for Criccieth, Wales on 17 June 2026: the Shukla Paksha Tritiya tithi is in force with the Moon travelling through Punarvasu nakshatra. Crucially, every muhurat and kaal below is derived from Criccieth's own sunrise at 52.92°N, 4.23°W, not lifted from an India-time almanac.

Here is why this page is computed for Criccieth and not merely translated from an Indian almanac: the panchang's machinery turns on local sunrise. At 52.92°N, 4.23°W on Europe/London time, Criccieth's day starts and ends at its own hours. On 17 June 2026 the sun rises over Criccieth at 4:50 AM and sets at 9:45 PM — figures no Indian city shares — and the inauspicious periods — Rahu Kalam, Yamaganda, Gulika — along with the choghadiya sequence and Abhijit Muhurat are all slices of that local daylight, so each sits at a different clock time than it would in India. A large timezone offset can even move the tithi onto a different calendar date.

How these timings are calculated: planetary longitudes come from the Swiss Ephemeris, the same high-precision library used by professional astrology software, with the Lahiri (Chitrapaksha) ayanamsa — the sidereal reference adopted by India's official Rashtriya Panchang. Tithi changes when the Moon moves 12° ahead of the Sun; nakshatra changes as the Moon crosses each 13°20′ arc of the zodiac. These transition moments are universal, and we convert each one into Europe/London local time, then derive sunrise-dependent windows from Criccieth's own horizon. The full method is documented on our methodology page.

If you live in Criccieth or elsewhere in Wales, use this page the way a family priest would: check the tithi and nakshatra first, then choose your hour. Abhijit Muhurat (12:44 PM – 1:51 PM) is the day's most dependable auspicious window, while Rahu Kalam (1:18 PM – 3:24 PM) is best avoided for new beginnings. The choghadiya tables above divide Wednesday's daylight and night into auspicious and inauspicious spells — every figure already in Criccieth local time, with no conversion from IST required.

Read our full calculation methodology →