Alta Sierra Panchang

About Panchang in Alta Sierra

Think of the panchang as the Hindu day's instruction sheet: five limbs — tithi (lunar day), nakshatra (the Moon's mansion), yoga, karana and vara — that tell you what each day favours. For Alta Sierra, California on 20 June 2026 the sheet reads Shukla Paksha Saptami tithi with the Moon in Purva Phalguni nakshatra. Every window further down is computed for Alta Sierra's location (39.14°N, 121.05°W) rather than copied from a standard Indian-city table.

Location is not a detail in panchang work — it is the foundation. Alta Sierra, at 39.14°N, 121.05°W in the America/Los Angeles zone, experiences a day that opens and closes on its own schedule rather than India's. On 20 June 2026 the sun rises over Alta Sierra at 5:38 AM and sets at 8:33 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 America/Los Angeles time and slice every sunrise-dependent period from Alta Sierra's own daylight. Each step is set out on our methodology page.

Treat this as your scheduling companion in Alta Sierra: before fixing a puja, griha pravesh, mundan, vehicle purchase or journey on Saturday, 20 June 2026, read the tithi and nakshatra, then pick the hour. Abhijit Muhurat (12:36 PM – 1:35 PM) is the day's most dependable auspicious window, while Rahu Kalam (9:22 AM – 11:14 AM) is best avoided for new beginnings. The choghadiya tables above split the day and night of Saturday into auspicious and inauspicious spells — every figure already converted to Alta Sierra local time, so what you read is what your clock shows.

Read our full calculation methodology →