Braintree Panchang

About Panchang in Braintree

The panchang — Sanskrit for "five limbs" — is the Hindu calendar that describes a day by its tithi (lunar day), nakshatra (lunar mansion), yoga, karana and vara (weekday). What you see here is the full panchang for Braintree, Massachusetts on 15 June 2026: the day runs under the Shukla Paksha Pratipada tithi with the Moon in Mrigashira nakshatra, and all auspicious and inauspicious windows are computed for Braintree itself, not borrowed from a generic India-time table.

Location is not a detail in panchang work — it is the foundation. Braintree, at 42.20°N, 71.00°W in the America/New York zone, experiences a day that opens and closes on its own schedule rather than India's. On 15 June 2026 the sun rises over Braintree at 5:07 AM and sets at 8:21 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/New York time and slice every sunrise-dependent period from Braintree's own daylight. Each step is set out on our methodology page.

Treat this as your scheduling companion in Braintree: before fixing a puja, griha pravesh, mundan, vehicle purchase or journey on Monday, 15 June 2026, read the tithi and nakshatra, then pick the hour. Abhijit Muhurat (12:14 PM – 1:15 PM) is the day's most dependable auspicious window, while Rahu Kalam (7:01 AM – 8:55 AM) is best avoided for new beginnings. The choghadiya tables above split the day and night of Monday into auspicious and inauspicious spells — every figure already converted to Braintree local time, so what you read is what your clock shows.

Read our full calculation methodology →