Colonial Heights Panchang

About Panchang in Colonial Heights

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 Colonial Heights, Virginia on 18 June 2026: the day runs under the Shukla Paksha Chaturthi tithi with the Moon in Ashlesha nakshatra, and all auspicious and inauspicious windows are computed for Colonial Heights itself, not borrowed from a generic India-time table.

Here is why this page is computed for Colonial Heights and not merely translated from an Indian almanac: the panchang's machinery turns on local sunrise. At 37.27°N, 77.41°W on America/New York time, Colonial Heights's day starts and ends at its own hours. On 18 June 2026 the sun rises over Colonial Heights at 5:49 AM and sets at 8:32 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 America/New York local time, then derive sunrise-dependent windows from Colonial Heights's own horizon. The full method is documented on our methodology page.

If you live in Colonial Heights or elsewhere in Virginia, use this page the way a family priest would: check the tithi and nakshatra first, then choose your hour. Abhijit Muhurat (12:41 PM – 1:40 PM) is the day's most dependable auspicious window, while Rahu Kalam (3:01 PM – 4:51 PM) is best avoided for new beginnings. The choghadiya tables above divide Thursday's daylight and night into auspicious and inauspicious spells — every figure already in Colonial Heights local time, with no conversion from IST required.

Read our full calculation methodology →