DAILY PANCHĀṄGA · KOCHI
Monday, 6 April 2026
WHAT MATTERS TODAY
A simple plan for the day
Use the day normally. If you are choosing a time for an important new start, prefer the supportive window and avoid beginning it during Rahu Kalam.
For a meaningful start12:02 pm–12:51 pm
Avoid new starts07:51 am–09:23 am
Why these times?
These are traditional divisions of the local solar day. They help organize timing; they do not predict or guarantee an outcome.
Tithi: Krishna Chaturthi · Nakṣatra: AnuradhaINTERACTIVE INDIAN CALENDAR
April 2026
Each date shows only the essentials. Hover or focus for timing, or use the selected-day panel.
OFFICIAL PRINCIPAL FESTIVALS
Dates to know in April 2026
Published by the Positional Astronomy Centre, India Meteorological Department, Government of India. Regional observance can differ. View official source
SHUBH MUHURAT PLANNER
Find a strong time for what matters
Choose the occasion. Jyotisya ranks transparent local Pañcāṅga candidates and shows both support and counterweights.
Choose an occasion to see the highest-priority candidate windows from Kochi.
General calendar candidates are available now. A complete personalized Muhūrta also needs a verified birth chart and a released occasion-specific tradition; real-world safety and professional facts always come first.
Full Panchāṅga details
Timing windows
| Window | Time | Traditional reading |
|---|---|---|
| Rahu Kalam | Monday, 6 April 2026 at 7:51 am IST – Monday, 6 April 2026 at 9:23 am IST | Traditionally avoided for new beginnings |
| Gulika Kalam | Monday, 6 April 2026 at 1:59 pm IST – Monday, 6 April 2026 at 3:31 pm IST | Traditionally avoided for new beginnings |
| Yamaganda | Monday, 6 April 2026 at 10:55 am IST – Monday, 6 April 2026 at 12:27 pm IST | Traditionally avoided for new beginnings |
| Abhijit Muhurta | Monday, 6 April 2026 at 12:02 pm IST – Monday, 6 April 2026 at 12:51 pm IST | Traditionally favored for observance |
| Brahma Muhurta | Monday, 6 April 2026 at 4:45 am IST – Monday, 6 April 2026 at 5:32 am IST | Traditionally favored for observance |
These are classical divisions of the solar day — planning context from tradition, not predictions or warnings about outcomes.
This is the sky's calendar. Your chart is how it lands for you.
The panchāṅga is the same for everyone in Kochi today. Personal reflection depends on your own birth chart — your daśā period, transits and houses. Jyotisya calculates those factors in about a minute, free, and lets you inspect the evidence and limits behind the reference reading.
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How this is calculated
- All positions use the same pinned astronomy engine and Lahiri IAE ayanamsha as the birth-chart engine, so the almanac and a chart calculated for the same instant always agree.
- The five limbs are stated as of local sunrise; each limb's end time is the instant its defining angle crosses the next classical boundary (tithi and karana from the Sun-Moon elongation, nitya yoga from the Sun+Moon sum in sidereal longitude, nakshatra from the sidereal Moon).
- Rahu Kalam, Gulika Kalam and Yamaganda divide sunrise-to-sunset into eight equal segments selected by weekday; Abhijit muhurta is the eighth of fifteen equal day muhurtas; Brahma muhurta is the second-to-last night muhurta pair before sunrise.
- Timing windows are classical day divisions for planning and observance. They are not predictions, guarantees or warnings about what will happen.
- Cities outside the tropics can have distorted windows near solstices; the computation still uses the actual local sunrise and sunset for that date.
- Principal festival source layer: Rashtriya Panchang, Positional Astronomy Centre, India Meteorological Department. Regional variants remain separately labelled.