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January 2026 Hindu Calendar

Use this monthly guide for Hindu date planning in January 2026. It explains the likely lunar-month overlap, observance windows, and Panchang checks to verify before you choose a civil date.

Month context

January often overlaps Pausha and Magha

Uttarayana begins around Makar Sankranti, and Magha observances start becoming important.

Hindu monthsPausha and Magha

Planning focus

Compare sunrise tithi carefully because Sankranti and lunar vratas use different rule types.

Daily Panchang table

January 2026 tithi, nakshatra, and sunrise

This crawlable month table uses Mumbai as the reference Panchang location. It gives a daily snapshot for answer engines and readers before they confirm location-specific timings on a city page.

Month startsShukla Trayodashi

Margashirsha 2082

Month endsShukla Trayodashi

Pausha 2082

Flagged dates12

Ekadashi, Purnima, Amavasya, and related checks

Daily Panchang table for January 2026 in Mumbai
Date	Tithi	Nakshatra	Yoga	Sunrise	Note
1 Jan 2026Thursday	Shukla TrayodashiMargashirsha 2082	Rohini	Shubha	07:11	Pradosha check
2 Jan 2026Friday	Shukla ChaturdashiMargashirsha 2082	Mrigashira	Shukla	07:11	Daily Panchang check
3 Jan 2026Saturday	Shukla PurnimaPausha 2082	Ardra	Brahma	07:12	Purnima
4 Jan 2026Sunday	Krishna PratipadaPausha 2082	Punarvasu	Vaidhriti	07:12	Daily Panchang check
5 Jan 2026Monday	Krishna DwitiyaPausha 2082	Pushya	Vishkambha	07:12	Daily Panchang check
6 Jan 2026Tuesday	Krishna TritiyaPausha 2082	Ashlesha	Priti	07:13	Daily Panchang check
7 Jan 2026Wednesday	Krishna PanchamiPausha 2082	Magha	Ayushman	07:13	Daily Panchang check
8 Jan 2026Thursday	Krishna ShashthiPausha 2082	Purva Phalguni	Saubhagya	07:13	Daily Panchang check
9 Jan 2026Friday	Krishna SaptamiPausha 2082	Uttara Phalguni	Shobhana	07:13	Daily Panchang check
10 Jan 2026Saturday	Krishna SaptamiPausha 2082	Hasta	Atiganda	07:13	Daily Panchang check
11 Jan 2026Sunday	Krishna AshtamiPausha 2082	Chitra	Sukarma	07:13	Ashtami
12 Jan 2026Monday	Krishna NavamiPausha 2082	Swati	Dhriti	07:14	Navami
13 Jan 2026Tuesday	Krishna DashamiPausha 2082	Vishakha	Shula	07:14	Daily Panchang check
14 Jan 2026Wednesday	Krishna EkadashiMagha 2082	Anuradha	Ganda	07:14	Ekadashi vrata check
15 Jan 2026Thursday	Krishna DwadashiMagha 2082	Jyeshtha	Vriddhi	07:14	Daily Panchang check
16 Jan 2026Friday	Krishna TrayodashiMagha 2082	Mula	Dhruva	07:14	Pradosha check
17 Jan 2026Saturday	Krishna ChaturdashiMagha 2082	Mula	Vyaghata	07:14	Daily Panchang check
18 Jan 2026Sunday	Krishna AmavasyaMagha 2082	Purva Ashadha	Harshana	07:14	Amavasya
19 Jan 2026Monday	Shukla PratipadaPausha 2082	Uttara Ashadha	Vajra	07:14	Daily Panchang check
20 Jan 2026Tuesday	Shukla DwitiyaPausha 2082	Shravana	Siddhi	07:14	Daily Panchang check
21 Jan 2026Wednesday	Shukla TritiyaPausha 2082	Dhanishta	Vyatipata	07:14	Daily Panchang check
22 Jan 2026Thursday	Shukla ChaturthiPausha 2082	Shatabhisha	Variyan	07:14	Chaturthi
23 Jan 2026Friday	Shukla PanchamiPausha 2082	Purva Bhadrapada	Parigha	07:14	Daily Panchang check
24 Jan 2026Saturday	Shukla ShashthiPausha 2082	Uttara Bhadrapada	Shiva	07:14	Daily Panchang check
25 Jan 2026Sunday	Shukla SaptamiPausha 2082	Revati	Siddha	07:14	Daily Panchang check
26 Jan 2026Monday	Shukla AshtamiPausha 2082	Ashwini	Sadhya	07:13	Ashtami
27 Jan 2026Tuesday	Shukla NavamiPausha 2082	Bharani	Shukla	07:13	Navami
28 Jan 2026Wednesday	Shukla DashamiPausha 2082	Krittika	Brahma	07:13	Daily Panchang check
29 Jan 2026Thursday	Shukla EkadashiPausha 2082	Rohini	Indra	07:13	Ekadashi vrata check
30 Jan 2026Friday	Shukla DwadashiPausha 2082	Ardra	Vaidhriti	07:13	Daily Panchang check
31 Jan 2026Saturday	Shukla TrayodashiPausha 2082	Punarvasu	Vishkambha	07:12	Pradosha check

What to watch in January

These observances often appear around this civil month, but exact dates must be calculated for 2026. Lunar tithis can shift across sunrise, evening, moonrise, or night windows.

Likely windowMakar Sankranti

Likely windowPausha Putrada Ekadashi

Likely windowMagha Gupt Navratri window

How to use this month

Civil dates do not always line up neatly with Hindu lunar days. A tithi can begin or end during the civil day, so important observances depend on which tithi prevails at the rule-specific time such as sunrise, pradosha, madhyahna, or nishita.

1.Open the interactive calendar and switch to January 2026.
2.Select candidate dates and compare tithi, paksha, nakshatra, sunrise, and sunset.
3.For festivals, confirm the rule moment: sunrise, madhyahna, pradosha, moonrise, or nishita.
4.Open the full Panchang for the chosen day before using it for a vrata, puja, travel, or ceremony.

Why the table still needs local verification

Hindu calendar dates are calculated from the Sun, Moon, and local day. A single civil month can contain parts of two Hindu lunar months, and a festival window may move into the previous or next civil month depending on the year.

Treat this Mumbai-based table as a readable reference for January 2026. Use it to understand the likely Hindu-calendar context, then rely on the city Panchang and festival pages when a vrata, puja, or ceremony depends on local sunrise, moonrise, pradosha, madhyahna, or nishita timing.

Paksha and Hindu month pages

Zoom into the fortnight windows or the underlying Hindu lunar months for January 2026. Each date in the table above also opens a full daily Panchang page.

Shukla Paksha in January 2026 Krishna Paksha in January 2026 Paush 2025 month Magh 2026 month

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