Chennai — Tuesday, 17 August 2027
Chennai. Sunrise 5:56 am, sunset 6:29 pm — the day runs to sunrise at 5:56 am tomorrow.
Today
Pournami
The full-moon tithi runs at sunrise.
The five limbs
Tithi · Shukla Pournami
until 12:58 pm
Nakshatra · Dhanishta
until 2:32 am tomorrow
Yoga · Shobhana
until 1:37 am tomorrow
Karana · Bava
until 12:58 pm
Windows
Rahu kalam
3:21 pm – 4:55 pm
Avoid beginning something new. Work already under way is not affected.
Yamagandam
9:04 am – 10:38 am
Not taken for starting a journey or a new undertaking.
Gulikai
12:13 pm – 1:47 pm
Generally avoided for beginnings; some households treat it as unrestricted.
About this day
Daylight runs 12 hours 33 minutes — 33 minutes longer than an even twelve, so every window below is stretched wider than at the equinox.
The nakshatra and yoga run past midnight and end after tomorrow's sunrise, so they name two civil days.
The first change today is the karana, at 12:58 pm.
Rahu kalam takes the seventh of the eight parts of daylight on a Tuesday, which puts it at 3:21 pm here.
Rahu kalam, yamagandam and gulikai · how each value is calculated · why the day starts at sunrise
Swiss Ephemeris, Lahiri ayanamsha, at Bengaluru's own horizon. The day runs sunrise to sunrise, so the limb named here is the one running at sunrise. Windows are eighths of the daylight.