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वाराणसी (Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh
A free kundli for people born in Varanasi (25.3176°N, 82.9739°E): enter your date and exact time, and we calculate your lagna, rashi, nakshatra and house chart.
Varanasi is prefilled and editable. Enter the time on your birth record; do not add the solar-time offset yourself. Coordinates are approximate city ones, and Rahu and Ketu are not included.
IST (UTC+5:30) is anchored at 82.5°E, near Mirzapur. Varanasi sits at 82.9739°E, so its local solar time runs roughly 2 minutes ahead of clock time, and that offset carries into the lagna and house cusps.
These figures are calculated from Varanasi's coordinates (25.3176°N, 82.9739°E) with an astronomical ephemeris, not estimated. All clock times are Indian Standard Time (IST).
| Date (2026) | Sunrise | Sunset | Day length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 Mar (equinox) | 06:02 | 18:09 | 12h 7m |
| 21 Jun (longest day) | 05:08 | 18:51 | 13h 43m |
| 23 Sep (equinox) | 05:46 | 17:53 | 12h 7m |
| 21 Dec (shortest day) | 06:39 | 17:12 | 10h 34m |
Day length in Varanasi swings by 3h 9m between the longest and shortest day, the 13th largest of the 30 cities on this site. Its 21 June sunrise at 05:08 IST is the 3rd earliest of the 30. That is 16 minutes before Delhi's 21 June sunrise.
A worked example of the effect on lagna: at 06:00 IST on 21 June 2026 the sidereal ascendant in Varanasi is Gemini, and it moves into Cancer at 07:04 IST. At the same latitude on the 82.5°E IST meridian that change happens at 07:05 IST, so in Varanasi it comes 1 minutes earlier than on the meridian.
The same test in winter: at 06:00 IST on 21 December 2026 the ascendant in Varanasi is Scorpio, moving into Sagittarius at 06:22 IST, against 06:24 IST on the 82.5°E meridian, so 2 minutes earlier than the meridian. That is a different sign from the June example because the Sun has moved on.
The closest other city on this site to Varanasi is Patna, 219 km away. It has solar time 9 minutes ahead of Varanasi, a 21 June sunrise 9 minutes earlier and a day-length swing 2 minutes larger.
Method: ephemeris sunrise/sunset (sea level, with refraction); ascendant from mean obliquity and Lahiri ayanamsa. Other software may differ by a minute or two.
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Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh) lies at 82.9739°E, so its local time runs about 2 minutes ahead of IST, which is set at 82.5°E. Lagna and house boundaries depend on that, so the right city matters even though India uses one clock.
Near a sign boundary, yes. By our calculation, on 21 June 2026 the Gemini ascendant in Varanasi moves into Cancer at 07:04 IST, while at the same latitude on 82.5°E it does so at 07:05 IST. A birth between those two times gets a different lagna depending on the place used.
By our calculation, on 21 June 2026 the Sun rises in Varanasi at 05:08 IST and sets at 18:51 IST, while on 21 December it rises at 06:39 IST. Vara (weekday) and many panchang calculations start from local sunrise, so for a birth near dawn both the place and the date change the answer.
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