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December 2025
Somavara
Sunrise
7:01 AM
Sunset
5:24 PM
Sunrise
7:02 AM 9 Dec
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Krishna Chaturthi
- until 4:03 PM
- then Krishna Panchami
- Nakṣatra
- Pushya
- until 2:52 AM
- then Ashlesha
- Yoga
- Brahma
- until 5:01 PM
- then Indra
- Karaṇa
- Balava
- until 4:03 PM
- then Kaulava until 3:10 AM
- then Taitila
- Vāra
- Somavara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 9:05 PM
- sets 10:22 AM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 7:01 AM
- Amṛta Best 7:01 AM – 8:19 AM
- Kāla Loss 8:19 AM – 9:37 AM
- Śubha Good 9:37 AM – 10:55 AM
- Roga Illness 10:55 AM – 12:13 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 12:13 PM – 1:30 PM
- Cala Neutral 1:30 PM – 2:48 PM
- Lābha Gain 2:48 PM – 4:06 PM
- Amṛta Best 4:06 PM – 5:24 PM
- Night from 5:24 PM
- Cala Neutral 5:24 PM – 7:06 PM
- Roga Illness 7:06 PM – 8:48 PM
- Kāla Loss 8:48 PM – 10:31 PM
- Lābha Gain 10:31 PM – 12:13 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 12:13 AM – 1:55 AM
- Śubha Good 1:55 AM – 3:37 AM
- Amṛta Best 3:37 AM – 5:20 AM
- Cala Neutral 5:20 AM – 7:02 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 5:12 AM – 6:07 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 11:52 AM – 12:33 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Rāhu kāla 8:19 AM – 9:37 AM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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Yamagaṇḍa 10:55 AM – 12:13 PM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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Gulika kāla 1:30 PM – 2:48 PM
Held to make what is begun in it repeat, so it is avoided for anything one would not want again.
Cāturmāsya — next runs 24 Jul 2026 to 20 Nov 2026, from Devaśayanī Ekādaśī in Āṣāḍha to Prabodhinī Ekādaśī in Kārtika.
The choghaḍiyā and the periods above are marked customary: they are widely kept practice, and no text this site publishes prescribes them yet. The aṅgas, sunrise and sunset are computed and exact.
Computed with dṛk gaṇita (observation-based) and the Lahiri (Citrāpakṣa) ayanāṁśa, from the Swiss Ephemeris. The day's aṅgas are those running at sunrise. How dates are computed.