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December 2025
Budhavara
Sunrise
7:07 AM
Sunset
5:27 PM
Sunrise
7:08 AM 18 Dec
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Krishna Trayodashi
- until 2:33 AM
- then Krishna Chaturdashi
- Nakṣatra
- Vishakha
- until 5:11 PM
- then Anuradha
- Yoga
- Sukarma
- until 2:16 PM
- then Dhriti
- Karaṇa
- Gara
- until 1:16 PM
- then Vanija until 2:33 AM
- then Vishti
- Vāra
- Budhavara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 4:41 AM
- sets 3:11 PM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 7:07 AM
- Lābha Gain 7:07 AM – 8:24 AM
- Amṛta Best 8:24 AM – 9:42 AM
- Kāla Loss 9:42 AM – 10:59 AM
- Śubha Good 10:59 AM – 12:17 PM
- Roga Illness 12:17 PM – 1:34 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 1:34 PM – 2:52 PM
- Cala Neutral 2:52 PM – 4:09 PM
- Lābha Gain 4:09 PM – 5:27 PM
- Night from 5:27 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 5:27 PM – 7:09 PM
- Śubha Good 7:09 PM – 8:52 PM
- Amṛta Best 8:52 PM – 10:34 PM
- Cala Neutral 10:34 PM – 12:17 AM
- Roga Illness 12:17 AM – 2:00 AM
- Kāla Loss 2:00 AM – 3:42 AM
- Lābha Gain 3:42 AM – 5:25 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 5:25 AM – 7:08 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 5:18 AM – 6:12 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 11:56 AM – 12:37 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods — but many traditions do not observe it on a Wednesday.
Inauspicious
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Yamagaṇḍa 8:24 AM – 9:42 AM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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Gulika kāla 10:59 AM – 12:17 PM
Held to make what is begun in it repeat, so it is avoided for anything one would not want again.
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Rāhu kāla 12:17 PM – 1:34 PM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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.