5
January 2026
Somavara
Sunrise
7:14 AM
Sunset
5:38 PM
Sunrise
7:14 AM 6 Jan
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Krishna Dwitiya
- until 9:57 AM
- then Krishna Tritiya
- Nakṣatra
- Pushya
- until 1:25 PM
- then Ashlesha
- Yoga
- Vishkumbha
- until 10:47 PM
- then Priti
- Karaṇa
- Gara
- until 9:57 AM
- then Vanija until 8:54 PM
- then Vishti
- Vāra
- Somavara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 7:50 PM
- sets 8:55 AM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 7:14 AM
- Amṛta Best 7:14 AM – 8:32 AM
- Kāla Loss 8:32 AM – 9:50 AM
- Śubha Good 9:50 AM – 11:08 AM
- Roga Illness 11:08 AM – 12:26 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 12:26 PM – 1:44 PM
- Cala Neutral 1:44 PM – 3:02 PM
- Lābha Gain 3:02 PM – 4:20 PM
- Amṛta Best 4:20 PM – 5:38 PM
- Night from 5:38 PM
- Cala Neutral 5:38 PM – 7:20 PM
- Roga Illness 7:20 PM – 9:02 PM
- Kāla Loss 9:02 PM – 10:44 PM
- Lābha Gain 10:44 PM – 12:26 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 12:26 AM – 2:08 AM
- Śubha Good 2:08 AM – 3:50 AM
- Amṛta Best 3:50 AM – 5:32 AM
- Cala Neutral 5:32 AM – 7:14 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 5:25 AM – 6:20 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 12:05 PM – 12:47 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Rāhu kāla 8:32 AM – 9:50 AM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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Yamagaṇḍa 11:08 AM – 12:26 PM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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Gulika kāla 1:44 PM – 3:02 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.