8
January 2026
Guruvara
Sunrise
7:14 AM
Sunset
5:40 PM
Sunrise
7:15 AM 9 Jan
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Krishna Shashthi
- until 7:05 AM
- then Krishna Saptami
- Nakṣatra
- Purva Phalguni
- until 12:24 PM
- then Uttara Phalguni
- Yoga
- Saubhagya
- until 5:25 PM
- then Shobhana
- Karaṇa
- Gara
- until 6:43 PM
- then Vanija until 7:05 AM
- then Vishti
- Vāra
- Guruvara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 10:53 PM
- sets 10:38 AM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 7:14 AM
- Śubha Good 7:14 AM – 8:33 AM
- Roga Illness 8:33 AM – 9:51 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 9:51 AM – 11:09 AM
- Cala Neutral 11:09 AM – 12:27 PM
- Lābha Gain 12:27 PM – 1:45 PM
- Amṛta Best 1:45 PM – 3:04 PM
- Kāla Loss 3:04 PM – 4:22 PM
- Śubha Good 4:22 PM – 5:40 PM
- Night from 5:40 PM
- Amṛta Best 5:40 PM – 7:22 PM
- Cala Neutral 7:22 PM – 9:04 PM
- Roga Illness 9:04 PM – 10:45 PM
- Kāla Loss 10:45 PM – 12:27 AM
- Lābha Gain 12:27 AM – 2:09 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 2:09 AM – 3:51 AM
- Śubha Good 3:51 AM – 5:33 AM
- Amṛta Best 5:33 AM – 7:15 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 5:26 AM – 6:20 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 12:06 PM – 12:48 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Yamagaṇḍa 7:14 AM – 8:33 AM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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Gulika kāla 9:51 AM – 11:09 AM
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 1:45 PM – 3:04 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.