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January 2026
Somavara
- Gupt Navratri day 1 of 9
Sunrise
7:14 AM
Sunset
5:49 PM
Sunrise
7:13 AM 20 Jan
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Shukla Pratipada
- until 2:14 AM
- then Shukla Dwitiya
- Nakṣatra
- Uttara Ashadha
- until 11:52 AM
- then Shravana
- Yoga
- Vajra
- until 8:45 PM
- then Siddhi
- Karaṇa
- Kimstughna
- until 1:51 PM
- then Bava until 2:14 AM
- then Balava
- Vāra
- Somavara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 7:40 AM
- sets 6:19 PM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 7:14 AM
- Amṛta Best 7:14 AM – 8:33 AM
- Kāla Loss 8:33 AM – 9:53 AM
- Śubha Good 9:53 AM – 11:12 AM
- Roga Illness 11:12 AM – 12:31 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 12:31 PM – 1:51 PM
- Cala Neutral 1:51 PM – 3:10 PM
- Lābha Gain 3:10 PM – 4:30 PM
- Amṛta Best 4:30 PM – 5:49 PM
- Night from 5:49 PM
- Cala Neutral 5:49 PM – 7:30 PM
- Roga Illness 7:30 PM – 9:10 PM
- Kāla Loss 9:10 PM – 10:51 PM
- Lābha Gain 10:51 PM – 12:31 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 12:31 AM – 2:12 AM
- Śubha Good 2:12 AM – 3:52 AM
- Amṛta Best 3:52 AM – 5:33 AM
- Cala Neutral 5:33 AM – 7:13 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 12:10 PM – 12:52 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Rāhu kāla 8:33 AM – 9:53 AM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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Yamagaṇḍa 11:12 AM – 12:31 PM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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Gulika kāla 1:51 PM – 3:10 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.