28
January 2026
Budhavara
Sunrise
7:11 AM
Sunset
5:56 PM
Sunrise
7:10 AM 29 Jan
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Shukla Dashami
- until 4:36 PM
- then Shukla Ekadashi
- Nakṣatra
- Krittika
- until 9:27 AM
- then Rohini
- Yoga
- Brahma
- until 11:54 PM
- then Indra
- Karaṇa
- Gara
- until 4:36 PM
- then Vanija until 3:17 AM
- then Vishti
- Vāra
- Budhavara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 1:02 PM
- sets 2:38 AM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 7:11 AM
- Lābha Gain 7:11 AM – 8:31 AM
- Amṛta Best 8:31 AM – 9:52 AM
- Kāla Loss 9:52 AM – 11:13 AM
- Śubha Good 11:13 AM – 12:34 PM
- Roga Illness 12:34 PM – 1:54 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 1:54 PM – 3:15 PM
- Cala Neutral 3:15 PM – 4:36 PM
- Lābha Gain 4:36 PM – 5:56 PM
- Night from 5:56 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 5:56 PM – 7:36 PM
- Śubha Good 7:36 PM – 9:15 PM
- Amṛta Best 9:15 PM – 10:54 PM
- Cala Neutral 10:54 PM – 12:33 AM
- Roga Illness 12:33 AM – 2:13 AM
- Kāla Loss 2:13 AM – 3:52 AM
- Lābha Gain 3:52 AM – 5:31 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 5:31 AM – 7:10 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 5:25 AM – 6:18 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 12:12 PM – 12:55 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods — but many traditions do not observe it on a Wednesday.
Inauspicious
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Yamagaṇḍa 8:31 AM – 9:52 AM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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Gulika kāla 11:13 AM – 12:34 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 12:34 PM – 1:54 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.