1
April 2026
Budhavara
Sunrise
6:11 AM
Sunset
6:38 PM
Sunrise
6:10 AM 2 Apr
Drag the bar, or press ← and → to move a minute at a time — hold shift for fifteen.
The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Shukla Chaturdashi
- until 7:06 AM
- then Shukla Purnima
- Nakṣatra
- Uttara Phalguni
- until 4:17 PM
- then Hasta
- Yoga
- Vriddhi
- until 2:50 PM
- then Dhruva
- Karaṇa
- Vanija
- until 7:06 AM
- then Vishti until 7:21 PM
- then Bava
- Vāra
- Budhavara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 6:06 PM
- sets 5:32 AM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 6:11 AM
- Lābha Gain 6:11 AM – 7:44 AM
- Amṛta Best 7:44 AM – 9:18 AM
- Kāla Loss 9:18 AM – 10:51 AM
- Śubha Good 10:51 AM – 12:25 PM
- Roga Illness 12:25 PM – 1:58 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 1:58 PM – 3:32 PM
- Cala Neutral 3:32 PM – 5:05 PM
- Lābha Gain 5:05 PM – 6:38 PM
- Night from 6:38 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 6:38 PM – 8:05 PM
- Śubha Good 8:05 PM – 9:31 PM
- Amṛta Best 9:31 PM – 10:58 PM
- Cala Neutral 10:58 PM – 12:24 AM
- Roga Illness 12:24 AM – 1:50 AM
- Kāla Loss 1:50 AM – 3:17 AM
- Lābha Gain 3:17 AM – 4:43 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 4:43 AM – 6:10 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
-
Brāhma muhūrta 4:38 AM – 5:25 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
-
Abhijit muhūrta 12:00 PM – 12:50 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods — but many traditions do not observe it on a Wednesday.
Inauspicious
-
Yamagaṇḍa 7:44 AM – 9:18 AM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
-
Gulika kāla 10:51 AM – 12:25 PM
Held to make what is begun in it repeat, so it is avoided for anything one would not want again.
-
Rāhu kāla 12:25 PM – 1:58 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.