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April 2026
Somavara
- Vaishakh Maas day 19 of 30
Sunrise
5:50 AM
Sunset
6:49 PM
Sunrise
5:49 AM 21 Apr
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Shukla Tritiya
- until 7:28 AM
- then Shukla Chaturthi until 4:15 AM
- then Shukla Panchami
- Nakṣatra
- Rohini
- until 2:08 AM
- then Mrigashira
- Yoga
- Saubhagya
- until 4:11 PM
- then Shobhana
- Karaṇa
- Gara
- until 7:28 AM
- then Vanija until 5:49 PM
- then Vishti until 4:15 AM
- then Bava
- Vāra
- Somavara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 7:39 AM
- sets 10:25 PM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 5:50 AM
- Amṛta Best 5:50 AM – 7:27 AM
- Kāla Loss 7:27 AM – 9:05 AM
- Śubha Good 9:05 AM – 10:42 AM
- Roga Illness 10:42 AM – 12:20 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 12:20 PM – 1:57 PM
- Cala Neutral 1:57 PM – 3:34 PM
- Lābha Gain 3:34 PM – 5:12 PM
- Amṛta Best 5:12 PM – 6:49 PM
- Night from 6:49 PM
- Cala Neutral 6:49 PM – 8:12 PM
- Roga Illness 8:12 PM – 9:34 PM
- Kāla Loss 9:34 PM – 10:57 PM
- Lābha Gain 10:57 PM – 12:19 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 12:19 AM – 1:42 AM
- Śubha Good 1:42 AM – 3:04 AM
- Amṛta Best 3:04 AM – 4:27 AM
- Cala Neutral 4:27 AM – 5:49 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 4:22 AM – 5:06 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 11:54 AM – 12:46 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Rāhu kāla 7:27 AM – 9:05 AM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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Yamagaṇḍa 10:42 AM – 12:20 PM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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Gulika kāla 1:57 PM – 3:34 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.