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May 2026
Shukravara
- Vaishakh Maas day 30 of 30
- Poornima
Sunrise
5:40 AM
Sunset
6:56 PM
Sunrise
5:39 AM 2 May
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Shukla Purnima
- until 10:53 PM
- then Krishna Pratipada
- Nakṣatra
- Swati
- until 4:35 AM
- then Vishakha
- Yoga
- Siddhi
- until 9:13 PM
- then Vyatipata
- Karaṇa
- Vishti
- until 10:00 AM
- then Bava until 10:53 PM
- then Balava
- Vāra
- Shukravara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 6:48 PM
- sets 5:03 AM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 5:40 AM
- Cala Neutral 5:40 AM – 7:19 AM
- Lābha Gain 7:19 AM – 8:59 AM
- Amṛta Best 8:59 AM – 10:38 AM
- Kāla Loss 10:38 AM – 12:18 PM
- Śubha Good 12:18 PM – 1:57 PM
- Roga Illness 1:57 PM – 3:37 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 3:37 PM – 5:16 PM
- Cala Neutral 5:16 PM – 6:56 PM
- Night from 6:56 PM
- Roga Illness 6:56 PM – 8:16 PM
- Kāla Loss 8:16 PM – 9:37 PM
- Lābha Gain 9:37 PM – 10:57 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 10:57 PM – 12:17 AM
- Śubha Good 12:17 AM – 1:38 AM
- Amṛta Best 1:38 AM – 2:58 AM
- Cala Neutral 2:58 AM – 4:19 AM
- Roga Illness 4:19 AM – 5:39 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 4:14 AM – 4:57 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 11:51 AM – 12:44 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Gulika kāla 7:19 AM – 8:59 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 10:38 AM – 12:18 PM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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Yamagaṇḍa 3:37 PM – 5:16 PM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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.