4
May 2026
Somavara
Sunrise
5:37 AM
Sunset
6:58 PM
Sunrise
5:37 AM 5 May
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Krishna Tritiya
- until 5:24 AM
- then Krishna Chaturthi
- Nakṣatra
- Anuradha
- until 9:58 AM
- then Jyeshtha
- Yoga
- Parigha
- until 11:19 PM
- then Shiva
- Karaṇa
- Vanija
- until 4:12 PM
- then Vishti until 5:24 AM
- then Bava
- Vāra
- Somavara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 9:37 PM
- sets 6:56 AM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 5:37 AM
- Amṛta Best 5:37 AM – 7:17 AM
- Kāla Loss 7:17 AM – 8:57 AM
- Śubha Good 8:57 AM – 10:37 AM
- Roga Illness 10:37 AM – 12:17 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 12:17 PM – 1:57 PM
- Cala Neutral 1:57 PM – 3:38 PM
- Lābha Gain 3:38 PM – 5:18 PM
- Amṛta Best 5:18 PM – 6:58 PM
- Night from 6:58 PM
- Cala Neutral 6:58 PM – 8:17 PM
- Roga Illness 8:17 PM – 9:37 PM
- Kāla Loss 9:37 PM – 10:57 PM
- Lābha Gain 10:57 PM – 12:17 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 12:17 AM – 1:37 AM
- Śubha Good 1:37 AM – 2:57 AM
- Amṛta Best 2:57 AM – 4:17 AM
- Cala Neutral 4:17 AM – 5:37 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 4:12 AM – 4:55 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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Rāhu kāla 7:17 AM – 8:57 AM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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Yamagaṇḍa 10:37 AM – 12:17 PM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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Gulika kāla 1:57 PM – 3:38 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.