20
July 2026
Somavara
- Gupt Navratri day 6 of 8
- Kuldevi Saptami
Sunrise
5:35 AM
Sunset
7:19 PM
Sunrise
5:36 AM 21 Jul
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Shukla Saptami
- until 4:03 AM
- then Shukla Ashtami
- Nakṣatra
- Hasta
- until 7:09 PM
- then Chitra
- Yoga
- Shiva
- until 6:37 PM
- then Siddha
- Karaṇa
- Gara
- until 3:41 PM
- then Vanija until 4:03 AM
- then Vishti
- Vāra
- Somavara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 11:32 AM
- sets 11:07 PM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 5:35 AM
- Amṛta Best 5:35 AM – 7:18 AM
- Kāla Loss 7:18 AM – 9:01 AM
- Śubha Good 9:01 AM – 10:44 AM
- Roga Illness 10:44 AM – 12:27 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 12:27 PM – 2:10 PM
- Cala Neutral 2:10 PM – 3:53 PM
- Lābha Gain 3:53 PM – 5:36 PM
- Amṛta Best 5:36 PM – 7:19 PM
- Night from 7:19 PM
- Cala Neutral 7:19 PM – 8:36 PM
- Roga Illness 8:36 PM – 9:53 PM
- Kāla Loss 9:53 PM – 11:10 PM
- Lābha Gain 11:10 PM – 12:27 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 12:27 AM – 1:44 AM
- Śubha Good 1:44 AM – 3:02 AM
- Amṛta Best 3:02 AM – 4:19 AM
- Cala Neutral 4:19 AM – 5:36 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 4:13 AM – 4:54 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 12:00 PM – 12:55 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Rāhu kāla 7:18 AM – 9:01 AM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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Yamagaṇḍa 10:44 AM – 12:27 PM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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Gulika kāla 2:10 PM – 3:53 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.