28
July 2026
Mangalavara
Sunrise
5:40 AM
Sunset
7:15 PM
Sunrise
5:40 AM 29 Jul
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Shukla Chaturdashi
- until 6:19 PM
- then Shukla Purnima
- Nakṣatra
- Purva Ashadha
- until 1:11 PM
- then Uttara Ashadha
- Yoga
- Vishkumbha
- until 11:33 PM
- then Priti
- Karaṇa
- Vanija
- until 6:19 PM
- then Vishti
- Vāra
- Mangalavara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 6:38 PM
- sets 4:09 AM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 5:40 AM
- Roga Illness 5:40 AM – 7:22 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 7:22 AM – 9:04 AM
- Cala Neutral 9:04 AM – 10:45 AM
- Lābha Gain 10:45 AM – 12:27 PM
- Amṛta Best 12:27 PM – 2:09 PM
- Kāla Loss 2:09 PM – 3:51 PM
- Śubha Good 3:51 PM – 5:33 PM
- Roga Illness 5:33 PM – 7:15 PM
- Night from 7:15 PM
- Kāla Loss 7:15 PM – 8:33 PM
- Lābha Gain 8:33 PM – 9:51 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 9:51 PM – 11:09 PM
- Śubha Good 11:09 PM – 12:27 AM
- Amṛta Best 12:27 AM – 1:46 AM
- Cala Neutral 1:46 AM – 3:04 AM
- Roga Illness 3:04 AM – 4:22 AM
- Kāla Loss 4:22 AM – 5:40 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 4:17 AM – 4:58 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 12:00 PM – 12:54 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Yamagaṇḍa 9:04 AM – 10:45 AM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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Gulika kāla 12:27 PM – 2:09 PM
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 3:51 PM – 5:33 PM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
Cāturmāsya — in progress, 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.