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August 2026
Somavara
Sunrise
5:43 AM
Sunset
7:11 PM
Sunrise
5:44 AM 4 Aug
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Krishna Panchami
- until 10:54 PM
- then Krishna Shashthi
- Nakṣatra
- Uttara Bhadrapada
- until 10:00 PM
- then Revati
- Yoga
- Sukarma
- until 9:13 PM
- then Dhriti
- Karaṇa
- Kaulava
- until 11:08 AM
- then Taitila until 10:54 PM
- then Gara
- Vāra
- Somavara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 9:50 PM
- sets 9:53 AM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 5:43 AM
- Amṛta Best 5:43 AM – 7:24 AM
- Kāla Loss 7:24 AM – 9:05 AM
- Śubha Good 9:05 AM – 10:46 AM
- Roga Illness 10:46 AM – 12:27 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 12:27 PM – 2:08 PM
- Cala Neutral 2:08 PM – 3:49 PM
- Lābha Gain 3:49 PM – 5:30 PM
- Amṛta Best 5:30 PM – 7:11 PM
- Night from 7:11 PM
- Cala Neutral 7:11 PM – 8:30 PM
- Roga Illness 8:30 PM – 9:49 PM
- Kāla Loss 9:49 PM – 11:08 PM
- Lābha Gain 11:08 PM – 12:27 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 12:27 AM – 1:46 AM
- Śubha Good 1:46 AM – 3:05 AM
- Amṛta Best 3:05 AM – 4:25 AM
- Cala Neutral 4:25 AM – 5:44 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 4:19 AM – 5:01 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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Rāhu kāla 7:24 AM – 9:05 AM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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Yamagaṇḍa 10:46 AM – 12:27 PM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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Gulika kāla 2:08 PM – 3:49 PM
Held to make what is begun in it repeat, so it is avoided for anything one would not want again.
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.