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August 2026
Shukravara
- Savan day 24 of 31
Sunrise
5:53 AM
Sunset
6:55 PM
Sunrise
5:54 AM 22 Aug
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Shukla Navami
- until 11:36 PM
- then Shukla Dashami
- Nakṣatra
- Anuradha
- until 11:53 AM
- then Jyeshtha
- Yoga
- Vaidhriti
- until 5:18 AM
- then Vishkumbha
- Karaṇa
- Balava
- until 10:26 AM
- then Kaulava until 11:36 PM
- then Taitila
- Vāra
- Shukravara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 2:07 PM
- sets —
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 5:53 AM
- Cala Neutral 5:53 AM – 7:31 AM
- Lābha Gain 7:31 AM – 9:08 AM
- Amṛta Best 9:08 AM – 10:46 AM
- Kāla Loss 10:46 AM – 12:24 PM
- Śubha Good 12:24 PM – 2:02 PM
- Roga Illness 2:02 PM – 3:39 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 3:39 PM – 5:17 PM
- Cala Neutral 5:17 PM – 6:55 PM
- Night from 6:55 PM
- Roga Illness 6:55 PM – 8:17 PM
- Kāla Loss 8:17 PM – 9:39 PM
- Lābha Gain 9:39 PM – 11:02 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 11:02 PM – 12:24 AM
- Śubha Good 12:24 AM – 1:47 AM
- Amṛta Best 1:47 AM – 3:09 AM
- Cala Neutral 3:09 AM – 4:31 AM
- Roga Illness 4:31 AM – 5:54 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 4:25 AM – 5:09 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 11:58 AM – 12:50 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Gulika kāla 7:31 AM – 9:08 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 10:46 AM – 12:24 PM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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Yamagaṇḍa 3:39 PM – 5:17 PM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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.