28
September 2026
Somavara
- Pitr Paksha day 2 of 14
- Dooj
Sunrise
6:12 AM
Sunset
6:11 PM
Sunrise
6:13 AM 29 Sep
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Krishna Dwitiya
- until 7:14 PM
- then Krishna Tritiya
- Nakṣatra
- Revati
- until 10:16 AM
- then Ashwini
- Yoga
- Dhruva
- until 8:53 AM
- then Vyaghata
- Karaṇa
- Taitila
- until 8:09 AM
- then Gara until 7:14 PM
- then Vanija
- Vāra
- Somavara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 7:00 PM
- sets 7:38 AM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 6:12 AM
- Amṛta Best 6:12 AM – 7:42 AM
- Kāla Loss 7:42 AM – 9:12 AM
- Śubha Good 9:12 AM – 10:42 AM
- Roga Illness 10:42 AM – 12:11 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 12:11 PM – 1:41 PM
- Cala Neutral 1:41 PM – 3:11 PM
- Lābha Gain 3:11 PM – 4:41 PM
- Amṛta Best 4:41 PM – 6:11 PM
- Night from 6:11 PM
- Cala Neutral 6:11 PM – 7:41 PM
- Roga Illness 7:41 PM – 9:11 PM
- Kāla Loss 9:11 PM – 10:41 PM
- Lābha Gain 10:41 PM – 12:12 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 12:12 AM – 1:42 AM
- Śubha Good 1:42 AM – 3:12 AM
- Amṛta Best 3:12 AM – 4:42 AM
- Cala Neutral 4:42 AM – 6:13 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 4:36 AM – 5:24 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 11:47 AM – 12:35 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Rāhu kāla 7:42 AM – 9:12 AM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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Yamagaṇḍa 10:42 AM – 12:11 PM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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Gulika kāla 1:41 PM – 3:11 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.