16
November 2026
Somavara
- Kartik Maas day 22 of 30
- Kuldevi Saptami
- Sankranti
Sunrise
6:44 AM
Sunset
5:27 PM
Sunrise
6:45 AM 17 Nov
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Shukla Saptami
- until 4:20 AM
- then Shukla Ashtami
- Nakṣatra
- Shravana
- until 2:17 AM
- then Dhanishta
- Yoga
- Ganda
- until 7:16 AM
- then Vriddhi
- Karaṇa
- Gara
- until 3:14 PM
- then Vanija until 4:20 AM
- then Vishti
- Vāra
- Somavara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 12:16 PM
- sets 11:14 PM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 6:44 AM
- Amṛta Best 6:44 AM – 8:04 AM
- Kāla Loss 8:04 AM – 9:25 AM
- Śubha Good 9:25 AM – 10:45 AM
- Roga Illness 10:45 AM – 12:05 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 12:05 PM – 1:26 PM
- Cala Neutral 1:26 PM – 2:46 PM
- Lābha Gain 2:46 PM – 4:07 PM
- Amṛta Best 4:07 PM – 5:27 PM
- Night from 5:27 PM
- Cala Neutral 5:27 PM – 7:07 PM
- Roga Illness 7:07 PM – 8:46 PM
- Kāla Loss 8:46 PM – 10:26 PM
- Lābha Gain 10:26 PM – 12:06 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 12:06 AM – 1:46 AM
- Śubha Good 1:46 AM – 3:25 AM
- Amṛta Best 3:25 AM – 5:05 AM
- Cala Neutral 5:05 AM – 6:45 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 4:58 AM – 5:51 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 11:44 AM – 12:27 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Rāhu kāla 8:04 AM – 9:25 AM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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Yamagaṇḍa 10:45 AM – 12:05 PM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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Gulika kāla 1:26 PM – 2:46 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.