16
December 2026
Budhavara
- Margashirsha Maas day 23 of 30
- Kuldevi Saptami
- Sankranti
Sunrise
7:06 AM
Sunset
5:26 PM
Sunrise
7:07 AM 17 Dec
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Shukla Saptami
- until 10:46 PM
- then Shukla Ashtami
- Nakṣatra
- Shatabhisha
- until 2:02 PM
- then Purva Bhadrapada
- Yoga
- Vajra
- until 1:46 PM
- then Siddhi
- Karaṇa
- Gara
- until 10:08 AM
- then Vanija until 10:46 PM
- then Vishti
- Vāra
- Budhavara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 11:47 AM
- sets 11:51 PM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 7:06 AM
- Lābha Gain 7:06 AM – 8:24 AM
- Amṛta Best 8:24 AM – 9:41 AM
- Kāla Loss 9:41 AM – 10:59 AM
- Śubha Good 10:59 AM – 12:16 PM
- Roga Illness 12:16 PM – 1:34 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 1:34 PM – 2:51 PM
- Cala Neutral 2:51 PM – 4:09 PM
- Lābha Gain 4:09 PM – 5:26 PM
- Night from 5:26 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 5:26 PM – 7:09 PM
- Śubha Good 7:09 PM – 8:51 PM
- Amṛta Best 8:51 PM – 10:34 PM
- Cala Neutral 10:34 PM – 12:16 AM
- Roga Illness 12:16 AM – 1:59 AM
- Kāla Loss 1:59 AM – 3:42 AM
- Lābha Gain 3:42 AM – 5:24 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 5:24 AM – 7:07 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 5:17 AM – 6:12 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 11:56 AM – 12:37 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods — but many traditions do not observe it on a Wednesday.
Inauspicious
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Yamagaṇḍa 8:24 AM – 9:41 AM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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Gulika kāla 10:59 AM – 12:16 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 12:16 PM – 1:34 PM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
Cāturmāsya — next runs 13 Jul 2027 to 9 Nov 2027, 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.