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December 2026
Somavara
- Margashirsha Maas day 28 of 30
Sunrise
7:09 AM
Sunset
5:28 PM
Sunrise
7:09 AM 22 Dec
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Shukla Dwadashi
- until 5:36 PM
- then Shukla Trayodashi
- Nakṣatra
- Bharani
- until 1:09 PM
- then Krittika
- Yoga
- Siddha
- until 1:32 AM
- then Sadhya
- Karaṇa
- Balava
- until 5:36 PM
- then Kaulava until 4:04 AM
- then Taitila
- Vāra
- Somavara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 2:39 PM
- sets 3:56 AM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 7:09 AM
- Amṛta Best 7:09 AM – 8:26 AM
- Kāla Loss 8:26 AM – 9:44 AM
- Śubha Good 9:44 AM – 11:01 AM
- Roga Illness 11:01 AM – 12:19 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 12:19 PM – 1:36 PM
- Cala Neutral 1:36 PM – 2:53 PM
- Lābha Gain 2:53 PM – 4:11 PM
- Amṛta Best 4:11 PM – 5:28 PM
- Night from 5:28 PM
- Cala Neutral 5:28 PM – 7:11 PM
- Roga Illness 7:11 PM – 8:54 PM
- Kāla Loss 8:54 PM – 10:36 PM
- Lābha Gain 10:36 PM – 12:19 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 12:19 AM – 2:02 AM
- Śubha Good 2:02 AM – 3:44 AM
- Amṛta Best 3:44 AM – 5:27 AM
- Cala Neutral 5:27 AM – 7:09 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 5:19 AM – 6:14 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 11:58 AM – 12:39 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Rāhu kāla 8:26 AM – 9:44 AM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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Yamagaṇḍa 11:01 AM – 12:19 PM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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Gulika kāla 1:36 PM – 2:53 PM
Held to make what is begun in it repeat, so it is avoided for anything one would not want again.
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.