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December 2026
Mangalavara
- Margashirsha Maas day 29 of 30
Sunrise
7:09 AM
Sunset
5:29 PM
Sunrise
7:10 AM 23 Dec
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Shukla Trayodashi
- until 2:24 PM
- then Shukla Chaturdashi
- Nakṣatra
- Krittika
- until 10:45 AM
- then Rohini
- Yoga
- Sadhya
- until 9:32 PM
- then Shubha
- Karaṇa
- Taitila
- until 2:24 PM
- then Gara until 12:38 AM
- then Vanija
- Vāra
- Mangalavara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 3:33 PM
- sets 5:07 AM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 7:09 AM
- Roga Illness 7:09 AM – 8:27 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 8:27 AM – 9:44 AM
- Cala Neutral 9:44 AM – 11:02 AM
- Lābha Gain 11:02 AM – 12:19 PM
- Amṛta Best 12:19 PM – 1:37 PM
- Kāla Loss 1:37 PM – 2:54 PM
- Śubha Good 2:54 PM – 4:11 PM
- Roga Illness 4:11 PM – 5:29 PM
- Night from 5:29 PM
- Kāla Loss 5:29 PM – 7:11 PM
- Lābha Gain 7:11 PM – 8:54 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 8:54 PM – 10:37 PM
- Śubha Good 10:37 PM – 12:19 AM
- Amṛta Best 12:19 AM – 2:02 AM
- Cala Neutral 2:02 AM – 3:45 AM
- Roga Illness 3:45 AM – 5:27 AM
- Kāla Loss 5:27 AM – 7:10 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 5:20 AM – 6:15 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 11:58 AM – 12:40 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Yamagaṇḍa 9:44 AM – 11:02 AM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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Gulika kāla 12:19 PM – 1:37 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 2:54 PM – 4:11 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.