17
May 2027
Somavara
- Vaishakh Maas day 28 of 31
Sunrise
5:29 AM
Sunset
7:05 PM
Sunrise
5:28 AM 18 May
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Shukla Dwadashi
- until 4:28 PM
- then Shukla Trayodashi
- Nakṣatra
- Hasta
- until 11:29 AM
- then Chitra
- Yoga
- Siddhi
- until 1:10 AM
- then Vyatipata
- Karaṇa
- Balava
- until 4:28 PM
- then Kaulava until 4:13 AM
- then Taitila
- Vāra
- Somavara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 4:16 PM
- sets 3:04 AM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 5:29 AM
- Amṛta Best 5:29 AM – 7:11 AM
- Kāla Loss 7:11 AM – 8:53 AM
- Śubha Good 8:53 AM – 10:35 AM
- Roga Illness 10:35 AM – 12:17 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 12:17 PM – 1:59 PM
- Cala Neutral 1:59 PM – 3:41 PM
- Lābha Gain 3:41 PM – 5:23 PM
- Amṛta Best 5:23 PM – 7:05 PM
- Night from 7:05 PM
- Cala Neutral 7:05 PM – 8:23 PM
- Roga Illness 8:23 PM – 9:41 PM
- Kāla Loss 9:41 PM – 10:59 PM
- Lābha Gain 10:59 PM – 12:17 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 12:17 AM – 1:35 AM
- Śubha Good 1:35 AM – 2:53 AM
- Amṛta Best 2:53 AM – 4:10 AM
- Cala Neutral 4:10 AM – 5:28 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 4:06 AM – 4:47 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 11:50 AM – 12:44 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Rāhu kāla 7:11 AM – 8:53 AM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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Yamagaṇḍa 10:35 AM – 12:17 PM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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Gulika kāla 1:59 PM – 3:41 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.