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December 2027
Shukravara
Sunrise
7:07 AM
Sunset
5:26 PM
Sunrise
7:07 AM 18 Dec
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Krishna Chaturthi
- until 10:34 AM
- then Krishna Panchami
- Nakṣatra
- Pushya
- until 7:07 AM
- then Ashlesha until 5:11 AM
- then Magha
- Yoga
- Vaidhriti
- until 2:47 AM
- then Vishkumbha
- Karaṇa
- Balava
- until 10:34 AM
- then Kaulava until 9:14 PM
- then Taitila
- Vāra
- Shukravara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 9:33 PM
- sets 10:14 AM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 7:07 AM
- Cala Neutral 7:07 AM – 8:24 AM
- Lābha Gain 8:24 AM – 9:42 AM
- Amṛta Best 9:42 AM – 10:59 AM
- Kāla Loss 10:59 AM – 12:17 PM
- Śubha Good 12:17 PM – 1:34 PM
- Roga Illness 1:34 PM – 2:51 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 2:51 PM – 4:09 PM
- Cala Neutral 4:09 PM – 5:26 PM
- Night from 5:26 PM
- Roga Illness 5:26 PM – 7:09 PM
- Kāla Loss 7:09 PM – 8:52 PM
- Lābha Gain 8:52 PM – 10:34 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 10:34 PM – 12:17 AM
- Śubha Good 12:17 AM – 1:59 AM
- Amṛta Best 1:59 AM – 3:42 AM
- Cala Neutral 3:42 AM – 5:25 AM
- Roga Illness 5:25 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; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Gulika kāla 8:24 AM – 9:42 AM
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 10:59 AM – 12:17 PM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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Yamagaṇḍa 2:51 PM – 4:09 PM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
Cāturmāsya — next runs 2 Jul 2028 to 28 Oct 2028, 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.