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January 2028
Shanivara
Sunrise
7:13 AM
Sunset
5:35 PM
Sunrise
7:13 AM 2 Jan
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Shukla Chaturthi
- until 10:55 AM
- then Shukla Panchami
- Nakṣatra
- Dhanishta
- until 4:15 PM
- then Shatabhisha
- Yoga
- Vajra
- until 10:43 AM
- then Siddhi
- Karaṇa
- Vishti
- until 10:55 AM
- then Bava until 12:18 AM
- then Balava
- Vāra
- Shanivara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 9:59 AM
- sets 9:38 PM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 7:13 AM
- Kāla Loss 7:13 AM – 8:31 AM
- Śubha Good 8:31 AM – 9:49 AM
- Roga Illness 9:49 AM – 11:06 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 11:06 AM – 12:24 PM
- Cala Neutral 12:24 PM – 1:42 PM
- Lābha Gain 1:42 PM – 2:59 PM
- Amṛta Best 2:59 PM – 4:17 PM
- Kāla Loss 4:17 PM – 5:35 PM
- Night from 5:35 PM
- Lābha Gain 5:35 PM – 7:17 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 7:17 PM – 8:59 PM
- Śubha Good 8:59 PM – 10:42 PM
- Amṛta Best 10:42 PM – 12:24 AM
- Cala Neutral 12:24 AM – 2:06 AM
- Roga Illness 2:06 AM – 3:49 AM
- Kāla Loss 3:49 AM – 5:31 AM
- Lābha Gain 5:31 AM – 7:13 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 5:24 AM – 6:19 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 12:03 PM – 12:45 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Gulika kāla 7:13 AM – 8:31 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 9:49 AM – 11:06 AM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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Yamagaṇḍa 1:42 PM – 2:59 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.