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January 2028
Somavara
Sunrise
7:14 AM
Sunset
5:36 PM
Sunrise
7:14 AM 4 Jan
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Shukla Shashthi
- until 4:12 PM
- then Shukla Saptami
- Nakṣatra
- Purva Bhadrapada
- until 10:15 PM
- then Uttara Bhadrapada
- Yoga
- Vyatipata
- until 12:33 PM
- then Variyana
- Karaṇa
- Taitila
- until 4:12 PM
- then Gara until 5:20 AM
- then Vanija
- Vāra
- Somavara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 10:55 AM
- sets 11:22 PM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 7:14 AM
- Amṛta Best 7:14 AM – 8:31 AM
- Kāla Loss 8:31 AM – 9:49 AM
- Śubha Good 9:49 AM – 11:07 AM
- Roga Illness 11:07 AM – 12:25 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 12:25 PM – 1:43 PM
- Cala Neutral 1:43 PM – 3:00 PM
- Lābha Gain 3:00 PM – 4:18 PM
- Amṛta Best 4:18 PM – 5:36 PM
- Night from 5:36 PM
- Cala Neutral 5:36 PM – 7:18 PM
- Roga Illness 7:18 PM – 9:00 PM
- Kāla Loss 9:00 PM – 10:43 PM
- Lābha Gain 10:43 PM – 12:25 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 12:25 AM – 2:07 AM
- Śubha Good 2:07 AM – 3:49 AM
- Amṛta Best 3:49 AM – 5:32 AM
- Cala Neutral 5:32 AM – 7:14 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 5:25 AM – 6:19 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 12:04 PM – 12:46 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Rāhu kāla 8:31 AM – 9:49 AM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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Yamagaṇḍa 11:07 AM – 12:25 PM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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Gulika kāla 1:43 PM – 3:00 PM
Held to make what is begun in it repeat, so it is avoided for anything one would not want again.
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.