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January 2028
Budhavara
Sunrise
7:14 AM
Sunset
5:49 PM
Sunrise
7:14 AM 20 Jan
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Krishna Ashtami
- until 12:29 PM
- then Krishna Navami
- Nakṣatra
- Swati
- until 5:44 AM
- then Vishakha
- Yoga
- Dhriti
- until 3:24 PM
- then Shula
- Karaṇa
- Kaulava
- until 12:29 PM
- then Taitila until 12:12 AM
- then Gara
- Vāra
- Budhavara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 12:42 AM
- sets 11:47 AM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 7:14 AM
- Lābha Gain 7:14 AM – 8:33 AM
- Amṛta Best 8:33 AM – 9:52 AM
- Kāla Loss 9:52 AM – 11:12 AM
- Śubha Good 11:12 AM – 12:31 PM
- Roga Illness 12:31 PM – 1:51 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 1:51 PM – 3:10 PM
- Cala Neutral 3:10 PM – 4:29 PM
- Lābha Gain 4:29 PM – 5:49 PM
- Night from 5:49 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 5:49 PM – 7:29 PM
- Śubha Good 7:29 PM – 9:10 PM
- Amṛta Best 9:10 PM – 10:50 PM
- Cala Neutral 10:50 PM – 12:31 AM
- Roga Illness 12:31 AM – 2:12 AM
- Kāla Loss 2:12 AM – 3:52 AM
- Lābha Gain 3:52 AM – 5:33 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 5:33 AM – 7:14 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 5:26 AM – 6:20 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 12:10 PM – 12:52 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods — but many traditions do not observe it on a Wednesday.
Inauspicious
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Yamagaṇḍa 8:33 AM – 9:52 AM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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Gulika kāla 11:12 AM – 12:31 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 12:31 PM – 1:51 PM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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.