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January 2028
Somavara
Sunrise
7:12 AM
Sunset
5:53 PM
Sunrise
7:12 AM 25 Jan
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Krishna Trayodashi
- until 4:09 PM
- then Krishna Chaturdashi
- Nakṣatra
- Mula
- until 11:28 AM
- then Purva Ashadha
- Yoga
- Vyaghata
- until 12:22 PM
- then Harshana
- Karaṇa
- Vanija
- until 4:09 PM
- then Vishti until 5:11 AM
- then Shakuni
- Vāra
- Somavara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 5:31 AM
- sets 3:51 PM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 7:12 AM
- Amṛta Best 7:12 AM – 8:32 AM
- Kāla Loss 8:32 AM – 9:52 AM
- Śubha Good 9:52 AM – 11:13 AM
- Roga Illness 11:13 AM – 12:33 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 12:33 PM – 1:53 PM
- Cala Neutral 1:53 PM – 3:13 PM
- Lābha Gain 3:13 PM – 4:33 PM
- Amṛta Best 4:33 PM – 5:53 PM
- Night from 5:53 PM
- Cala Neutral 5:53 PM – 7:33 PM
- Roga Illness 7:33 PM – 9:13 PM
- Kāla Loss 9:13 PM – 10:52 PM
- Lābha Gain 10:52 PM – 12:32 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 12:32 AM – 2:12 AM
- Śubha Good 2:12 AM – 3:52 AM
- Amṛta Best 3:52 AM – 5:32 AM
- Cala Neutral 5:32 AM – 7:12 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 5:26 AM – 6:19 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 12:11 PM – 12:54 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Rāhu kāla 8:32 AM – 9:52 AM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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Yamagaṇḍa 11:13 AM – 12:33 PM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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Gulika kāla 1:53 PM – 3:13 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.