24
March 2028
Shukravara
Sunrise
6:19 AM
Sunset
6:34 PM
Sunrise
6:18 AM 25 Mar
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Krishna Chaturdashi
- until 7:57 AM
- Nakṣatra
- Shatabhisha
- until 2:24 PM
- then Purva Bhadrapada
- Yoga
- Shubha
- until 2:50 AM
- then Shukla
- Karaṇa
- Vishti
- until 6:47 PM
- then Shakuni
- Vāra
- Shukravara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 5:04 AM
- sets 5:06 PM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 6:19 AM
- Cala Neutral 6:19 AM – 7:51 AM
- Lābha Gain 7:51 AM – 9:23 AM
- Amṛta Best 9:23 AM – 10:55 AM
- Kāla Loss 10:55 AM – 12:27 PM
- Śubha Good 12:27 PM – 1:59 PM
- Roga Illness 1:59 PM – 3:31 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 3:31 PM – 5:02 PM
- Cala Neutral 5:02 PM – 6:34 PM
- Night from 6:34 PM
- Roga Illness 6:34 PM – 8:02 PM
- Kāla Loss 8:02 PM – 9:30 PM
- Lābha Gain 9:30 PM – 10:58 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 10:58 PM – 12:26 AM
- Śubha Good 12:26 AM – 1:54 AM
- Amṛta Best 1:54 AM – 3:22 AM
- Cala Neutral 3:22 AM – 4:50 AM
- Roga Illness 4:50 AM – 6:18 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 4:45 AM – 5:32 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 12:02 PM – 12:51 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Gulika kāla 7:51 AM – 9:23 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 10:55 AM – 12:27 PM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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Yamagaṇḍa 3:31 PM – 5:02 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.