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April 2028
Somavara
- Chaitra Navratri day 8 of 9
- Navratri day 8 of 9
- Ram Navami
Sunrise
6:08 AM
Sunset
6:40 PM
Sunrise
6:07 AM 4 Apr
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Shukla Ashtami
- until 12:00 PM
- then Shukla Navami
- Nakṣatra
- Punarvasu
- until 1:00 AM
- then Pushya
- Yoga
- Atiganda
- until 7:10 PM
- then Sukarma
- Karaṇa
- Bava
- until 12:00 PM
- then Balava until 11:07 PM
- then Kaulava
- Vāra
- Somavara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 12:07 PM
- sets 1:31 AM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 6:08 AM
- Amṛta Best 6:08 AM – 7:42 AM
- Kāla Loss 7:42 AM – 9:16 AM
- Śubha Good 9:16 AM – 10:50 AM
- Roga Illness 10:50 AM – 12:24 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 12:24 PM – 1:58 PM
- Cala Neutral 1:58 PM – 3:32 PM
- Lābha Gain 3:32 PM – 5:06 PM
- Amṛta Best 5:06 PM – 6:40 PM
- Night from 6:40 PM
- Cala Neutral 6:40 PM – 8:06 PM
- Roga Illness 8:06 PM – 9:32 PM
- Kāla Loss 9:32 PM – 10:57 PM
- Lābha Gain 10:57 PM – 12:23 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 12:23 AM – 1:49 AM
- Śubha Good 1:49 AM – 3:15 AM
- Amṛta Best 3:15 AM – 4:41 AM
- Cala Neutral 4:41 AM – 6:07 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 4:36 AM – 5:22 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 11:59 AM – 12:49 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Rāhu kāla 7:42 AM – 9:16 AM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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Yamagaṇḍa 10:50 AM – 12:24 PM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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Gulika kāla 1:58 PM – 3:32 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.