24
April 2028
Somavara
- Vaishakh Maas day 16 of 30
- Amavasya
- Somvati Amavasya
Sunrise
5:46 AM
Sunset
6:52 PM
Sunrise
5:45 AM 25 Apr
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Krishna Amavasya
- until 1:16 AM
- then Shukla Pratipada
- Nakṣatra
- Ashwini
- until 5:54 AM
- Yoga
- Vishkumbha
- until 10:18 AM
- then Priti
- Karaṇa
- Chatushpada
- until 12:52 PM
- then Naga until 1:16 AM
- then Kimstughna
- Vāra
- Somavara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 5:03 AM
- sets 6:36 PM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 5:46 AM
- Amṛta Best 5:46 AM – 7:24 AM
- Kāla Loss 7:24 AM – 9:02 AM
- Śubha Good 9:02 AM – 10:40 AM
- Roga Illness 10:40 AM – 12:19 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 12:19 PM – 1:57 PM
- Cala Neutral 1:57 PM – 3:35 PM
- Lābha Gain 3:35 PM – 5:14 PM
- Amṛta Best 5:14 PM – 6:52 PM
- Night from 6:52 PM
- Cala Neutral 6:52 PM – 8:13 PM
- Roga Illness 8:13 PM – 9:35 PM
- Kāla Loss 9:35 PM – 10:57 PM
- Lābha Gain 10:57 PM – 12:18 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 12:18 AM – 1:40 AM
- Śubha Good 1:40 AM – 3:02 AM
- Amṛta Best 3:02 AM – 4:23 AM
- Cala Neutral 4:23 AM – 5:45 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 4:18 AM – 5:02 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 11:53 AM – 12:45 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Rāhu kāla 7:24 AM – 9:02 AM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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Yamagaṇḍa 10:40 AM – 12:19 PM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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Gulika kāla 1:57 PM – 3:35 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.