15
May 2028
Somavara
Sunrise
5:30 AM
Sunset
7:05 PM
Sunrise
5:29 AM 16 May
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Krishna Saptami
- until 3:00 AM
- then Krishna Ashtami
- Nakṣatra
- Shravana
- until 11:02 PM
- then Dhanishta
- Yoga
- Shukla
- until 2:42 PM
- then Brahma
- Karaṇa
- Vishti
- until 1:52 PM
- then Bava until 3:00 AM
- then Balava
- Vāra
- Somavara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 12:02 AM
- sets 11:05 AM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 5:30 AM
- Amṛta Best 5:30 AM – 7:11 AM
- Kāla Loss 7:11 AM – 8:53 AM
- Śubha Good 8:53 AM – 10:35 AM
- Roga Illness 10:35 AM – 12:17 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 12:17 PM – 1:59 PM
- Cala Neutral 1:59 PM – 3:41 PM
- Lābha Gain 3:41 PM – 5:23 PM
- Amṛta Best 5:23 PM – 7:05 PM
- Night from 7:05 PM
- Cala Neutral 7:05 PM – 8:23 PM
- Roga Illness 8:23 PM – 9:41 PM
- Kāla Loss 9:41 PM – 10:59 PM
- Lābha Gain 10:59 PM – 12:17 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 12:17 AM – 1:35 AM
- Śubha Good 1:35 AM – 2:53 AM
- Amṛta Best 2:53 AM – 4:11 AM
- Cala Neutral 4:11 AM – 5:29 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 4:06 AM – 4:48 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 11:50 AM – 12:44 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Rāhu kāla 7:11 AM – 8:53 AM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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Yamagaṇḍa 10:35 AM – 12:17 PM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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Gulika kāla 1:59 PM – 3:41 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.