16
August 2028
Budhavara
- Bhadrapada Maas day 12 of 30
- Ekadashi · pāraṇa 17 Aug, 1:43 PM–4:21 PM · Smarta 16 Aug, Vaishnava 17 Aug
- Sankranti
Sunrise
5:51 AM
Sunset
6:59 PM
Sunrise
5:51 AM 17 Aug
Drag the bar, or press ← and → to move a minute at a time — hold shift for fifteen.
The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Krishna Ekadashi
- until 3:49 AM
- then Krishna Dwadashi
- Nakṣatra
- Mrigashira
- until 6:02 PM
- then Ardra
- Yoga
- Harshana
- until 6:12 PM
- then Vajra
- Karaṇa
- Bava
- until 4:36 PM
- then Balava until 3:49 AM
- then Kaulava
- Vāra
- Budhavara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 1:02 AM
- sets 3:37 PM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 5:51 AM
- Lābha Gain 5:51 AM – 7:29 AM
- Amṛta Best 7:29 AM – 9:08 AM
- Kāla Loss 9:08 AM – 10:46 AM
- Śubha Good 10:46 AM – 12:25 PM
- Roga Illness 12:25 PM – 2:03 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 2:03 PM – 3:42 PM
- Cala Neutral 3:42 PM – 5:21 PM
- Lābha Gain 5:21 PM – 6:59 PM
- Night from 6:59 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 6:59 PM – 8:21 PM
- Śubha Good 8:21 PM – 9:42 PM
- Amṛta Best 9:42 PM – 11:04 PM
- Cala Neutral 11:04 PM – 12:25 AM
- Roga Illness 12:25 AM – 1:47 AM
- Kāla Loss 1:47 AM – 3:08 AM
- Lābha Gain 3:08 AM – 4:30 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 4:30 AM – 5:51 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
-
Brāhma muhūrta 4:24 AM – 5:07 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
-
Abhijit muhūrta 11:59 AM – 12:51 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods — but many traditions do not observe it on a Wednesday.
Inauspicious
-
Yamagaṇḍa 7:29 AM – 9:08 AM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
-
Gulika kāla 10:46 AM – 12:25 PM
Held to make what is begun in it repeat, so it is avoided for anything one would not want again.
-
Rāhu kāla 12:25 PM – 2:03 PM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
Cāturmāsya — in progress, 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.