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December 2028
Shukravara
Sunrise
7:01 AM
Sunset
5:24 PM
Sunrise
7:02 AM 9 Dec
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Krishna Saptami
- until 12:09 AM
- then Krishna Ashtami
- Nakṣatra
- Magha
- until 5:59 PM
- then Purva Phalguni
- Yoga
- Vaidhriti
- until 8:23 AM
- then Vishkumbha until 5:37 AM
- then Priti
- Karaṇa
- Vishti
- until 1:06 PM
- then Bava until 12:09 AM
- then Balava
- Vāra
- Shukravara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 11:45 PM
- sets 11:41 AM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 7:01 AM
- Cala Neutral 7:01 AM – 8:19 AM
- Lābha Gain 8:19 AM – 9:37 AM
- Amṛta Best 9:37 AM – 10:55 AM
- Kāla Loss 10:55 AM – 12:13 PM
- Śubha Good 12:13 PM – 1:31 PM
- Roga Illness 1:31 PM – 2:48 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 2:48 PM – 4:06 PM
- Cala Neutral 4:06 PM – 5:24 PM
- Night from 5:24 PM
- Roga Illness 5:24 PM – 7:06 PM
- Kāla Loss 7:06 PM – 8:49 PM
- Lābha Gain 8:49 PM – 10:31 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 10:31 PM – 12:13 AM
- Śubha Good 12:13 AM – 1:55 AM
- Amṛta Best 1:55 AM – 3:38 AM
- Cala Neutral 3:38 AM – 5:20 AM
- Roga Illness 5:20 AM – 7:02 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 5:12 AM – 6:07 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 11:52 AM – 12:33 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Gulika kāla 8:19 AM – 9:37 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 – 12:13 PM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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Yamagaṇḍa 2:48 PM – 4:06 PM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
Cāturmāsya — next runs 21 Jul 2029 to 15 Nov 2029, 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.