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December 2028
Budhavara
Sunrise
7:09 AM
Sunset
5:28 PM
Sunrise
7:09 AM 21 Dec
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Shukla Chaturthi
- until 7:45 AM
- then Shukla Panchami
- Nakṣatra
- Shravana
- until 9:27 AM
- then Dhanishta
- Yoga
- Harshana
- until 1:20 AM
- then Vajra
- Karaṇa
- Vishti
- until 7:45 AM
- then Bava until 8:30 PM
- then Balava
- Vāra
- Budhavara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 10:10 AM
- sets 9:38 PM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 7:09 AM
- Lābha Gain 7:09 AM – 8:26 AM
- Amṛta Best 8:26 AM – 9:44 AM
- Kāla Loss 9:44 AM – 11:01 AM
- Śubha Good 11:01 AM – 12:18 PM
- Roga Illness 12:18 PM – 1:36 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 1:36 PM – 2:53 PM
- Cala Neutral 2:53 PM – 4:11 PM
- Lābha Gain 4:11 PM – 5:28 PM
- Night from 5:28 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 5:28 PM – 7:11 PM
- Śubha Good 7:11 PM – 8:53 PM
- Amṛta Best 8:53 PM – 10:36 PM
- Cala Neutral 10:36 PM – 12:19 AM
- Roga Illness 12:19 AM – 2:01 AM
- Kāla Loss 2:01 AM – 3:44 AM
- Lābha Gain 3:44 AM – 5:27 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 5:27 AM – 7:09 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 5:19 AM – 6:14 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 11:58 AM – 12:39 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods — but many traditions do not observe it on a Wednesday.
Inauspicious
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Yamagaṇḍa 8:26 AM – 9:44 AM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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Gulika kāla 11:01 AM – 12:18 PM
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 12:18 PM – 1:36 PM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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.