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December 2028
Shanivara
Sunrise
7:10 AM
Sunset
5:30 PM
Sunrise
7:11 AM 24 Dec
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Shukla Saptami
- until 1:58 PM
- then Shukla Ashtami
- Nakṣatra
- Purva Bhadrapada
- until 5:07 PM
- then Uttara Bhadrapada
- Yoga
- Vyatipata
- until 3:13 AM
- then Variyana
- Karaṇa
- Vanija
- until 1:58 PM
- then Vishti until 3:14 AM
- then Bava
- Vāra
- Shanivara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 11:40 AM
- sets —
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 7:10 AM
- Kāla Loss 7:10 AM – 8:28 AM
- Śubha Good 8:28 AM – 9:45 AM
- Roga Illness 9:45 AM – 11:02 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 11:02 AM – 12:20 PM
- Cala Neutral 12:20 PM – 1:37 PM
- Lābha Gain 1:37 PM – 2:55 PM
- Amṛta Best 2:55 PM – 4:12 PM
- Kāla Loss 4:12 PM – 5:30 PM
- Night from 5:30 PM
- Lābha Gain 5:30 PM – 7:12 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 7:12 PM – 8:55 PM
- Śubha Good 8:55 PM – 10:37 PM
- Amṛta Best 10:37 PM – 12:20 AM
- Cala Neutral 12:20 AM – 2:03 AM
- Roga Illness 2:03 AM – 3:45 AM
- Kāla Loss 3:45 AM – 5:28 AM
- Lābha Gain 5:28 AM – 7:11 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 5:21 AM – 6:15 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 11:59 AM – 12:41 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Gulika kāla 7:10 AM – 8:28 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 9:45 AM – 11:02 AM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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Yamagaṇḍa 1:37 PM – 2:55 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.