25
December 2028
Somavara
Sunrise
7:11 AM
Sunset
5:31 PM
Sunrise
7:11 AM 26 Dec
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Shukla Navami
- until 6:54 PM
- then Shukla Dashami
- Nakṣatra
- Revati
- until 10:51 PM
- then Ashwini
- Yoga
- Parigha
- until 4:38 AM
- then Shiva
- Karaṇa
- Kaulava
- until 6:54 PM
- then Taitila
- Vāra
- Somavara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 12:39 PM
- sets 1:08 AM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 7:11 AM
- Amṛta Best 7:11 AM – 8:29 AM
- Kāla Loss 8:29 AM – 9:46 AM
- Śubha Good 9:46 AM – 11:03 AM
- Roga Illness 11:03 AM – 12:21 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 12:21 PM – 1:38 PM
- Cala Neutral 1:38 PM – 2:56 PM
- Lābha Gain 2:56 PM – 4:13 PM
- Amṛta Best 4:13 PM – 5:31 PM
- Night from 5:31 PM
- Cala Neutral 5:31 PM – 7:13 PM
- Roga Illness 7:13 PM – 8:56 PM
- Kāla Loss 8:56 PM – 10:38 PM
- Lābha Gain 10:38 PM – 12:21 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 12:21 AM – 2:04 AM
- Śubha Good 2:04 AM – 3:46 AM
- Amṛta Best 3:46 AM – 5:29 AM
- Cala Neutral 5:29 AM – 7:11 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 5:22 AM – 6:16 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 12:00 PM – 12:42 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Rāhu kāla 8:29 AM – 9:46 AM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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Yamagaṇḍa 11:03 AM – 12:21 PM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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Gulika kāla 1:38 PM – 2:56 PM
Held to make what is begun in it repeat, so it is avoided for anything one would not want again.
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.