Right now
Choghadiya — the eight parts of the day
The daylight is cut into eight and the night into eight, and each part is either worth starting something in or worth waiting out. Computed from your own sunrise and sunset.
Sunday, 30 August 2026
Running now
Amrit
8:09 PM – 9:33 PM
Good forThe best of the eight. Anything may be begun — a journey, a purchase, a first meeting, medicine.
Every choghadiya of this day
- Udveg5:58 AM – 7:34 AMDaylight
Restless. Government and official work goes here and little else does.
- Char7:34 AM – 9:09 AMDaylight
The moving one. Travel, and anything that has to go from one place to another.
- Labh9:09 AM – 10:45 AMDaylight
For gain: trade, a new venture, asking for what you are owed, beginning to learn something.
- Amrit10:45 AM – 12:21 PMDaylight
The best of the eight. Anything may be begun — a journey, a purchase, a first meeting, medicine.
- Kaal12:21 PM – 1:57 PMDaylight
Avoid. Wealth begun here is said to drain rather than gather.
- Shubh1:57 PM – 3:33 PMDaylight
Auspicious for ceremony and for anything to do with marriage — an engagement, a wedding errand, meeting the other family.
- Rog3:33 PM – 5:09 PMDaylight
Avoid. Nothing begun here is classically expected to hold — least of all anything to do with health.
- Udveg5:09 PM – 6:45 PMDaylight
Restless. Government and official work goes here and little else does.
- Shubh6:45 PM – 8:09 PMNight
Auspicious for ceremony and for anything to do with marriage — an engagement, a wedding errand, meeting the other family.
- Amrit8:09 PM – 9:33 PMNight
The best of the eight. Anything may be begun — a journey, a purchase, a first meeting, medicine.
- Char9:33 PM – 10:57 PMNight
The moving one. Travel, and anything that has to go from one place to another.
- Rog10:57 PM – 12:21 AMNight
Avoid. Nothing begun here is classically expected to hold — least of all anything to do with health.
- Kaal12:21 AM – 1:46 AMNight
Avoid. Wealth begun here is said to drain rather than gather.
- Labh1:46 AM – 3:10 AMNight
For gain: trade, a new venture, asking for what you are owed, beginning to learn something.
- Udveg3:10 AM – 4:34 AMNight
Restless. Government and official work goes here and little else does.
- Shubh4:34 AM – 5:58 AMNight
Auspicious for ceremony and for anything to do with marriage — an engagement, a wedding errand, meeting the other family.
How this is worked out
- Sunrise
- 5:58 AM
- Sunset
- 6:45 PM
- Next sunrise
- 5:58 AM
- Lord of the day
- Sun
The daylight, sunrise to sunset, cut into eight equal parts — 96 minutes each on this day — and the night, sunset to the next sunrise, into eight of 84. The two lengths differ because daylight and night do. Which name falls where is fixed by the weekday.
Computed for Delhi — allow location for your own sunrise · Asia/Kolkata
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