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.
Monday, 05 October 2026
Running now
Char
6:02 PM – 7:34 PM
Good forThe moving one. Travel, and anything that has to go from one place to another.
Every choghadiya of this day
- Amrit6:16 AM – 7:44 AMDaylight
The best of the eight. Anything may be begun — a journey, a purchase, a first meeting, medicine.
- Kaal7:44 AM – 9:12 AMDaylight
Avoid. Wealth begun here is said to drain rather than gather.
- Shubh9:12 AM – 10:41 AMDaylight
Auspicious for ceremony and for anything to do with marriage — an engagement, a wedding errand, meeting the other family.
- Rog10:41 AM – 12:09 PMDaylight
Avoid. Nothing begun here is classically expected to hold — least of all anything to do with health.
- Udveg12:09 PM – 1:37 PMDaylight
Restless. Government and official work goes here and little else does.
- Char1:37 PM – 3:06 PMDaylight
The moving one. Travel, and anything that has to go from one place to another.
- Labh3:06 PM – 4:34 PMDaylight
For gain: trade, a new venture, asking for what you are owed, beginning to learn something.
- Amrit4:34 PM – 6:02 PMDaylight
The best of the eight. Anything may be begun — a journey, a purchase, a first meeting, medicine.
- Char6:02 PM – 7:34 PMNight
The moving one. Travel, and anything that has to go from one place to another.
- Rog7:34 PM – 9:06 PMNight
Avoid. Nothing begun here is classically expected to hold — least of all anything to do with health.
- Kaal9:06 PM – 10:37 PMNight
Avoid. Wealth begun here is said to drain rather than gather.
- Labh10:37 PM – 12:09 AMNight
For gain: trade, a new venture, asking for what you are owed, beginning to learn something.
- Udveg12:09 AM – 1:41 AMNight
Restless. Government and official work goes here and little else does.
- Shubh1:41 AM – 3:13 AMNight
Auspicious for ceremony and for anything to do with marriage — an engagement, a wedding errand, meeting the other family.
- Amrit3:13 AM – 4:44 AMNight
The best of the eight. Anything may be begun — a journey, a purchase, a first meeting, medicine.
- Char4:44 AM – 6:16 AMNight
The moving one. Travel, and anything that has to go from one place to another.
How this is worked out
- Sunrise
- 6:16 AM
- Sunset
- 6:02 PM
- Next sunrise
- 6:16 AM
- Lord of the day
- Moon
The daylight, sunrise to sunset, cut into eight equal parts — 88 minutes each on this day — and the night, sunset to the next sunrise, into eight of 92. 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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