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Choghadiya, today and for any date
Choghadiya divides the day from sunrise to sunset into eight equal parts, and the night into eight more, and names each one by the planet that rules it. The page opens on today in Delhi. Change the date or the place below and it is recomputed from that city's own sunrise.
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- Day starts withLabh
- Night starts withUdveg
- Good day parts4
| Choghadiya | Nature | Time | Used for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Labh | auspicious | 6:30 AM to 7:53 AM | good for starting business and for study |
| Amrit | auspicious | 7:53 AM to 9:17 AM | the best of the eight for almost anything |
| Kaal | inauspicious | 9:17 AM to 10:41 AM | avoided for new work; traditionally for collecting what is owed |
| Shubh | auspicious | 10:41 AM to 12:04 PM | good for ceremonies, marriage and study |
| Rog | inauspicious | 12:04 PM to 1:28 PM | avoided for new work; traditionally for disputes and debt |
| Udveg | inauspicious | 1:28 PM to 2:52 PM | avoided for new work; traditionally government matters only |
| Chal | neutral | 2:52 PM to 4:15 PM | good for travel, neutral for anything meant to stay put |
| Labh | auspicious | 4:15 PM to 5:39 PM | good for starting business and for study |
| Choghadiya | Nature | Time | Used for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Udveg | inauspicious | 5:39 PM to 7:15 PM | avoided for new work; traditionally government matters only |
| Shubh | auspicious | 7:15 PM to 8:52 PM | good for ceremonies, marriage and study |
| Amrit | auspicious | 8:52 PM to 10:28 PM | the best of the eight for almost anything |
| Chal | neutral | 10:28 PM to 12:05 AM | good for travel, neutral for anything meant to stay put |
| Rog | inauspicious | 12:05 AM to 1:41 AM | avoided for new work; traditionally for disputes and debt |
| Kaal | inauspicious | 1:41 AM to 3:17 AM | avoided for new work; traditionally for collecting what is owed |
| Labh | auspicious | 3:17 AM to 4:54 AM | good for starting business and for study |
| Udveg | inauspicious | 4:54 AM to 6:30 AM | avoided for new work; traditionally government matters only |
The same for everyone in this city today. It divides clock time by weekday and knows nothing about your chart.
An Amrit choghadiya is Amrit for everyone. Your good months are not.
The table above divides today's clock time by weekday, and it is the same for every person in the city. Whether this is a good stretch of your life to start something in is a different question, answered by your running dasha and the transits over your own houses.
- The months ahead that favour starting things, by area of life
- The stretches to sit through rather than begin in, dated
- Your running period and sub-period, to the day each one ends
- Which transits touch your chart, separated from the ones that do not
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What it actually is
A division of clock time by weekday. It is identical for every person in a city on a given day, and it knows nothing about anybody's chart, which is why two people can start the same thing in the same Amrit choghadiya and have completely different results.
How the eight parts are named
The first part of the day belongs to the lord of the weekday and the rest follow the order of the planetary hours. The night starts from the lord of the fifth weekday counting from today. We generate the sequence from that rule rather than copying a table, and check it against the published one every time the application starts.
Why your city changes the times
Every part is a fraction of the time between sunrise and sunset, so a city whose sun rises forty minutes later has every choghadiya forty minutes later too, and a longer summer day has longer parts.
How this is calculated
Positions come from Skyfield and the JPL DE440s ephemeris, with our own Lahiri ayanamsa referred to the mean equinox of date. Every planet agrees with Swiss Ephemeris to under one arcsecond, and the lunar node to under a tenth of one. We publish that because nobody else in this market publishes theirs.
- Skyfield. The astronomy library that computes every position on this site.
- JPL planetary ephemerides. NASA JPL's ephemeris export page. The DE440s kernel we load is the source of every raw planetary position.
- Capitaine, Wallace and Chapront (2003), IAU 2006 precession. The precession expressions our Lahiri ayanamsa is carried forward with from its J2000 anchor.
- Positional Astronomy Centre, Kolkata. The India Meteorological Department office that publishes the Rashtriya Panchang, which defines the Lahiri ayanamsa.
- Swiss Ephemeris. The reference implementation we test against: under one arcsecond on every planet. It is used only in our test suite, never on this site.
Questions about choghadiya, today and for any date
Which choghadiya is best?
Amrit, Shubh and Labh are the three traditionally used for beginning things. Chal is fine for travel. Udveg, Kaal and Rog are avoided for new work.
Is choghadiya the same as a muhurat?
No. A muhurat for an important event is chosen from the panchang and the charts of the people involved. Choghadiya is a quick daily guide, the same for everyone.
Does the night choghadiya belong to today or tomorrow?
To today. The Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, so the night parts run from this evening's sunset to tomorrow's sunrise.
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