Choghadiya Today (Day & Night Choghadiya Timings)
Day and night choghadiya for your town, with the current one and a countdown.
Choghadiya
As the tradition labels them: favourable neutral unfavourable
Seven days
Day choghadiyas (from sunrise)
Night choghadiyas (from sunset)
Each cell shows the choghadiya and its start; it ends when the next one starts. Times after midnight belong to the night of the date in the row.
About the Choghadiya Today (Day & Night Choghadiya Timings)
See the eight day choghadiyas (sunrise to sunset) and eight night choghadiyas (sunset to the next sunrise) for your own town and any date — Amrit, Shubh, Labh, Char, Rog, Kaal and Udveg, each with its start and end. When the date is today, the choghadiya running now is highlighted with a countdown to the next one, and a week table shows seven days at once for printing or saving as CSV.
The times come from the town’s own sunrise and sunset, worked out on your device with the Rashtriya Panchang’s sunrise rule (the Sun’s upper limb on the horizon), so they match printed panchangs that use the real sunrise to about a minute, and the page keeps working offline once loaded. Daylight saving time abroad is handled for each place. The labels — favourable, neutral, unfavourable — are shown as the tradition gives them, with no claim about their effect.
How to use it
- Search for your town or enter coordinates. The town is remembered for the other panchang tools.
- Read the highlighted choghadiya and the countdown, or pick another date — the lists show the day’s and the night’s eight parts.
- Scroll to the week to compare days. In the day’s lists, times after midnight say “next day”, because a night choghadiya runs until the next sunrise; in the week table they belong to the night of the date in the row.
- Use Copy, Share, Copy week, CSV or Print week.
Examples
Sunrise 05:16, sunset 18:37 — each day part 1 h 40 min
Day: Char 05:16 · Labh 06:56 · Amrit 08:37 · Kaal 10:17 · Shubh 11:57 · Rog 13:37 · Udveg 15:17 · Char 16:57 · Night: Rog 18:37 · Kaal 19:57 · Labh 21:17 · Udveg 22:37 · Shubh 23:57 · Amrit 01:16 · Char 02:36 · Rog 03:56
How choghadiyas are worked out
The time from sunrise to sunset is divided into eight equal parts, and so is the time from sunset to the next sunrise — so a day choghadiya lasts 1 h 30 min only when day and night are 12 hours each. By day the choghadiyas follow the order Udveg, Char, Labh, Amrit, Kaal, Shubh, Rog, starting with the one of the weekday’s lord — Sunday (Sun) Udveg, Monday (Moon) Amrit, Tuesday (Mars) Rog, Wednesday (Mercury) Labh, Thursday (Jupiter) Shubh, Friday (Venus) Char, Saturday (Saturn) Kaal — so the eighth part repeats the first. By night they follow Shubh, Amrit, Char, Rog, Kaal, Labh, Udveg, starting with the choghadiya of the lord of the fifth weekday counted from the day: Sunday night starts with Shubh (Jupiter, Thursday’s lord), Monday night with Char.
Tradition counts Amrit, Shubh and Labh as favourable, Char as neutral (often named for travel), and Rog, Kaal and Udveg as unfavourable. Sunrise and sunset are the moments the Sun’s upper limb touches the horizon, with 31′ of refraction and a 16′ semi-diameter (Rashtriya Panchang: Explanation).
Why the times change every day
Sunrise and sunset move through the year and from town to town, and the choghadiyas move with them: in Ahmedabad the day parts are longer in June than in December, and Kolkata’s choghadiyas start well before Mumbai’s on the clock. A table printed for one city, or one that assumes a 6 am sunrise, can be off by many minutes for another place — choose your own town.
Sources
- India Meteorological Department, Positional Astronomy Centre: Rashtriya Panchang: Explanation, for the sunrise and sunset rule; the tests compare the sunrise and sunset times with the Rashtriya Panchang’s values for its central station.
- D. Cross, astronomy-engine (MIT licence): the positions of the Sun and the Moon and the searches for sunrise, sunset, moonrise and moonset.
- GeoNames (CC BY 4.0): town names, coordinates and time zones of the place search; the IANA time zone database in your browser for daylight saving time.
Limitations
- Sunrise and sunset are for a level horizon at sea level; hills and tall buildings change them by a few minutes.
- Near the poles, on dates when the Sun does not rise or set, there are no choghadiyas: the page says so instead of inventing times.
- Some regional traditions use other divisions of the day (Gowri panchangam, horas); this page gives the choghadiya only.
Privacy
Everything is calculated in your browser, and the page never asks for your device’s position. A town or coordinates you choose are remembered in this browser for the panchang tools; Reset forgets them. A link you share holds the date and the town or coordinates you chose.
Frequently asked questions
Which choghadiya is running now?
Keep the date on today: the page highlights the current choghadiya and counts down to the next one. Between midnight and sunrise the current one is the last part of the previous date’s night, which the page takes into account.
How long is one choghadiya?
One eighth of the daytime by day and one eighth of the night by night. With sunrise at 05:16 and sunset at 18:37 a day choghadiya lasts 1 h 40 min and a night choghadiya 1 h 20 min.
Why do two choghadiya tables for the same city differ?
Usually because of the sunrise definition (upper limb or centre of the Sun, refraction), because one of them is for another city, or because it assumes a fixed 6 am sunrise. This page uses the Rashtriya Panchang’s sunrise rule for the town you choose.
Does it work outside India?
Yes. Times are in the town’s own time zone, daylight saving included, and the parts come from that town’s sunrise and sunset.