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Choghadiya is the everyday muhurat system of India — the day and the night each divided into 8 planetary periods of about 90 minutes. Printed tables are made for one city; sunrise in Mumbai, Jaipur or New Jersey is different, so the timings shift. This calculator computes real sunrise and sunset for your city, shows the day and night tables, highlights the period running right now, and marks Rahu Kaal so you can pick a clean, genuinely shubh window.
The nectar period. Ideal for every important beginning — puja, travel, deals, interviews, first meetings.
Jupiter's blessing. Marriage talks, education, religious work and new ventures all thrive here.
The profit period. Start business work, investments, sales — anything where you want growth and gain.
Good, especially for movement — travel, buying a vehicle, shifting home, sending money.
Restless energy. Avoid new beginnings; government and administrative work is the traditional exception.
Saturn's heavy period. Avoid auspicious starts; continue routine, already-running work only.
Mars friction — illness and conflict. Traditionally used only for confronting or competing, never for new starts.
The daylight between sunrise and sunset divides into eight equal parts, and the night likewise. Each part is a choghadiya, named after the graha governing it: Amrit, Shubh and Labh are the auspicious ones, Char is neutral and useful for travel, and Rog, Kaal and Udveg are the ones to avoid. Because the divisions are equal parts of a variable day, a choghadiya is not sixty minutes — it stretches in summer and shortens in winter.
The sequence starts from the graha ruling that day and moves through the planetary order. So the first choghadiya after sunrise on Monday is not the same as on Tuesday, and the same clock time carries different qualities on different days. This is the same logic behind the hora, the planetary hour, and behind Rahu Kaal — all three are weekday-dependent divisions of the same day.
Abhijit muhurat is roughly the twenty-four minutes around local noon, and it is classically held to be auspicious for almost anything even when the choghadiya running at that moment is not. It is the practical fallback when a task cannot wait for a good window — with the traditional exception that it is not used for south-facing travel.
Choosing when to begin something, not deciding whether it will succeed. The logic is that a beginning carries the quality of its moment, so a start made in a supportive window has one fewer thing working against it. It is a small advantage, honestly held. Nobody in the tradition claims that a good choghadiya rescues a bad plan, and a day with no perfect window is a day to use Abhijit and get on with it.
Choghadiya divides the day (sunrise to sunset) and the night (sunset to next sunrise) into 8 parts each of roughly 90 minutes. Each part is ruled by a planet and is either favourable (Amrit, Shubh, Labh, Char) or unfavourable (Udveg, Kaal, Rog) for starting new work. It is India's most-used quick muhurat system for travel, purchases and new beginnings.
Amrit (Moon) is the best, followed by Shubh (Jupiter) and Labh (Mercury). Char (Venus) is also good, especially for travel. Avoid starting new work in Udveg, Kaal and Rog.
Because Choghadiya is built from actual sunrise and sunset, which change with your latitude and longitude. A printed Delhi table is wrong for Mumbai, Chennai or New Jersey. This calculator computes real sun times for your chosen city.
Tradition treats Rahu Kaal as the stronger inauspicious weight, so pick a good Choghadiya slot outside Rahu Kaal. This page marks Rahu Kaal clearly so you can choose a clean window.
Yes. The night table runs from sunset to the next sunrise in 8 parts with its own sequence, used for night travel and events after dark.
ShukrAI computes Choghadiya from real astronomical sunrise/sunset for the chosen city. Muhurat guidance is for tradition and reflection; it is never a prediction of doom and not a substitute for professional advice.
