Choghadiya today
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Today in eight cities
Each from its own sunrise- Ahmedabad16 choghadiya from 6:27 AMChoghadiya in Ahmedabad →
- Surat16 choghadiya from 6:27 AMChoghadiya in Surat →
- Jaipur16 choghadiya from 6:14 AMChoghadiya in Jaipur →
- New Delhi16 choghadiya from 6:08 AMChoghadiya in New Delhi →
- Mumbai16 choghadiya from 6:27 AMChoghadiya in Mumbai →
- Vadodara16 choghadiya from 6:25 AMChoghadiya in Vadodara →
- Rajkot16 choghadiya from 6:35 AMChoghadiya in Rajkot →
- Pune16 choghadiya from 6:23 AMChoghadiya in Pune →
What is Choghadiya?
Choghadiya divides the day into eight parts and the night into eight more, and gives each one a name that says what it is good for. It is the quickest muhurta system there is (no chart, no birth details, just the sun and the weekday), which is why it is the one most people actually use, for a journey, a purchase, or a call that matters. The name is the measure: cho is four and a ghadi is the old unit of twenty-four minutes, so four ghadi is about ninety-six minutes, the length of one choghadiya on a day with exactly twelve hours of light.
Three of the seven names are good: Amrit, Shubh and Labh are the ones to aim for. Chal (Char in some panchangs) is counted with the good ones by most, but it is the mildest of them and is set aside for travel, so this table marks it neutral. Three are avoided: Rog, Kaal and Udveg. The system is most followed in Gujarat and Rajasthan and across north and west India, which is where “aaj ka choghadiya” is searched most; Tamil Nadu’s Gowri Panchangam, the Nalla Neram table, divides the day the same way under its own names.
The seven choghadiya, and what each one is for
The seven names are the characters of the seven classical planets, and a planet’s period takes the planet’s nature: a benefic planet gives a good choghadiya, a harsh one gives a period to avoid. That is why the list divides the way it does: it is not seven arbitrary labels but the same seven rulers that the hora system walks through, hour by hour.
| Choghadiya | Planet | Verdict | Traditionally used for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amrit | Moon | good | anything: the first choice for a beginning |
| Shubh | Jupiter | good | ceremonies, marriage, puja, anything meant to last |
| Labh | Mercury | good | learning, new skills, trade and a new business |
| Chal (Char) | Venus | neutral | travel and movement, since Venus is the moving planet |
| Udveg | Sun | avoid | only government and official work |
| Kaal | Saturn | avoid | only work done to accumulate wealth |
| Rog | Mars | avoid | only disputes and competition |
In ordinary speech a “shubh choghadiya” is any of the good three; Amrit is usually listed first among them. The uses in the last column are what the muhurta tradition assigns, not rules about what will happen: a Kaal choghadiya does not stop a shop from opening, it is simply not the hour tradition would pick to open it.
How Choghadiya is calculated
- Take the exact sunrise and sunset for the city, and divide the daylight between them into eight equal parts. Each part is one day choghadiya.
- Divide the night, this sunset to tomorrow’s sunrise, into eight more. Those are the night choghadiya, and they do not run the same sequence as the day.
- The weekday decides where the cycle starts, because each weekday’s first choghadiya belongs to that weekday’s own planet: Sunday’s Sun gives Udveg, Monday’s Moon gives Amrit, Tuesday’s Mars gives Rog, Wednesday’s Mercury gives Labh, Thursday’s Jupiter gives Shubh, Friday’s Venus gives Chal, Saturday’s Saturn gives Kaal. The seven names then repeat in a fixed order, so a Tuesday always opens the same way, while the clock times move with the sun.
Why a choghadiya is rarely 96 minutes
Ninety-six is the name, not the measure. A day choghadiya is one eighth of the real daylight, and daylight is not twelve hours for most of the year. In New Delhi on 21 June 2026 the sun rises at 5:23 AM and sets at 7:21 PM, 13 hr 58 min of light, so each day choghadiya runs about 105 minutes and each night one about 75. On 21 December the day is 10 hr 19 min, and the figures reverse: 77 minutes by day, 103 by night. In New Delhi today, for example, a day choghadiya is 92 minutes and a night one 88. Further from the equator the swing is larger: London on 21 December gets a 59-minute day choghadiya.
A day choghadiya is rarely 96 minutes because daylight itself is rarely twelve hours. That is why a printed table that assumes 96 minutes is wrong for most of the year, and why this site computes every boundary from the day’s own sunrise and sunset rather than tabulating it.
Why the first and last daytime choghadiya are the same
Eight slots, seven names. The cycle walks the seven in order and comes back round to where it began, so the eighth day choghadiya always repeats the first: a Sunday opens and closes its daylight with Udveg, a Monday with Amrit. The night does the same over its own eight. It is arithmetic, not a rule, and it is visible in the order-by-weekday table further down, where the first and last columns of every row match.
Why the time differs between cities, and between websites
Two cities on the same weekday run the same sequence of names at different clock times, because the sun rises at different times. On Wednesday 16 September 2026 the first choghadiya, Labh, opens at 5:58 AM in Chennai, 6:06 AM in New Delhi and 6:26 AM in Ahmedabad. The sun, not the calendar, sets the boundaries, and every one of the sixteen moves with it.
Between websites the difference is smaller and has a different cause. Every panchang divides the day the same way; they differ on the astronomy underneath. Whether “sunrise” means the sun’s upper edge or its centre changes the moment by a minute or two. Whether the atmosphere’s bending of light near the horizon is counted changes it again. Add rounding, and two honest panchangs can differ by one to three minutes on every boundary of the day. This site uses the upper edge with refraction, the convention Indian panchangs follow, and checks the result against a published reference; how sunrise is defined here is on its own page.
Choghadiya, hora and Rahu Kaal on the same day
The hora is the same rule at a different grain: start at the weekday’s own planet and walk the classical order, over twelve parts of the day instead of eight. Rahu Kaal is also an eighth of daylight, so on any day it is exactly one named day choghadiya; in New Delhi today, for example, it is the Rog period, 9:11 AM – 10:43 AM. Across the week the pairs are fixed: Sunday Udveg, Monday Kaal, Tuesday Shubh, Wednesday Rog, Thursday Amrit, Friday Kaal, Saturday Rog. On Tuesday and Thursday a good choghadiya and Rahu Kaal are the same ninety-odd minutes, which is the case the FAQ below on Rahu Kaal is about; Yamaganda and Gulika Kaal are the same eighths picked by different weekday rules. Abhijit Muhurat sits dead centre of the light on a fifteen-part division, inside whichever choghadiya is running at solar noon, and Dur Muhurtam is on that fifteen-part grid too, so it never lines up with a choghadiya boundary. Before the first choghadiya opens there is Brahma Muhurta, the last stretch of the night.
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Frequently asked questions
What is Choghadiya?▼
Choghadiya is a muhurta system that divides daylight into eight equal periods and the night into eight more, naming each after its quality: Amrit, Shubh and Labh are auspicious, Chal is neutral, and Rog, Kaal and Udveg are avoided. It needs nothing but the date, the weekday and the local sunrise, which is why it is the everyday muhurta rather than a specialist one.
Is it Choghadiya, Chogadiya or Chaughadia?▼
All the same word. It comes from "cho" (four) and "ghadi" (a traditional 24-minute unit): a choghadiya is four ghadis, about 96 minutes on an equal day. Chogadia, chaughadia, chogdiya and choghdiya are all romanisations of the same Gujarati and Hindi term, and none of them is more correct than another.
Which choghadiya is best?▼
Amrit is treated as the best of the eight, followed by Shubh and Labh. Labh is specifically associated with gain (money, study and deals) and Shubh with anything meant to last. Chal is neutral and considered fine for travel. If you can only move something by an hour, moving it into Amrit, Shubh or Labh is the whole of the practice.
What is the difference between day and night choghadiya?▼
They run on different sequences and different lengths. Day choghadiya divide sunrise to sunset; night choghadiya divide sunset to the next sunrise. In an Indian summer a day period can run over 100 minutes while a night one runs under 85, and the two cycles start from different points in the seven-name rotation.
Does a good choghadiya override Rahu Kaal?▼
No. They are independent systems measured over the same day, and most practitioners apply both. An Amrit choghadiya that falls inside Rahu Kaal is still inside Rahu Kaal. The usual reading is that the more restrictive of the two wins, so you would wait.
Why does my choghadiya differ from another site’s?▼
Almost always because of sunrise. Panchang publishers use slightly different sunrise conventions (disc centre or upper limb, with or without atmospheric refraction), and a two-minute difference in sunrise shifts every one of the sixteen boundaries. This site uses the upper-limb-with-refraction convention, calibrated against established panchang references, and rounds to the nearest minute.
Which choghadiya is running right now?▼
The row marked “now” in the table above, and the segment the pointer sits on in the ring at the top of the page. Both are computed for this city’s own sunrise and update every minute, so if the verdict reads Go the current period is Amrit, Shubh or Labh, and if it reads Wait it is Rog, Kaal or Udveg, or one of the avoidance windows like Rahu Kaal running over the top of it.
How many minutes is one choghadiya?▼
The name says 96 minutes, four ghadis of 24, but the computed length is one eighth of the actual daylight, so it only lands near 96 in the abstract. On a day of exactly twelve hours each day period is 90 minutes. In an Indian summer a day choghadiya runs past 100 minutes while the night ones drop under 85, and in winter it reverses. The figures on this page are the real eighths for this city and date, not the nominal 96.
Which choghadiya is best for travel?▼
Chal is the one named for it: the word means movable, and it is the period traditionally set aside for journeys even though it is otherwise neutral. Amrit, Shubh and Labh are all fine for travel too. The ones to move a departure out of are Rog, Kaal and Udveg, and you would also check that the start time does not fall inside Rahu Kaal.
Which choghadiya should I use for a griha pravesh or a new vehicle?▼
Amrit and Shubh for a house-warming or anything meant to last, and Labh if the purchase is a business one. Avoid Rog, Kaal and Udveg, and check Rahu Kaal separately, since it is a different system and it overrides. For a wedding or a major ceremony, choghadiya is not enough on its own: those are set from a full muhurta reading against the panchang and the family’s charts.
Can anything be done during Rog, Kaal or Udveg?▼
Yes. These are avoidance windows for beginnings, not for existing life. Work already underway continues, and routine and unavoidable tasks are not held up for them. What tradition asks is that you do not start something you care about inside one. Each runs about an hour and a half, so moving a start time is usually all that is needed.
Why do the night choghadiya start on a different name from the day?▼
Because the two cycles enter the seven-name rotation at different points. The day sequence begins with the lord of the weekday itself; the night sequence begins from the lord of the fifth weekday ahead. That is why a Sunday opens its day with Udveg but its night with Shubh, and it is a property of the rotation rather than anything about the city or the season.
Do I need a birth chart to use choghadiya?▼
No, and that is the point of it. Choghadiya needs the date, the weekday and the local sunrise, and nothing about you: no birth time, no chart, no rashi. That is why it is the muhurta system people actually use day to day, while a wedding or a naming is set from a full horoscope reading.
Choghadiya today by city
Calibrated for local sunrise and astronomical coordinates. Select your city below:
The other daily timings
- Rahu Kaalavoid
The ninety minutes a day nothing new should be started.
- Abhijit Muhuratbest
The 48 minutes astride solar noon, the safe default for a beginning.
- Brahma Muhurtagood
The 48 minutes before dawn, the hour tradition reserves for practice.
- Yamagandaavoid
The second daily avoidance window, the one for health and paperwork.
The window whose events are said to repeat, which cuts both ways.
- Dur Muhurtamavoid
The short unlucky muhurtas of the fifteen: one or two, depending on the day.
Twenty-four planetary hours, and what each ruler is traditionally used for.