About Choghadiya Now

What this site is

Every page here answers one question for one city on one day: which windows are running, when they begin and end, and what tradition says about them. The eight timings are:

• Choghadiya: All sixteen periods of the day and night, and which of them are worth using.
• Rahu Kaal: An eighth of the daylight, about ninety minutes, when nothing new is started.
• Abhijit Muhurat: The muhurta astride solar noon, the safe default for a beginning.
• Brahma Muhurta: The second-last muhurta of the night, the time tradition keeps for practice.
• Yamaganda: The second daily avoidance window, the one for health and paperwork.
• Gulika Kaal: The window whose events are said to repeat, which cuts both ways.
• Dur Muhurtam: One unlucky muhurta of the day’s fifteen, set by the weekday.
• Hora: Twenty-four planetary hours, and what each ruler is traditionally used for.

Pick a city from the bar at the top and every time on the site is recomputed for that city’s sunrise and sunset. There are nearly twelve thousand cities to choose from, in India and outside it.

How the times are made

Nothing here is copied from another site or looked up in a printed almanac. The sun’s rise and set are computed for the city’s exact coordinates, Muhurta Shastra’s divisions are applied to that span, and the result is checked against published reference panchangs; the tables agree to within a minute, and where a convention differs between traditions the page says which one it follows. The whole method, including where and why this site differs from others, is on the sources and accuracypage.

What it is not

A record of tradition, not advice. This site describes what the panchang says about a window; it does not tell you what to do with your day, your money or your health, and it is not a substitute for a muhurta set by a priest or astrologer for a specific ceremony. A wedding, a naming or a griha pravesh is fixed from a full reading against the family’s charts, not from a daily table, ours or anyone else’s.

Who makes it

Choghadiya Now is built and maintained by one independent developer, who writes the explanations, maintains the calculation engine and answers reader correspondence.

That is worth being plain about, because the accuracy claim rests on it. The engine is written from Muhurta Shastra’s own divisions rather than copied from anyone’s table, and every timing is checked against published reference values before a page goes live: all eight timings, across cities in both hemispheres and across the days the clocks change. Where a convention differs between traditions, the page says which one it follows rather than presenting one as the only answer. The sources and accuracy page shows the working.

It is an independent site with no affiliation to any temple, publisher or astrology service, and no priest or astrologer is on staff, which is exactly why it reports what the tradition computes rather than advising you what to do. It is supported by advertising, which never changes a time or a reading.

Found a time that disagrees with your panchang? Please write inwith the city and date. A real discrepancy is the most useful message this site can get, and it is how the engine has been improved so far. You can also reach us at hello@choghadiyanow.com.