The midday Abhijit window for your city and date, computed from your local sunrise and sunset as the 8th of 15 equal parts of daylight - so its time and length change with season and place. Not a hardcoded 11:36 to 12:24 - and matched 14 dates for 14 on duration against a year of recorded almanac output.
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Daylight from sunrise to sunset is divided into 15 equal parts; Abhijit Muhurat is the 8th part, centred on the midpoint of the day. Its length is therefore one fifteenth of the day length and changes with the season - it is not a fixed 48 minutes.
Displayed times are rounded to the nearest minute of the local clock (ties go to the later minute), and the duration is rounded from the exact window independently - so on days where the true length sits near a half minute, the printed end minus start can differ from the printed duration by one minute.
Sunrise and sunset are computed with a Meeus/NOAA-style algorithm with the standard 50' refraction convention, the same engine as our Rahu Kaal tool.
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astrology| Definition | The 8th of 15 equal parts of daylight, centred on the day's midpoint |
|---|---|
| Formula | Duration = (sunset - sunrise) / 15, from your city's actual sun times |
| Typical length | 43 to 54 minutes across a year at one city (measured); 48 minutes only on an exactly 12-hour day |
| Rounding | Nearest local-clock minute, ties to the later minute; duration rounded independently |
| Weekday caveat | Wednesday (and Manglik activities) - advisory only, window always computed |
| Supported dates | 1900-01-02 to 2032-12-30 (measured accuracy limits) |
| Sunrise model | Meeus/NOAA-style with the standard 50' refraction convention |
Abhijit (“the unconquered”) is the window centred on midday, traditionally held auspicious for beginning most undertakings - the reasoning in the tradition being that the Sun at its height overcomes obstacles. Unlike Rahu Kaal, which is a window to avoid, Abhijit is a window people seek out when no better muhurta has been worked out for the task.
It is defined solar-geometrically: divide the time from your local sunrise to your local sunset into 15 equal parts, and Abhijit is the 8th - the middle one, sitting symmetrically around the moment halfway between sunrise and sunset. That midpoint is usually not 12:00 on the clock, which is one of the two reasons published timings differ from city to city and day to day. The other is that daylight itself stretches and shrinks with the season.
Published descriptions of Abhijit do not agree with each other. On a single day, for a single city, one page of search results described the same window as roughly 51 minutes (one fifteenth of that day’s daylight, stated by two sources), exactly 48 minutes as a fixed rule, and 40 minutes - twice. One widely-read source even disagrees with itself: its worked example correctly derives 11:36 to 12:24 for a 6:00-to-18:00 day (48 minutes, which is 720 / 15) and then restates that same window as 11:40 to 12:20, which is 40 minutes and does not follow from its own arithmetic.
So here is this page’s convention, stated plainly enough to check:
The fixed-48-minutes belief is the equal-day special case of this rule, and the “24 minutes either side of midday” phrasing is the same special case in different words. On real days the computed window at the same city ran from 43 minutes in winter to 54 at the solstice. Where other calculators publish a differing time, the difference is almost always their convention, their sunrise model, or their rounding - which is why we state all three of ours.
The contemporary panchang source we verified states that Abhijit is “not suitable” on Wednesdays, and likewise not for Manglik activities such as marriage and Upanayana ceremonies. Treat both as traditional suitability advisories attributed to that source: the same source computes and displays a perfectly normal window on Wednesdays, and this tool does the same. When the date you pick is a Wednesday, the result card says so next to the window; nothing is hidden or blanked. Whether the caveat governs your plans is a judgement for you and your tradition, not for a calculator.
Abhijit Muhurat is the midday window of the Hindu day, traditionally regarded as auspicious for starting most activities. In the convention this tool implements, the daylight between local sunrise and sunset is divided into 15 equal parts and Abhijit is the 8th part - the one centred on the midpoint of the day. Because it is defined from your city's actual sunrise and sunset, both its clock time and its length change with location and season.
No. The window is one fifteenth of the day's actual daylight, centred on the day's midpoint, so it shifts and stretches with the season. Across one year at one city we measured its duration ranging from 43 to 54 minutes, and its start moving by roughly half an hour. Any source that prints one fixed window for every day is describing a special case, not the rule.
No. 48 minutes is what the rule gives only when daylight is exactly 12 hours: 720 minutes divided by 15 is 48, which places the window 24 minutes either side of a 12:00 midday - 11:36 to 12:24. On longer days it is longer and on shorter days shorter. Published descriptions disagree with each other here: on a single day and city we found the same window stated as about 51 minutes, exactly 48, and 40 minutes on one page of results. This page states its convention precisely so you can check it: (sunset - sunrise) / 15, 8th part, centred on the midpoint.
The contemporary panchang source we verified states Abhijit is not suitable on Wednesday, and also not for Manglik activities such as marriage and Upanayana ceremonies. That is a traditional suitability caveat, not a computation - the same source still computes and displays a normal window on Wednesdays, and so does this tool. We show the caveat alongside the window and leave the judgement to you and your tradition.
No. Abhijit Muhurat is a solar window around midday, defined from sunrise and sunset. Abhijit Nakshatra is a 28th star segment between Uttara Ashadha and Shravana, used mainly in muhurta astrology; mainstream natal practice uses 27 nakshatras. Our Birth Star page documents the 28th nakshatra; this page computes only the midday window.
Any city in our list, for dates from 1900-01-02 to 2032-12-30. The limits are measured, not arbitrary: they are the dates for which every sunrise and sunset this tool consumes stays inside the span where our solar and delta-T data is accuracy-checked. Outside the range the tool refuses rather than guessing. At extreme polar latitudes, on dates when the sun does not both rise and set, there is no sunrise-to-sunset window and the tool says so instead of inventing one.
Nishita Kaal is the midnight counterpart of Abhijit - a short window centred on solar midnight, used in some traditions for specific rituals. This page computes only the midday Abhijit window.
This page is the canonical surface for these terms: Abhijit Muhurat, Abhijit Muhurta, Abhijit Muhurtham, Abhijin Muhurat, Kutub Muhurat, Chaturtha Lagna and Swami Tithiyansha Muhurat. They all refer to the midday window computed above. The midnight counterpart is Nishita Kaal, which this page does not compute.