All sixteen Choghadiya windows for your city and date - the day and the night each divided into eight equal parts from your actual sunrise, sunset and next sunrise, with each division named, its source label shown, and our good / neutral / avoid class stated as ours. All sixteen verified against live panchang output: names exact, times to the minute.
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| Muhurta | Source label | Our class | Start | End |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shubha | Good | Good | 05:53 AM | 07:31 AM |
| Roga | Evil | Avoid | 07:31 AM | 09:09 AM |
| Udvega | Bad | Avoid | 09:09 AM | 10:47 AM |
| Chara | Neutral | Neutral | 10:47 AM | 12:24 PM |
| Labha | Gain | Good | 12:24 PM | 02:02 PM |
| Amrita | Best | Good | 02:02 PM | 03:40 PM |
| Kala | Loss | Avoid | 03:40 PM | 05:18 PM |
| Shubha | Good | Good | 05:18 PM | 06:56 PM |
| Muhurta | Source label | Our class | Start | End |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amrita | Best | Good | 06:56 PM | 08:18 PM |
| Chara | Neutral | Neutral | 08:18 PM | 09:40 PM |
| Roga | Evil | Avoid | 09:40 PM | 11:02 PM |
| Kala | Loss | Avoid | 11:02 PM | 12:25 AM (21 Aug) |
| Labha | Gain | Good | 12:25 AM (21 Aug) | 01:47 AM (21 Aug) |
| Udvega | Bad | Avoid | 01:47 AM (21 Aug) | 03:09 AM (21 Aug) |
| Shubha | Good | Good | 03:09 AM (21 Aug) | 04:31 AM (21 Aug) |
| Amrita | Best | Good | 04:31 AM (21 Aug) | 05:53 AM (21 Aug) |
The panchang implementation we verified against additionally marks Vaar Vela, Kaal Vela and Kaal Ratri on some of these divisions (five of the sixteen rows on the one day we captured), and its guidance rejects auspicious work in them. This version does not compute those three overlays - their placement rules were not captured - so a row shown as Good here may still carry one of them there. Do not read this table as a full parity of an annotated panchang.
Chara (also written Char or Chanchal) is widely repeated as one of the “four good Choghadiya”. The leading calculator's own computed rows label it Neutral even while its prose calls it good; we follow the computed rows, so Chara is shown Neutral here. The “Source label” column is that source's own per-division wording; the Good / Neutral / Avoid grouping is our three-state classification.
Daylight (sunrise to sunset) and night (sunset to the NEXT day's sunrise) are each divided into eight equal parts. The first day division is ruled by the weekday's lord, and lords then follow the traditional cycle; the night sequence follows the published weekday tables, which we verified against live panchang output. Night divisions after midnight carry the next date explicitly.
Sunrise and sunset are computed with a Meeus/NOAA-style algorithm with the standard 50' refraction convention - the same engine as our Rahu Kaal and Abhijit Muhurat tools. Displayed times round to the nearest minute of the local clock, ties to the later minute.
Abhijit Muhurat start and end for your city, computed from local sunrise and sunset as the 8th of 15 daylight parts. Not a fixed 48 minutes.
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astrology| Structure | 8 day divisions (sunrise to sunset) + 8 night divisions (sunset to next sunrise), equal parts |
|---|---|
| Day rule | First division ruled by the weekday's lord; lords then follow the traditional cycle |
| Night sequence | Published weekday tables (no stated rule exists); Saturday verified against live output |
| The seven divisions | Amrita, Shubha, Labha (good) - Chara (neutral) - Udvega, Roga, Kala (avoid) |
| Chara classification | Neutral, following the leading calculator's computed rows over its own prose |
| Overlays | Vaar Vela, Kaal Vela, Kaal Ratri NOT computed in v1 - disclosed beside the tables |
| Rounding | Nearest local-clock minute, ties to the later minute |
| Supported dates | 1900-01-02 to 2032-12-30 (measured accuracy limits) |
Choghadiya is the workaday muhurta system of North and West India: when a full muhurta consultation is impractical, people pick a favourable Choghadiya window to start a journey, a purchase, or a piece of work. Each window is about one and a half hours - the day’s eight divisions are each one eighth of daylight, so their exact length changes with the season and your latitude, and night divisions differ from day ones. The windows sit on top of the day’s five-limb almanac - tithi, nakshatra, yoga, karana and vaara - which our Panchang Today page computes for the same cities from the same sunrise engine.
It is a documented regional practice rather than a system we can anchor to a classical text - we looked and have not located one, and would rather say that plainly than decorate the page with an unverified citation. The names are also written Chogadia and Chaughadia, the system is called Chaturshtika Muhurat, and the South Indian analogue is the Gowri Panchangam.
A widely repeated framing counts “four good Choghadiya”: Amrit, Shubh, Labh and Char. The leading calculator’s pages repeat that framing in prose - and then their own computed tables render the same division as “Chara - Neutral”, on the same page. The conflict is internal to the source, and we had to pick a side.
We follow the computed rows: they are what a reader checking this tool against a panchang actually sees, and neutral is the conservative direction - we will not call a window auspicious when the table you compare us against calls it neutral. The same decision fixes the spelling scheme: live output uses the -a stem forms for all seven names (Amrita, Shubha, Labha, Chara, Udvega, Roga, Kala), so this page does too, with the clipped forms (Amrit, Shubh, Labh, Char) and Chanchal noted as attested alternatives. The per-division words Best / Good / Gain / Neutral / Bad / Evil / Loss are the source’s own labels, shown in their own column; the three-state good / neutral / avoid grouping is our classification, and the page never presents it as theirs.
Choghadiya (also written Chogadia or Chaughadia, and called Chaturshtika Muhurat) is a practical muhurta system that divides the day from sunrise to sunset into eight equal parts, and the night from sunset to the next sunrise into eight more. Each part is named for its ruling planet - Amrita, Shubha, Labha, Chara, Udvega, Roga and Kala - and tradition treats some as favourable and some as windows to avoid. It is a documented regional practice, especially popular in North and West India; we have not located a classical text anchor for it, and this page says so rather than inventing one. The South Indian analogue is the Gowri Panchangam.
Published sources disagree, and the disagreement sits inside the leading calculator itself: its prose repeats the popular 'four good Choghadiya - Amrit, Shubh, Labh and Char' framing, while its own computed tables label the very same division 'Chara - Neutral'. We follow the computed rows, because a calculator's output is what readers actually compare against, and because it is the conservative direction: we would rather not call a window auspicious when the table you check us against says neutral. So this tool classes Chara as Neutral, shows the source's own label alongside, and tells you here why.
The source labels Amrita 'Best', Shubha 'Good' and Labha 'Gain', and those three carry our auspicious class. Udvega, Roga and Kala carry Bad, Evil and Loss labels and our avoid class. Chara is Neutral. Which window suits which activity is a traditional judgement, not a computation - this tool gives you the exact times and both classifications and leaves the choice with you.
Night Choghadiya runs from sunset to the NEXT day's sunrise, divided into eight equal parts. Divisions that fall past midnight belong to that night but land on the next civil date, so their times carry the next date explicitly - a 12:45 AM division of Saturday night is shown with Sunday's date. Both halves are computed from your city's actual sun times, so night divisions are usually a different length from day divisions.
Not in this version. The panchang implementation we verified against overlays those three cautionary windows on some Choghadiya divisions (five of the sixteen rows on the one day we captured) and advises rejecting even a Good division that carries one. Its placement rules were not captured, so rather than guess we omit the overlays and say so right under the tables. Treat a Good row here as 'good per the Choghadiya sequence', not as a full panchang clearance.
Any city in our list, for dates from 1900-01-02 to 2032-12-30. The limits are measured: they are the dates for which the sunrise, sunset AND next-day sunrise this tool consumes all stay inside the span where our solar and delta-T data is accuracy-checked. At extreme polar latitudes the tool refuses dates where the sun does not both rise and set, and dates whose next sunrise is more than one rotation away, instead of fabricating windows.
They are analogous but not the same system. Choghadiya is the eight-part day/night division popular in North and West India; Gowri Panchangam (or Gowri Nalla Neram) is the South Indian counterpart with its own names and sequences. This page computes Choghadiya only.
This page is the canonical surface for these terms: Choghadiya, Chogadia, Chaughadia, Chaturshtika Muhurat, day Choghadiya, night Choghadiya, and the division names Amrita, Shubha, Labha, Chara (Char, Chanchal), Udvega, Roga and Kala. They all refer to the sixteen-window system computed above.