Choghadiya today for your city
This choghadiya calculator shows today’s day and night choghadiya — Amrit, Shubh, Labh, Char, Udveg, Kaal and Rog — worked out from the actual sunrise and sunset at your city. Press Tomorrow for choghadiya tomorrow, or pick any date. It works anywhere: Ahmedabad and Mumbai, or New York, Houston and London for choghadiya today USA and UK, with daylight saving time handled automatically.
Names can be shown in English, Hindi or Gujarati (ચોઘડિયા), and the current choghadiya is highlighted when you look at today. Choghadiya is part of the Hindu panchang tradition; this page is for tradition and entertainment, not prediction or advice.
How to use the Choghadiya Calculator
- Choose your City, or type latitude, longitude and time zone, or press Use my location. The city is remembered on this device.
- Press Today or Tomorrow, or pick any Date.
- Read the panel: the choghadiya running now (on today’s date), sunrise and sunset, and the next Amrit, Shubh or Labh period.
- Check the Day choghadiya and Night choghadiya tables and the coloured strip from sunrise to the next sunrise.
- Switch Names in to Hindi or Gujarati, or the clock to 24-hour, and press Copy as text to share the table.
Choghadiya Calculator features
Real local sunrise and sunset
Each choghadiya is one-eighth of that day’s actual daylight or night at your coordinates, not a fixed 90-minute block, so times match printed panchangs.
Checked against a published panchang
The built-in self-test compares full day and night tables for New Delhi and New York with a widely used online panchang, to within two minutes.
Now and next
On today’s date the running choghadiya is highlighted, and the panel shows the next good period; before sunrise it correctly shows the previous night.
English, Hindi and Gujarati
Amrit / अमृत / અમૃત and the rest, with weekday names in the same script.
Any city, any time zone
Ninety preset cities plus custom coordinates, with the browser’s time-zone database for daylight saving time in the USA, UK and Europe.
How choghadiya is calculated
The Hindu day runs from sunrise to the next sunrise. Daylight (sunrise to sunset) is divided into eight equal parts and the night (sunset to the next sunrise) into eight more — each part is a choghadiya, about four ghatis or 1½ hours, longer by day in summer and shorter in winter. Each choghadiya is ruled by a planet and named after it: Sun → Udveg, Venus → Char, Mercury → Labh, Moon → Amrit, Saturn → Kaal, Jupiter → Shubh, Mars → Rog.
The first day choghadiya belongs to the weekday’s own planet, and the rest follow in the order Udveg, Char, Labh, Amrit, Kaal, Shubh, Rog, so the eighth is the same as the first. The night starts from the planet of the weekday four days later (Sunday night begins with Jupiter’s Shubh) and steps in the order Shubh, Amrit, Char, Rog, Kaal, Labh, Udveg.
| Weekday | First day choghadiya | First night choghadiya |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | Udveg | Shubh |
| Monday | Amrit | Char |
| Tuesday | Rog | Kaal |
| Wednesday | Labh | Udveg |
| Thursday | Shubh | Amrit |
| Friday | Char | Rog |
| Saturday | Kaal | Labh |
Good and bad choghadiya
Amrit (best), Shubh (good) and Labh (gain) are the three considered auspicious; Char is neutral and traditionally used for travel; Udveg, Kaal and Rog are considered inauspicious for new beginnings, though tradition still assigns each a use. Some almanacs also mark Vaar Vela, Kaal Vela and Kaal Ratri inside the table; their method is not published consistently, so this page does not show them. For a fuller panchang-based search use the muhurat finder, and for the 24 planetary hours of the same day the hora calculator.
| Choghadiya | Gujarati | Planet | Quality | Traditionally for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amrit | અમૃત | Moon | Best | All kinds of work |
| Shubh | શુભ | Jupiter | Good | Marriage, religious rites |
| Labh | લાભ | Mercury | Gain | Business, study |
| Char | ચલ | Venus | Neutral | Travel |
| Udveg | ઉદ્વેગ | Sun | Bad | Government work |
| Kaal | કાળ | Saturn | Loss | Wealth-building work |
| Rog | રોગ | Mars | Bad | Disputes, competition |
Why choghadiya times differ between cities and websites
Because each choghadiya is a fraction of local daylight, Mumbai and Kolkata differ by about half an hour, and two dates a week apart differ by a minute or two. Tables can also differ by a minute depending on how sunrise is defined; this page uses the Sun’s upper edge with standard refraction, the panchang convention. If your family follows a temple calendar that uses a fixed 6 am sunrise, its times will differ. See the sunrise and sunset calculator for the underlying times.
Choghadiya Calculator FAQ
What is today’s choghadiya?
Open the page: it shows today’s choghadiya for the city you pick and highlights the one running now. Today is taken from your device clock in the chosen time zone.
Which choghadiya is good today?
Amrit, Shubh and Labh are the auspicious ones; Char is neutral. The panel names the next of these, and the tables list all of them with times.
How do I see choghadiya tomorrow?
Press Tomorrow, or pick the date. Tomorrow’s night choghadiya runs until the sunrise after it.
Does it work for choghadiya today in the USA?
Yes. Choose New York, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles or another city, or your own coordinates; the times use local sunrise and sunset and US daylight saving time.
Can I see the choghadiya in Gujarati?
Yes — set Names in to ગુજરાતી. Hindi is available too.
Why does the night choghadiya cross midnight?
The Hindu day ends at the next sunrise, not at midnight, so the night choghadiya run until sunrise; times after midnight are marked +1.
Does a choghadiya decide whether something will go well?
No. It is a traditional time label. This page makes no predictions; enjoy it as tradition.