Choghadiya Today: Find Your Best Time, Full Day and Night Tables, and 2 Rahu Kaal Traps

Choghadiya is a simple muhurta system that divides the time from sunrise to sunset into eight parts and the time from sunset to the next sunrise into another eight. Each part is ruled by one of seven planets and is named Amrit, Shubh, Labh, Char, Udveg, Kaal or Rog. Amrit, Shubh and Labh are good for starting work, Char is good for travel, and Udveg, Kaal and Rog are avoided. It is widely used in Gujarat, Rajasthan and Maharashtra, and by traders across India, because it needs nothing more than the local sunrise and sunset.

This guide explains what each choghadiya means, gives the full day and night order for every weekday, shows how to calculate it for your own city, and points out a detail most choghadiya charts leave out: on some weekdays a “good” choghadiya falls exactly inside Rahu Kaal.

• The seven choghadiyas and what they mean
• Day choghadiya table for every weekday
• Night choghadiya table
• How to calculate choghadiya yourself
• The Rahu Kaal overlap
• When to use choghadiya and when not to
• Frequently asked questions

The seven choghadiyas and what they mean

The name comes from chau, four, and ghadi, the old Indian unit of 24 minutes. Four ghadis make 96 minutes, which is the length of a choghadiya on the equinoxes. On other days the eight day choghadiyas and the eight night choghadiyas are longer or shorter, because day and night are of unequal length.

Choghadiya	Ruling planet	Nature	Traditionally used for
Amrit	Moon	Best	All good work: puja, purchases, starting a business, travel, ceremonies
Shubh	Jupiter	Good	Marriage-related work, religious ceremonies, education, signing agreements
Labh	Mercury	Gain	Business, trade, opening accounts, learning a new skill
Char	Venus	Neutral, moving	Travel, vehicles, shifting, anything that involves movement
Udveg	Sun	Unfavourable	Avoided in general; tolerated for government-related work
Kaal	Saturn	Inauspicious	Avoided for new beginnings
Rog	Mars	Inauspicious	Avoided for new beginnings, especially health and travel

The planets follow the natural benefic and malefic logic of Jyotish. The Moon, Jupiter, Mercury and Venus are benefics, so their periods are good. The Sun, Saturn and Mars are malefics, so theirs are not.

Day choghadiya table for every weekday

The first choghadiya after sunrise belongs to the lord of the weekday. Sunday starts with the Sun’s Udveg, Monday with the Moon’s Amrit, and so on. After that the order is fixed: Udveg, Char, Labh, Amrit, Kaal, Shubh, Rog, repeating. The eighth choghadiya of the day is always the same as the first.

No.	Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
1	Udveg	Amrit	Rog	Labh	Shubh	Char	Kaal
2	Char	Kaal	Udveg	Amrit	Rog	Labh	Shubh
3	Labh	Shubh	Char	Kaal	Udveg	Amrit	Rog
4	Amrit	Rog	Labh	Shubh	Char	Kaal	Udveg
5	Kaal	Udveg	Amrit	Rog	Labh	Shubh	Char
6	Shubh	Char	Kaal	Udveg	Amrit	Rog	Labh
7	Rog	Labh	Shubh	Char	Kaal	Udveg	Amrit
8	Udveg	Amrit	Rog	Labh	Shubh	Char	Kaal

Night choghadiya table

At night the order changes to Shubh, Amrit, Char, Rog, Kaal, Labh, Udveg. The first night choghadiya belongs to the lord of the fifth weekday counted from the day itself: Sunday night starts with Thursday’s Shubh, Monday night with Friday’s Char, and so on.

No.	Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
1	Shubh	Char	Kaal	Udveg	Amrit	Rog	Labh
2	Amrit	Rog	Labh	Shubh	Char	Kaal	Udveg
3	Char	Kaal	Udveg	Amrit	Rog	Labh	Shubh
4	Rog	Labh	Shubh	Char	Kaal	Udveg	Amrit
5	Kaal	Udveg	Amrit	Rog	Labh	Shubh	Char
6	Labh	Shubh	Char	Kaal	Udveg	Amrit	Rog
7	Udveg	Amrit	Rog	Labh	Shubh	Char	Kaal
8	Shubh	Char	Kaal	Udveg	Amrit	Rog	Labh

Remember that in the Hindu calendar the night belongs to the day before it. The “Monday night” choghadiyas run from Monday’s sunset to Tuesday’s sunrise, even after the clock has passed midnight.

How to calculate choghadiya yourself

1. Find today’s sunrise and sunset, and tomorrow’s sunrise, for your city. The daily Panchang gives all three.
2. Day length = sunset minus sunrise. Divide it by 8 to get one day choghadiya.
3. Night length = next sunrise minus sunset. Divide it by 8 to get one night choghadiya.
4. Count forward from sunrise and from sunset, and label each part from the tables above.

Here is a worked example for New Delhi on Monday, 2 November 2026. Sunrise is at 6:33 AM and sunset at 5:36 PM, so the day lasts about 11 hours and each day choghadiya is 83 minutes. The night lasts about 13 hours until sunrise at 6:34 AM, so each night choghadiya is 97 minutes.

Day	Time	Night	Time
Amrit	6:33 AM to 7:56 AM	Char	5:36 PM to 7:13 PM
Kaal	7:56 AM to 9:19 AM	Rog	7:13 PM to 8:50 PM
Shubh	9:19 AM to 10:42 AM	Kaal	8:50 PM to 10:28 PM
Rog	10:42 AM to 12:05 PM	Labh	10:28 PM to 12:05 AM
Udveg	12:05 PM to 1:27 PM	Udveg	12:05 AM to 1:42 AM
Char	1:27 PM to 2:50 PM	Shubh	1:42 AM to 3:20 AM
Labh	2:50 PM to 4:13 PM	Amrit	3:20 AM to 4:57 AM
Amrit	4:13 PM to 5:36 PM	Char	4:57 AM to 6:34 AM

A choghadiya is not a fixed 90 minutes. In Delhi a day choghadiya is about 77 minutes in late December and about 105 minutes in late June, and the night ones change the other way. Using one fixed chart for the whole year can put you in the wrong period by half an hour or more.

The Rahu Kaal overlap most charts miss

Rahu Kaal is also one eighth of the daytime, and it is counted from sunrise in exactly the same way. That means Rahu Kaal always coincides with one complete day choghadiya. On most days that choghadiya is already a bad one, but on two weekdays it is a good one:

Weekday	Rahu Kaal falls in	Choghadiya at that time	Yamaganda falls in
Sunday	8th part	Udveg	Kaal
Monday	2nd part	Kaal	Rog
Tuesday	7th part	Shubh	Char
Wednesday	5th part	Rog	Amrit
Thursday	6th part	Amrit	Shubh
Friday	4th part	Kaal	Udveg
Saturday	3rd part	Rog	Labh

So the Shubh choghadiya on Tuesday afternoon and the Amrit choghadiya on Thursday afternoon are both inside Rahu Kaal. Yamaganda, another eighth-of-the-day period that many panchangs avoid, covers Wednesday’s morning Amrit, Thursday’s first Shubh and Saturday’s Labh. Across a whole week, 32 of the 56 day choghadiyas are of a good type, but only 26 of them are free of both Rahu Kaal and Yamaganda.

This is why careful families check Rahu Kaal alongside the choghadiya. You can see it for your city with the Rahu Kalam calculator. Our Bhai Dooj 2026 guide shows a real example, where the afternoon tilak window starts inside Wednesday’s Rahu Kaal.

When to use choghadiya and when not to

Choghadiya is a quick tool for everyday decisions: when to leave on a journey, open the shop, sign a document, pay a deposit or buy something. It is especially popular for festival business rituals. On Diwali, Gujarati traders choose a good evening choghadiya for Chopda Pujan, as shown in our Diwali 2026 muhurat guide, and on Dhanteras many buyers time their gold purchase the same way.

For bigger events it is not enough on its own. Weddings, griha pravesh, mundan, naming ceremonies and the start of construction need a full muhurta: the right tithi, nakshatra, yoga and karana, a suitable rising sign, and a check against both people’s charts. Choghadiya can help choose the hour inside a good day, but it cannot make a bad day good. For spiritual practice before dawn, look at Brahma Muhurta instead.

If you are planning something that matters, such as a business launch or a property purchase, your own chart decides more than any hour of the day. A free Kundli shows your running dasha, and our premium reports point out the favourable periods in the year ahead.

Frequently asked questions

Which choghadiya is best?

Amrit is considered the best for any activity, followed by Shubh and Labh. Char is good for travel. Udveg, Kaal and Rog are avoided for new beginnings.

How long is one choghadiya?

One eighth of the day or of the night. It is 96 minutes only when day and night are equal. In North India a day choghadiya ranges from about 77 minutes in winter to about 105 minutes in summer.

Is choghadiya the same in every city?

The order is the same everywhere, but the clock times change with local sunrise and sunset. Kolkata’s choghadiyas begin nearly an hour earlier than Mumbai’s on the same day.

Can I travel in Char choghadiya?

Yes. Char, ruled by Venus, means “moving” and is traditionally the choghadiya for travel and anything involving vehicles. Avoid it if it falls inside Rahu Kaal or Yamaganda, as on Tuesday morning’s third slot.

What is the difference between choghadiya and hora?

Hora divides the day and night into 12 parts each, one for each planet in turn, while choghadiya uses 8 parts. Both are quick electional tools. Choghadiya is more common in western India and hora in South India and among astrologers.

How this guide was prepared: the day and night sequences follow the standard choghadiya tables used in Gujarati and North Indian panchangs. The Delhi example and the seasonal lengths were calculated by Nakshatra Finder with the Swiss Ephemeris. The Rahu Kaal and Yamaganda overlaps follow from the standard weekday positions of those periods.