Choghadiya Today

Choghadiya is the classical day-planner of the panchang: the span from sunrise to sunset, and again from sunset to next sunrise, is divided into eight blocks each, ruled in turn by the planets. Each block carries a fixed quality — Amrit (best), Shubha, Laabha and Chara (good), Rog, Kaala and Udveg (avoid) — so any moment of the day can be judged at a glance.

Amrit is the strongest — classical texts call it fit for any undertaking. Shubha, Laabha and Chara are good for most beginnings. Rog, Kaala and Udveg are avoided for new starts; work already underway simply continues through them.

One eighth of the daylight span (and one eighth of the night), so roughly 90 minutes — longer on summer days, shorter in winter, and different again at night. That is why the blocks are computed from your city's true sunrise and sunset rather than a fixed clock table.

They are anchored to local sunrise and sunset, which move with longitude and latitude. Mumbai's blocks trail Delhi's by several minutes; Dubai's and New York's differ by hours. The tool computes each of the 50 cities from its own coordinates.

The eight night blocks run from sunset to the next sunrise. Slots that fall past midnight are shown against the same civil date with their actual clock times, so an 1:40 AM block belongs to the evening that started it. Amrit and Shubha night slots are classically used for travel and urgent starts.