Choghadiya Today

For cities outside India, each in its own local time

Why every city has its own choghadiya

Choghadiya divides the time from sunrise to sunset into eight equal parts, and the night into eight more, so it depends on when the sun rises and sets where you are. Each city's page has all sixteen choghadiyas in local time, marks the one running now, and shows the next good one. For Indian cities, the Hindi pages cover all the cities on this site.

Not a fixed hour and a half

Good, neutral and bad

Amrit, Shubh and Labh are auspicious; Udveg, Kaal and Rog are inauspicious; Char is generally treated as neutral, and many traditions count it as fine for travel. The weekday decides which choghadiya opens the day and which opens the night:

The night after midnight still belongs to the weekday that began at the last sunrise, and on the nights the clocks change the eight night parts stay equal in real time.