Choghadiya Today — Day & Night Chogadia Timings

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Choghadiya is Jyotish for people in a hurry — a folk-electional system, beloved of Gujarati traders and travellers, that pre-labels every slice of the day so you never need a priest for an errand. The day carries eight slots and the night carries eight more, each named for the planet that rules it: Amrit (Moon), Shubh (Jupiter), and Labh (Mercury) are the openly auspicious three; Char (Venus) is neutral and specifically friendly to travel and movement; Rog (Mars), Kaal (Saturn), and Udveg (Sun) are the three the tradition lets pass before beginning anything valued.

The mechanics are tidy. Sunrise-to-sunset divided by eight gives the daytime slot length — about ninety minutes on an equal day, longer in summer, shorter in winter — and sunset-to-next-sunrise divided by eight gives the night slots. The first daytime slot always belongs to the weekday’s lord (Amrit opens Monday, Rog opens Tuesday, Shubh opens Thursday, and so on), the sequence then walks a fixed planetary cycle, and the eighth slot repeats the first. Night runs its own tabled starting point per weekday — Sunday night, for instance, opens with Shubh.

Read it as a preference map, not a minefield. A Labh slot is a nudge to send the proposal now rather than at four; an Udveg slot is a nudge to make tea and prepare instead of launching. The system says nothing about tasks already in motion, and it was never meant to overrule a properly elected muhurat, your own dasha timing, or plain common sense — it is the everyday layer beneath all three.

The seven Choghadiya names and how to use each

Amrit (Moon): The nectar slot — first choice for anything you want to go sweetly: family matters, ceremonies, health starts, reconciliation.
Shubh (Jupiter): Broadly auspicious. Weddings-adjacent tasks, education, finance, pujas — if in doubt and Shubh is running, proceed.
Labh (Mercury): The gain slot — trade, sales, negotiations, listings, launches with a profit motive. The merchant tradition’s favourite.
Char (Venus): Neutral, and positively good for what MOVES: departures, shipping, vehicle work, shifting house. Static beginnings get no special lift here.
Rog (Mars): The illness-and-conflict flavour. Skipped for fresh starts; classically acceptable for confrontations you did not choose, like a dispute you must answer today.
Kaal (Saturn): Loss and delay for beginnings — though Gujarati mercantile practice admits it for wealth-hoarding tasks, a good reminder these labels are working guidance, not law.
Udveg (Sun): Agitation. Government dealings are the traditional exception where Udveg is tolerated; otherwise let it pass before you begin.

How each weekday’s daytime run begins

First slot = the weekday lord’s chogadia; the cycle then proceeds in fixed planetary order and slot eight repeats slot one.

Sunday: Opens with Udveg (Sun). Full run: Udveg, Char, Labh, Amrit, Kaal, Shubh, Rog, Udveg.
Monday: Opens with Amrit (Moon) — the gentlest start to any week’s daylight.
Tuesday: Opens with Rog (Mars); the first good slot arrives later in the morning.
Wednesday: Opens with Labh (Mercury) — traders’ favourite dawn of the week.
Thursday: Opens with Shubh (Jupiter).
Friday: Opens with Char (Venus). Full run: Char, Labh, Amrit, Kaal, Shubh, Rog, Udveg, Char.
Saturday: Opens with Kaal (Saturn); patient, structural work suits the early hours better than launches.

Building Friday’s day table for a 6:00–18:00 day

Day length 720 minutes ÷ 8 = 90 minutes per slot — an equal day, so the arithmetic stays clean.
Friday’s lord is Venus, so slot one is Char: 6:00–7:30. The fixed cycle then gives Labh 7:30–9:00 and Amrit 9:00–10:30.
Continue: Kaal 10:30–12:00, Shubh 12:00–13:30, Rog 13:30–15:00, Udveg 15:00–16:30, and the eighth slot repeats the first — Char 16:30–18:00.
Decision reading: a courier dispatch fits either Char slot; a price negotiation belongs in Labh at 7:30 or Shubh after noon; and 10:30–12:00 (Kaal) is the stretch to prepare rather than begin.

One division, one starting planet, one fixed cycle — the whole table falls out of three facts. The page does this for your real sun times, day and night, every date you pick.

What this tool can NOT tell you

A clean Choghadiya does not override your personal dasha or a properly elected muhurat — it is the coarse everyday layer, useful precisely because it is quick, and no more than that.
Good and avoid slots can overlap the daily kaals: an Amrit slot with Rahu Kaal running inside it is not fully clean. Check both tables — this page cross-flags the collisions for you.
Slot boundaries depend on your city’s sunrise and sunset. A table computed for Ahmedabad is minutes-to-tens-of-minutes wrong in Kolkata; always compute for where you stand.
Choghadiya labels are cultural timing preferences, not outcome guarantees — the tradition itself admits exceptions (Kaal for savings, Udveg for government work), which tells you these are heuristics to schedule by, not laws to fear.

Computed with Swiss Ephemeris, Lahiri ayanamsa · Content reviewed 2026-07-21

Choghadiya, explained

Reference pages, each answering a different question about the eight-part division. They are reading, not calculators — the calculator is on Choghadiya Today.

Choghadiya — the whole system in one page — What is choghadiya, in full — the division, the naming rule, the day/night difference and the ranking — stated once so the rest of the cluster can go deep on one part each without repeating the definition?
Din ka Choghadiya — the daytime table, weekday by weekday — Which choghadiya does each weekday’s daylight begin with, why does the sequence start there rather than anywhere else, and what does that opening choice do to the favourability of the other seven slots?
Raat ka Choghadiya — the night table, and where it comes from — Why does the night sequence start on a different choghadiya from the day sequence of the same weekday, and what single rule generates every night row from the day row you already know?
Choghadiya tomorrow — the two things that change overnight — How much does tomorrow’s choghadiya table actually differ from today’s — separating the fixed rotation of the names from the variable slide of the clock times, and how far does that slide go in a single day?

Computed for a city

Every boundary is a fraction of local daylight, so these are eleven genuinely different tables, not one table with the name changed.

Choghadiya in Ahmedabad — slot lengths, sunrise anchor and the full grid — How much does a choghadiya slot in Ahmedabad — the city whose mercantile tradition kept this system alive — actually stretch between its shortest winter day and its longest summer one?
Choghadiya in Bangalore — slot lengths, sunrise anchor and the full grid — Bangalore has the smallest annual day-length swing of the eleven cities — is a choghadiya slot here stable enough that a single remembered timing works all year?
Choghadiya in Chennai — slot lengths, sunrise anchor and the full grid — Chennai is the easternmost city in this cluster and the one whose clock and sun agree most closely — why does it nonetheless have the earliest sunset in India’s big-city set, including in midsummer?
Choghadiya in New Delhi — slot lengths, sunrise anchor and the full grid — Delhi has the widest annual day-length swing of any major Indian city — what does a 3h 39m swing do to the length of a single choghadiya slot, and to the night slots that have to absorb the difference?
Choghadiya in Hyderabad — slot lengths, sunrise anchor and the full grid — Hyderabad is the closest of these eleven cities to the IST meridian after Chennai — what does a place where clock time and sun time nearly agree reveal about how much the offset distorts everywhere else?
Choghadiya in Jaipur — slot lengths, sunrise anchor and the full grid — Jaipur has the second-widest day-length swing in this cluster — what does a 3h 23m swing mean for the winter grid, when eight daylight slots have to fit into 10h 27m?
Choghadiya in Mumbai — slot lengths, sunrise anchor and the full grid — Where do Mumbai’s eight daylight choghadiya actually fall against a 9-to-6 working day, given that the city’s slot boundaries never line up with the hour?
Choghadiya in Pune — slot lengths, sunrise anchor and the full grid — Pune is 120 km inland from Mumbai and reads a different choghadiya table — how much of that difference is longitude, how much is latitude, and does a daily commuter between them need to care?
Choghadiya in Rajkot — slot lengths, sunrise anchor and the full grid — Rajkot is the westernmost city in this cluster — what does sitting 11.7 degrees west of the IST meridian do to when its choghadiya grid opens on the clock, compared with cities on the same table?
Choghadiya in Surat — slot lengths, sunrise anchor and the full grid — Surat and Ahmedabad are 230 km apart on the same meridian — when is it safe to use one city’s choghadiya table for the other, and where exactly does that shortcut break?
Choghadiya in Vadodara — slot lengths, sunrise anchor and the full grid — Ahmedabad, Vadodara and Surat are all in Gujarat and all print different choghadiya tables — how far apart are three cities in one state, and is the difference between them worth a separate lookup?

Choghadiya Today — Day & Night Chogadia Timings — frequently asked

Which Choghadiya is best for travel?

Char — literally "moving" — is the classical travel slot, ruled by Venus, and it is considered neutral-to-good precisely because motion suits it. Amrit, Shubh, and Labh also serve travel well. What the tradition asks you to skip for a departure are Rog, Kaal, and Udveg. If your bus leaves in Udveg anyway, take the bus: Choghadiya is a preference system for times you can choose, not a reason to miss what you cannot.

What do Rog, Kaal, and Udveg actually mean?

They are the three cautionary slots: Rog (Mars) carries the flavour of illness and conflict, Kaal (Saturn) of loss and delay, Udveg (Sun) of anxiety and agitation. The tradition avoids BEGINNING valued work in them — it does not claim harm to whatever you are already doing. One nuance worth knowing: Kaal is sometimes accepted for wealth-accumulation tasks in Gujarati mercantile practice, a reminder that these labels are working guidance, not physics.

How is the order of slots decided each day?

The first daytime slot always belongs to the weekday's planetary lord — Udveg on Sunday (Sun), Amrit on Monday (Moon), Rog on Tuesday (Mars), Labh on Wednesday (Mercury), Shubh on Thursday (Jupiter), Char on Friday (Venus), Kaal on Saturday (Saturn). From there the sequence cycles through a fixed planetary order, and the eighth slot repeats the first. Night runs its own tabled sequence from sunset to the next sunrise.

Is ninety minutes per Choghadiya exact?

Only on a day with exactly twelve hours of daylight. The real rule is sunrise-to-sunset divided by eight for the day slots, and sunset-to-next-sunrise divided by eight for the night — so in high summer a Delhi day slot can run near 100 minutes while its night slots shrink, and winter flips that. This is why the calculator asks for your city instead of printing one national table.

The eight daylight choghadiya are not eight different names — they are one seven-name cycle with the first name repeated at the end, and the only thing a weekday changes is where the day enters the wheel. Sunday opens on Udveg, Monday on Amrit, Tuesday on Rog, Wednesday on Labh, Thursday on Shubh, Friday on Chal, Saturday on Kaal. The ranks shown are the ones AskSoma's timing engine actually scores with (Amrit 4, Shubh 3, Labh 2, Chal 1, and Udveg, Rog and Kaal all 0), not a colour scheme.

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Written by Savan Vyas, founder of AskSoma.

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