Choghadiya Today — Day & Night Chogadia Timings

See today's full Choghadiya table for your city — eight daytime and eight nighttime slots, each roughly ninety minutes but scaled to your real sunrise and…

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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 eight 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

1. Day length 720 minutes ÷ 8 = 90 minutes per slot — an equal day, so the arithmetic stays clean.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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 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.

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