Choghadiya in Hyderabad — slot lengths, sunrise anchor and the full grid

Hyderabad sits 4.0 degrees west of the meridian that defines IST, so its solar noon lags the clock by only 16.1 minutes — a third of Rajkot’s 46.8. Its slots run 1h 23m to 1h 39m. It is the closest thing in this cluster to a city where the wall clock and the sun broadly agree, and that makes it the useful reference point.

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In Hyderabad, Telangana, a daylight choghadiya runs 1h 23m to 1h 39m, sunrise moves 1h 09m across the year, and solar noon sits 16.1 minutes behind the clock. All three computed at 17.39°N 78.49°E.

Most discussions of Indian sunrise offsets are abstract because there is no city where the offset is zero. Hyderabad, at 78.49°E, is close enough to make the comparison concrete.

Sixteen minutes is small enough to be nearly invisible in daily life and large enough to matter at the edges of a slot. That is a useful calibration: it tells you what "a small offset" actually looks like, which makes Rajkot’s 46.8 minutes legible as the large number it is.

The Deccan position also gives Hyderabad a middling seasonal swing — 2h 05m, between Bangalore’s 1h 32m and Delhi’s 3h 39m — so it is unremarkable in the other dimension too. That is precisely what makes it the reference.

Sixteen minutes, and what it says about the other ten cities

On the longest day Hyderabad’s daylight runs 05:43 to 18:53. Rajkot’s, on the same date, runs 06:04 to 19:34 — 21 minutes later at sunrise and 41 later at sunset, despite both being on the same clock and having similar day lengths. That entire gap is longitude.

Read the other way, it means Hyderabad’s table is the least distorted of the western and central cities: what a national almanac says for "India" is closer to true here than almost anywhere else in this set except Chennai.

The lesson generalises. When a printed table gives no city, it was computed for somewhere, and that somewhere is usually near the meridian. Using it in Hyderabad costs you a few minutes; using it in Saurashtra costs you a third of a slot.

How long one Hyderabad choghadiya is, through the year

Sunrise, sunset and the resulting eighth at the year's four turning points, computed for 2026.

Hyderabad sits at 17.39°N, and latitude is the only thing that sets slot length. Its daylight runs from 11h 05m on 22 December to 13h 10m on 21 June — a swing of 2h 05m — so one eighth of it moves between 1h 23m and 1h 39m. That is 16 minutes of variation in the same named slot.

Date	Sunrise	Sunset	Daylight	One day slot	One night slot
March equinox (20 March)	06:20	18:27	12h 07m	1h 31m	1h 29m
June solstice (21 June)	05:43	18:53	13h 10m	1h 39m	1h 21m
September equinox (22 September)	06:05	18:13	12h 08m	1h 31m	1h 29m
December solstice (21 December)	06:41	17:47	11h 05m	1h 23m	1h 37m

Across the whole year a Hyderabad daylight slot runs 1h 23m to 1h 39m and a night slot 1h 21m to 1h 37m. At the equinoxes the two are equal — that is what an equinox is.

Where Hyderabad's grid sits on the clock, and why

Sunrise in Hyderabad runs from 05:41 on 4 June to 06:50 on 20 January. That is 1h 09m of movement in the first boundary of the day, and since every later boundary is measured from it, the whole grid travels the same distance.

Longitude adds a second offset that never changes. At 78.49°E, 4.01° west of the 82.5°E timezone meridian, solar noon in Hyderabad falls at about 12:16 rather than 12:00 — 16.1 minutes after the clock, on every date of the year. Against 1h 39m and 1h 23m slots that is roughly a 16-to-19 per cent share of one slot, borrowed from a neighbouring city's table and never repaid.

Measure	Value
Earliest sunrise	05:41 on 4 June
Latest sunrise	06:50 on 20 January
Longest daylight	13h 10m on 21 June
Shortest daylight	11h 05m on 22 December
Annual day-length swing	2h 05m
Solar noon vs clock noon	+16.1 minutes

The full daylight grid for Hyderabad on 21 June

Sunday, sunrise 05:43, sunset 18:53 — the year's longest daylight and therefore its longest slots.

13h 10m of daylight, divided by eight, gives 99 minutes a slot. Sunday is ruled by Sun, so the sequence opens on Udveg at 05:43 and closes on Udveg at 18:53 — the eighth slot repeating the first, as it does on every weekday. Of the eight, 4 are favourable.

Slot	Choghadiya	Lord	Clock time in Hyderabad	Reading
1	Udveg	Sun	05:43 – 07:22	avoid for starts
2	Chal	Venus	07:22 – 09:00	favourable
3	Labh	Mercury	09:00 – 10:39	favourable
4	Amrit	Moon	10:39 – 12:18	favourable
5	Kaal	Saturn	12:18 – 13:57	avoid for starts
6	Shubh	Jupiter	13:57 – 15:35	favourable
7	Rog	Mars	15:35 – 17:14	avoid for starts
8	Udveg	Sun	17:14 – 18:53	avoid for starts

Times computed from NOAA sunrise/sunset at this city's coordinates. Rounded to the minute for display.

The same eight slots on 22 December, compressed

Tuesday, sunrise 06:42, sunset 17:47: 11h 05m of daylight, 2h 05m less than 21 June had. Each slot has shrunk to 83 minutes from 99, and sunrise itself has moved 59m later.

Compare the third row of each grid and the whole argument of this page is in one line: Labh ran 09:00–10:39 in 21 June and Chal runs 09:28–10:51 in 22 December. Same city, same position in the grid, no overlap at all.

Slot	Choghadiya	Lord	Clock time in Hyderabad	Reading
1	Rog	Mars	06:42 – 08:05	avoid for starts
2	Udveg	Sun	08:05 – 09:28	avoid for starts
3	Chal	Venus	09:28 – 10:51	favourable
4	Labh	Mercury	10:51 – 12:15	favourable
5	Amrit	Moon	12:15 – 13:38	favourable
6	Kaal	Saturn	13:38 – 15:01	avoid for starts
7	Shubh	Jupiter	15:01 – 16:24	favourable
8	Rog	Mars	16:24 – 17:47	avoid for starts

The night that follows 21 June in Hyderabad

Sunset at 18:53 to the next sunrise is 10h 50m, so each night slot is 81 minutes — 18 minutes shorter than that same day's daylight slots, because midsummer is when the night is the compressed half. In 22 December the relationship inverts and Hyderabad's night slots reach 1h 37m.

The sequence is not the day sequence continued: it starts on Shubh, ruled by Jupiter, where the daylight had started on Udveg. The slots after midnight still belong to Sunday, because the vedic day turns over at sunrise and not at 00:00.

Slot	Choghadiya	Lord	Clock time in Hyderabad	Reading
1	Shubh	Jupiter	18:53 – 20:14	favourable
2	Amrit	Moon	20:14 – 21:35	favourable
3	Chal	Venus	21:35 – 22:57	favourable
4	Rog	Mars	22:57 – 00:18	avoid for starts
5	Kaal	Saturn	00:18 – 01:39	avoid for starts
6	Labh	Mercury	01:39 – 03:00	favourable
7	Udveg	Sun	03:00 – 04:22	avoid for starts
8	Shubh	Jupiter	04:22 – 05:43	favourable

Times after 24:00 are shown on the following morning's clock; the row still belongs to the previous weekday.

Hyderabad against the other cities in this cluster

The two numbers that make one Indian city’s choghadiya different from another’s: how far its solar noon sits from clock noon, and how much its daylight swings across the year.

City	Solar noon vs clock	Annual day-length swing	Daylight slot range
Ahmedabad	+39.7 min	2h 50m	1h 20m – 1h 42m
Mumbai	+38.5 min	2h 18m	1h 22m – 1h 40m
New Delhi	+21.2 min	3h 39m	1h 17m – 1h 45m
Surat	+38.7 min	2h 35m	1h 21m – 1h 41m
Rajkot	+46.8 min	2h 44m	1h 21m – 1h 41m
Vadodara	+37.3 min	2h 44m	1h 21m – 1h 41m
Pune	+34.6 min	2h 14m	1h 23m – 1h 39m
Bangalore	+19.6 min	1h 32m	1h 25m – 1h 37m
Hyderabad (this page)	+16.1 min	2h 05m	1h 23m – 1h 39m
Jaipur	+26.9 min	3h 23m	1h 18m – 1h 44m
Chennai	+8.9 min	1h 33m	1h 25m – 1h 37m

A positive offset means the sun peaks after the clock says noon. All eleven cities are on one timezone, which is why the column has a 38-minute spread.

Building the grid by hand, from three numbers

Three facts produce the whole table: the weekday, the sunrise and the sunset. Nothing else is needed, and nothing else is used.

Step	Value
Sunrise and sunset	05:43 and 18:53 — 13h 10m of daylight
Divide by eight	790 ÷ 8 = 99 minutes, or 1h 39m per slot
Sunday's opener	Udveg — the choghadiya of Sun, which rules Sunday
Walk the fixed cycle	Udveg → Chal → Labh → Amrit → Kaal → Shubh → Rog → Udveg
Third boundary, as a check	05:43 + 2 × 1h 39m = 09:00

The third slot on 21 June in Hyderabad is Labh, running 09:00 to 10:39, and the eighth is Udveg from 17:14. Every boundary follows from the same division, and the same three facts on any other date give that date's grid.

Use the city's own sunrise, never a neighbour's. The eleven cities in this cluster span 37.9 minutes of solar time on an identical clock.

Frequently asked

How long is a choghadiya in Hyderabad?

1h 23m to 1h 39m of daylight through the year, and 1h 21m to 1h 37m at night. Hyderabad’s day-length swing of 2h 05m is moderate — larger than Bangalore’s 1h 32m and well under Delhi’s 3h 39m.

Why is Hyderabad’s sunrise earlier than Mumbai’s?

Because Hyderabad is 5.6 degrees further east, and each degree is four minutes of solar time. Its solar noon lags clock noon by 16.1 minutes against Mumbai’s 38.5, so its whole choghadiya grid opens about 22 minutes earlier on the same clock.

Can I use a generic Indian choghadiya table in Hyderabad?

With less error than almost anywhere else in this cluster, because Hyderabad is close to the IST meridian. It is still not exact — a generic table has to pick a latitude too, and that is what sets slot length.

What this page can NOT tell you

• These are geometric sunrise and sunset times at the city centre. A tradition that uses the visible sunrise over a real horizon — hills, buildings, haze — will differ, and it is not wrong to.
• The figures are computed for a fixed reference year so this page cannot go stale on the shelf. Sunrise repeats to within seconds across years, so they hold; they are still not a substitute for looking up an actual date.
• Choghadiya carries no personal component. Your chart, dasha and transits are absent from every number here, and two people in this city read exactly the same table.
• The favourable / avoid labels are conventional and they do not predict outcomes. They rank a preference between otherwise equal moments, which is a much smaller claim than the word "auspicious" usually carries.
• Being near the meridian removes the longitude error and none of the others. Slot length still depends on Hyderabad’s own latitude, and the choghadiya convention itself is no more precise here than anywhere.

Choghadiya is a folk-electional convention, not a prediction. It labels slices of the day by tradition; it does not know what you are doing, who you are, or how it turned out. Treat a label as a preference, and never as permission or prohibition.

How AskSoma computes and what we refuse to claim · Engine: NOAA solar position (sunrise/sunset), ±1 minute against published almanac times · Ayanamsa: not used — choghadiya is a sunrise-to-sunset division, with no sidereal component · Content reviewed 2026-08-08