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

Jaipur’s daylight compresses to 10h 27m in late December, which squeezes all eight choghadiya into slots of 1h 18m — against 1h 44m in June. That 3h 23m annual swing is the second widest here after Delhi’s, and it means the winter grid is not a shifted version of the summer one, it is a genuinely tighter one.

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In Jaipur, Rajasthan, a daylight choghadiya runs 1h 18m to 1h 44m, sunrise moves 1h 45m across the year, and solar noon sits 26.9 minutes behind the clock. All three computed at 26.91°N 75.79°E.

At 26.91°N Jaipur is high enough for the seasons to bite hard, and it produces the effect people notice without being able to name: in winter the whole day feels like it happens at once, and the choghadiya grid agrees.

Eight favourable-and-unfavourable slots into 10h 27m of December daylight leaves 1h 18m apiece. The same eight into 13h 50m of June daylight leaves 1h 44m. The names have not changed; the room they have has changed by a third.

The night takes the difference, and takes it in the direction people find least convenient: December’s long nights give 1h 42m night slots, so an overnight departure window is at its widest exactly when daylight is at its most compressed.

Eight slots into ten and a half hours

On 22 December, Jaipur’s daylight runs 07:12 to 17:39 — 10h 27m, or 1h 18m a slot. On 21 June it runs 05:34 to 19:24 — 13h 50m, or 1h 44m a slot. Both grids are printed in full further down this page, computed rather than rounded.

Two things changed at once, and that is the part worth holding on to. Every boundary moved, because sunrise moved by 98 minutes; and every slot got 26 minutes shorter, because the daylight it divides shrank by 3h 23m. A reader who corrects only for sunrise — treating the grid as a rigid thing that slides — will be right at the first boundary and progressively wronger at each of the next seven.

This is the single most common way a borrowed or half-remembered choghadiya goes wrong in northern India, and Jaipur is where it goes wrong fastest after Delhi.

How long one Jaipur choghadiya is, through the year

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

Jaipur sits at 26.91°N, and latitude is the only thing that sets slot length. Its daylight runs from 10h 27m on 22 December to 13h 50m on 21 June — a swing of 3h 23m — so one eighth of it moves between 1h 18m and 1h 44m. That is 25 minutes of variation in the same named slot.

Date	Sunrise	Sunset	Daylight	One day slot	One night slot
March equinox (20 March)	06:31	18:38	12h 07m	1h 31m	1h 29m
June solstice (21 June)	05:34	19:24	13h 50m	1h 44m	1h 16m
September equinox (22 September)	06:15	18:24	12h 09m	1h 31m	1h 29m
December solstice (21 December)	07:11	17:38	10h 27m	1h 18m	1h 42m

Across the whole year a Jaipur daylight slot runs 1h 18m to 1h 44m and a night slot 1h 16m to 1h 42m. At the equinoxes the two are equal — that is what an equinox is.

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

Sunrise in Jaipur runs from 05:32 on 9 June to 07:17 on 12 January. That is 1h 45m 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 75.79°E, 6.71° west of the 82.5°E timezone meridian, solar noon in Jaipur falls at about 12:27 rather than 12:00 — 26.9 minutes after the clock, on every date of the year. Against 1h 44m and 1h 18m slots that is roughly a 26-to-34 per cent share of one slot, borrowed from a neighbouring city's table and never repaid.

Measure	Value
Earliest sunrise	05:32 on 9 June
Latest sunrise	07:17 on 12 January
Longest daylight	13h 50m on 21 June
Shortest daylight	10h 27m on 22 December
Annual day-length swing	3h 23m
Solar noon vs clock noon	+26.9 minutes

The full daylight grid for Jaipur on 21 June

Sunday, sunrise 05:34, sunset 19:24 — the year's longest daylight and therefore its longest slots.

13h 50m of daylight, divided by eight, gives 104 minutes a slot. Sunday is ruled by Sun, so the sequence opens on Udveg at 05:34 and closes on Udveg at 19:24 — the eighth slot repeating the first, as it does on every weekday. Of the eight, 4 are favourable.

Slot	Choghadiya	Lord	Clock time in Jaipur	Reading
1	Udveg	Sun	05:34 – 07:17	avoid for starts
2	Chal	Venus	07:17 – 09:01	favourable
3	Labh	Mercury	09:01 – 10:45	favourable
4	Amrit	Moon	10:45 – 12:29	favourable
5	Kaal	Saturn	12:29 – 14:12	avoid for starts
6	Shubh	Jupiter	14:12 – 15:56	favourable
7	Rog	Mars	15:56 – 17:40	avoid for starts
8	Udveg	Sun	17:40 – 19:24	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 07:12, sunset 17:39: 10h 27m of daylight, 3h 23m less than 21 June had. Each slot has shrunk to 78 minutes from 104, and sunrise itself has moved 1h 38m later.

Compare the third row of each grid and the whole argument of this page is in one line: Labh ran 09:01–10:45 in 21 June and Chal runs 09:49–11:07 in 22 December. Same city, same position in the grid, no overlap at all.

Slot	Choghadiya	Lord	Clock time in Jaipur	Reading
1	Rog	Mars	07:12 – 08:30	avoid for starts
2	Udveg	Sun	08:30 – 09:49	avoid for starts
3	Chal	Venus	09:49 – 11:07	favourable
4	Labh	Mercury	11:07 – 12:25	favourable
5	Amrit	Moon	12:25 – 13:44	favourable
6	Kaal	Saturn	13:44 – 15:02	avoid for starts
7	Shubh	Jupiter	15:02 – 16:20	favourable
8	Rog	Mars	16:20 – 17:39	avoid for starts

The night that follows 21 June in Jaipur

Sunset at 19:24 to the next sunrise is 10h 10m, so each night slot is 76 minutes — 28 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 Jaipur's night slots reach 1h 42m.

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 Jaipur	Reading
1	Shubh	Jupiter	19:24 – 20:40	favourable
2	Amrit	Moon	20:40 – 21:56	favourable
3	Chal	Venus	21:56 – 23:12	favourable
4	Rog	Mars	23:12 – 00:29	avoid for starts
5	Kaal	Saturn	00:29 – 01:45	avoid for starts
6	Labh	Mercury	01:45 – 03:01	favourable
7	Udveg	Sun	03:01 – 04:17	avoid for starts
8	Shubh	Jupiter	04:17 – 05:34	favourable

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

Jaipur 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	+16.1 min	2h 05m	1h 23m – 1h 39m
Jaipur (this page)	+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	05:34 and 19:24 — 13h 50m of daylight
Divide by eight	830 ÷ 8 = 104 minutes, or 1h 44m 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	05:34 + 2 × 1h 44m = 09:01

The third slot on 21 June in Jaipur is Labh, running 09:01 to 10:45, and the eighth is Udveg from 17:40. 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 Jaipur?

1h 18m in late December to 1h 44m in late June for daylight, and the reverse at night — 1h 16m to 1h 42m. The 26-minute annual variation in a single slot is second only to Delhi’s 28 among the cities in this cluster.

Why do Jaipur’s winter choghadiya timings feel so compressed?

Because they are. December daylight in Jaipur is 10h 27m against June’s 13h 50m, and all eight daylight slots have to fit inside whichever it is. In winter each is 1h 18m; in summer each is 1h 44m.

Is Jaipur’s choghadiya the same as Delhi’s?

Similar in shape, offset in time. Jaipur is 1.4 degrees west, so its solar noon is 5.7 minutes later than Delhi’s, and slightly further south, so its seasonal swing is 3h 23m against Delhi’s 3h 39m. The two grids run in parallel a few minutes apart.

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.
• Jaipur’s winter figures assume a level horizon. The Aravalli ridges to the city’s west delay visible sunset in parts of the city, and where a tradition uses the visible sunset the night table will start later than computed here.

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