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

Pune sits a degree east of Mumbai and half a degree south, which puts its solar noon 3.9 minutes earlier — 34.6 minutes behind the clock rather than 38.5. Its slots run 1h 23m to 1h 39m, a swing of only 2h 14m across the year, and the whole grid opens a few minutes before Mumbai’s on every date.

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In Pune, Maharashtra, a daylight choghadiya runs 1h 23m to 1h 39m, sunrise moves 1h 13m across the year, and solar noon sits 34.6 minutes behind the clock. All three computed at 18.52°N 73.86°E.

The Mumbai–Pune corridor is the most travelled short intercity route in western India, and it is a clean natural experiment: two cities close enough that people move between them daily, far enough apart that their tables genuinely differ.

Pune’s numbers are the steadiest of the western cities. A 2h 14m annual day-length swing is smaller than Mumbai’s, smaller than any Gujarat city’s, and beaten only by Bangalore and Chennai in the deep south.

The east-west difference is the one that never goes away. Pune is 0.98 degrees east of Mumbai, so its sun is always 3.9 minutes ahead, in every season, regardless of what the day length is doing.

Four minutes east, and why that is the part that never cancels

On the longest day, Pune’s daylight runs 05:59 to 19:14 and Mumbai’s 06:02 to 19:19. On the shortest, Pune runs 07:03 to 18:03 and Mumbai 07:08 to 18:06. Pune opens earlier and closes earlier on both dates, and on every date in between — that is the longitude effect, and it is constant.

The latitude effect is the one that changes sign. Pune, being slightly south, has marginally shorter summer days and marginally longer winter ones than Mumbai. Across the year those cancel; on any given date they do not.

For a commuter the practical answer is that Pune’s grid is Mumbai’s grid shifted about four minutes earlier, plus or minus a couple of minutes of seasonal wobble. That is inside the noise for most decisions and outside it for a scheduled one — and it is the sort of difference a table labelled "Maharashtra" quietly throws away.

How long one Pune choghadiya is, through the year

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

Pune sits at 18.52°N, and latitude is the only thing that sets slot length. Its daylight runs from 11h 01m on 22 December to 13h 15m on 21 June — a swing of 2h 14m — so one eighth of it moves between 1h 23m and 1h 39m. That is 17 minutes of variation in the same named slot.

Date	Sunrise	Sunset	Daylight	One day slot	One night slot
March equinox (20 March)	06:39	18:45	12h 07m	1h 31m	1h 29m
June solstice (21 June)	05:59	19:14	13h 15m	1h 39m	1h 21m
September equinox (22 September)	06:23	18:31	12h 08m	1h 31m	1h 29m
December solstice (21 December)	07:02	18:03	11h 01m	1h 23m	1h 37m

Across the whole year a Pune 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 Pune's grid sits on the clock, and why

Sunrise in Pune runs from 05:57 on 5 June to 07:10 on 19 January. That is 1h 13m 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 73.86°E, 8.64° west of the 82.5°E timezone meridian, solar noon in Pune falls at about 12:35 rather than 12:00 — 34.6 minutes after the clock, on every date of the year. Against 1h 39m and 1h 23m slots that is roughly a 35-to-42 per cent share of one slot, borrowed from a neighbouring city's table and never repaid.

Measure	Value
Earliest sunrise	05:57 on 5 June
Latest sunrise	07:10 on 19 January
Longest daylight	13h 15m on 21 June
Shortest daylight	11h 01m on 22 December
Annual day-length swing	2h 14m
Solar noon vs clock noon	+34.6 minutes

The full daylight grid for Pune on 21 June

Sunday, sunrise 05:59, sunset 19:14 — the year's longest daylight and therefore its longest slots.

13h 15m of daylight, divided by eight, gives 99 minutes a slot. Sunday is ruled by Sun, so the sequence opens on Udveg at 05:59 and closes on Udveg at 19:14 — the eighth slot repeating the first, as it does on every weekday. Of the eight, 4 are favourable.

Slot	Choghadiya	Lord	Clock time in Pune	Reading
1	Udveg	Sun	05:59 – 07:38	avoid for starts
2	Chal	Venus	07:38 – 09:18	favourable
3	Labh	Mercury	09:18 – 10:57	favourable
4	Amrit	Moon	10:57 – 12:36	favourable
5	Kaal	Saturn	12:36 – 14:16	avoid for starts
6	Shubh	Jupiter	14:16 – 15:55	favourable
7	Rog	Mars	15:55 – 17:34	avoid for starts
8	Udveg	Sun	17:34 – 19:14	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 07:03, sunset 18:03: 11h 01m of daylight, 2h 14m less than 21 June had. Each slot has shrunk to 83 minutes from 99, and sunrise itself has moved 1h 03m later.

Compare the third row of each grid and the whole argument of this page is in one line: Labh ran 09:18–10:57 in 21 June and Chal runs 09:48–11:10 in 22 December. Same city, same position in the grid, no overlap at all.

Slot	Choghadiya	Lord	Clock time in Pune	Reading
1	Rog	Mars	07:03 – 08:25	avoid for starts
2	Udveg	Sun	08:25 – 09:48	avoid for starts
3	Chal	Venus	09:48 – 11:10	favourable
4	Labh	Mercury	11:10 – 12:33	favourable
5	Amrit	Moon	12:33 – 13:56	favourable
6	Kaal	Saturn	13:56 – 15:18	avoid for starts
7	Shubh	Jupiter	15:18 – 16:41	favourable
8	Rog	Mars	16:41 – 18:03	avoid for starts

The night that follows 21 June in Pune

Sunset at 19:14 to the next sunrise is 10h 45m, so each night slot is 81 minutes — 19 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 Pune'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 Pune	Reading
1	Shubh	Jupiter	19:14 – 20:34	favourable
2	Amrit	Moon	20:34 – 21:55	favourable
3	Chal	Venus	21:55 – 23:16	favourable
4	Rog	Mars	23:16 – 00:36	avoid for starts
5	Kaal	Saturn	00:36 – 01:57	avoid for starts
6	Labh	Mercury	01:57 – 03:18	favourable
7	Udveg	Sun	03:18 – 04:38	avoid for starts
8	Shubh	Jupiter	04:38 – 05:59	favourable

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

Pune 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 (this page)	+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	+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	05:59 and 19:14 — 13h 15m of daylight
Divide by eight	795 ÷ 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	05:59 + 2 × 1h 39m = 09:18

The third slot on 21 June in Pune is Labh, running 09:18 to 10:57, and the eighth is Udveg from 17:34. 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

Is Pune’s choghadiya the same as Mumbai’s?

Close, and consistently offset. Pune’s solar noon is 3.9 minutes earlier than Mumbai’s because it lies about a degree further east, so its whole grid opens a few minutes sooner on every date of the year. Slot lengths differ by a minute or two seasonally.

How long is a choghadiya in Pune?

1h 23m to 1h 39m of daylight, and 1h 21m to 1h 37m at night. Pune’s annual day-length swing of 2h 14m is the smallest of the western cities in this cluster, so its slots are among the steadiest.

What time does the first choghadiya start in Pune?

At sunrise, which in Pune runs from 05:57 in early June to 07:10 in mid-January. The first daylight slot always begins at sunrise; which name it carries depends only on the weekday.

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.
• Pune sits on the Deccan plateau at around 560 m. Altitude advances true sunrise very slightly against a sea-level calculation; the effect is under a minute here and is not modelled on this page.

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