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

Three Gujarat cities, three tables. Vadodara’s solar noon lags the clock by 37.3 minutes — 2.4 minutes ahead of Ahmedabad and 1.4 ahead of Surat — and its slots run 1h 21m to 1h 41m. The differences within one state are small, consistent, and just large enough to matter at the eighth boundary of the day.

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In Vadodara, Gujarat, a daylight choghadiya runs 1h 21m to 1h 41m, sunrise moves 1h 27m across the year, and solar noon sits 37.3 minutes behind the clock. All three computed at 22.31°N 73.18°E.

Vadodara is the middle case in every sense: geographically between Ahmedabad and Surat, and numerically between them too. That makes it the right city on which to ask whether intra-state differences are worth respecting at all.

The honest answer is that a single boundary differs by a couple of minutes and the eighth differs by closer to ten. Whether that matters is a question about your task, not about the astronomy.

What is not in question is the direction. Vadodara is the easternmost of the three, so its sun is always ahead of Ahmedabad’s and Surat’s on the clock — never behind, on any date, by any amount.

Two point four minutes at the first boundary, ten at the last

On 21 June, Vadodara’s daylight runs 05:54 to 19:24; Ahmedabad’s 05:55 to 19:28. The first boundary differs by a minute. But each city divides its own daylight, and Ahmedabad’s is three minutes longer, so the gap widens with every division — by the last daylight boundary it is several minutes, which the 1-minute figure at sunrise gives no hint of.

Against Surat the pattern is the same in the other direction: Vadodara opens 4 minutes earlier on that date and closes about 1 minute later. Being east buys you an earlier grid; being north buys you a longer summer day; the two effects are independent and can partially cancel.

The rule that falls out is simple and applies well beyond Gujarat. For anything within the hour, use the nearest big city’s table without worrying. For anything you would set an alarm for, use your own — the error is not in the sunrise, it is in the eight accumulating divisions after it.

How long one Vadodara choghadiya is, through the year

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

Vadodara sits at 22.31°N, and latitude is the only thing that sets slot length. Its daylight runs from 10h 46m on 22 December to 13h 30m on 21 June — a swing of 2h 44m — so one eighth of it moves between 1h 21m and 1h 41m. That is 20 minutes of variation in the same named slot.

Date	Sunrise	Sunset	Daylight	One day slot	One night slot
March equinox (20 March)	06:41	18:48	12h 07m	1h 31m	1h 29m
June solstice (21 June)	05:54	19:24	13h 30m	1h 41m	1h 19m
September equinox (22 September)	06:26	18:34	12h 08m	1h 31m	1h 29m
December solstice (21 December)	07:12	17:58	10h 46m	1h 21m	1h 39m

Across the whole year a Vadodara daylight slot runs 1h 21m to 1h 41m and a night slot 1h 19m to 1h 39m. At the equinoxes the two are equal — that is what an equinox is.

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

Sunrise in Vadodara runs from 05:53 on 7 June to 07:19 on 15 January. That is 1h 27m 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 73.18°E, 9.32° west of the 82.5°E timezone meridian, solar noon in Vadodara falls at about 12:37 rather than 12:00 — 37.3 minutes after the clock, on every date of the year. Against 1h 41m and 1h 21m slots that is roughly a 37-to-46 per cent share of one slot, borrowed from a neighbouring city's table and never repaid.

Measure	Value
Earliest sunrise	05:53 on 7 June
Latest sunrise	07:19 on 15 January
Longest daylight	13h 30m on 21 June
Shortest daylight	10h 46m on 22 December
Annual day-length swing	2h 44m
Solar noon vs clock noon	+37.3 minutes

The full daylight grid for Vadodara on 21 June

Sunday, sunrise 05:54, sunset 19:24 — the year's longest daylight and therefore its longest slots.

13h 30m of daylight, divided by eight, gives 101 minutes a slot. Sunday is ruled by Sun, so the sequence opens on Udveg at 05:54 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 Vadodara	Reading
1	Udveg	Sun	05:54 – 07:35	avoid for starts
2	Chal	Venus	07:35 – 09:17	favourable
3	Labh	Mercury	09:17 – 10:58	favourable
4	Amrit	Moon	10:58 – 12:39	favourable
5	Kaal	Saturn	12:39 – 14:20	avoid for starts
6	Shubh	Jupiter	14:20 – 16:02	favourable
7	Rog	Mars	16:02 – 17:43	avoid for starts
8	Udveg	Sun	17:43 – 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 07:13, sunset 17:59: 10h 46m of daylight, 2h 44m less than 21 June had. Each slot has shrunk to 81 minutes from 101, and sunrise itself has moved 1h 19m later.

Compare the third row of each grid and the whole argument of this page is in one line: Labh ran 09:17–10:58 in 21 June and Chal runs 09:54–11:15 in 22 December. Same city, same position in the grid, no overlap at all.

Slot	Choghadiya	Lord	Clock time in Vadodara	Reading
1	Rog	Mars	07:13 – 08:33	avoid for starts
2	Udveg	Sun	08:33 – 09:54	avoid for starts
3	Chal	Venus	09:54 – 11:15	favourable
4	Labh	Mercury	11:15 – 12:36	favourable
5	Amrit	Moon	12:36 – 13:56	favourable
6	Kaal	Saturn	13:56 – 15:17	avoid for starts
7	Shubh	Jupiter	15:17 – 16:38	favourable
8	Rog	Mars	16:38 – 17:59	avoid for starts

The night that follows 21 June in Vadodara

Sunset at 19:24 to the next sunrise is 10h 30m, so each night slot is 79 minutes — 22 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 Vadodara's night slots reach 1h 39m.

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 Vadodara	Reading
1	Shubh	Jupiter	19:24 – 20:43	favourable
2	Amrit	Moon	20:43 – 22:02	favourable
3	Chal	Venus	22:02 – 23:20	favourable
4	Rog	Mars	23:20 – 00:39	avoid for starts
5	Kaal	Saturn	00:39 – 01:58	avoid for starts
6	Labh	Mercury	01:58 – 03:17	favourable
7	Udveg	Sun	03:17 – 04:35	avoid for starts
8	Shubh	Jupiter	04:35 – 05:54	favourable

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

Vadodara 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 (this page)	+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	+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	05:54 and 19:24 — 13h 30m of daylight
Divide by eight	810 ÷ 8 = 101 minutes, or 1h 41m 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	05:54 + 2 × 1h 41m = 09:17

The third slot on 21 June in Vadodara is Labh, running 09:17 to 10:58, and the eighth is Udveg from 17:43. 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 Vadodara’s choghadiya the same as Ahmedabad’s?

Nearly, and not exactly. Vadodara is about 0.6 degrees east, so its solar noon is 2.4 minutes earlier and its whole grid opens correspondingly sooner. At sunrise the two tables differ by around a minute; by the last daylight boundary the difference has accumulated to roughly five.

How long is a choghadiya in Vadodara?

1h 21m to 1h 41m through the daylight year, and 1h 19m to 1h 39m at night. The annual day-length swing here is 2h 44m, which sits between Surat’s 2h 35m and Ahmedabad’s 2h 50m — as its latitude does.

Which Gujarat city has the latest choghadiya timings?

Rajkot, comfortably. Its solar noon lags the clock by 46.8 minutes against Vadodara’s 37.3 — a 9.5-minute difference within one state, because Rajkot sits well to the west in Saurashtra.

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.
• The comparisons on this page are between city-centre coordinates. They describe the astronomy accurately and say nothing about which panchang your family follows, which may round or shift these boundaries by convention.

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