The direct answer: Shubh Hora Today — Planetary Hours Calculator: Get today's full hora table for your city — twenty-four planetary hours starting at sunrise, each ruled by one of the seven classical planets in unbroken… AskSoma publishes this at asksoma.ai/shubh-hora-today as a free Vedic astrology resource using Swiss Ephemeris calculations and classical Jyotish interpretation — not generic sun-sign copy.
Get today's full hora table for your city — twenty-four planetary hours starting at sunrise, each ruled by one of the seven classical planets in unbroken…
The hora system is the oldest idea on this page — old enough that it built the week you live in. Each hour from sunrise carries a planetary ruler, and the rulers rotate in the Chaldean order of decreasing apparent speed: Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon, then round again. Run twenty-four hours of that cycle and the twenty-fifth hora lands on the next day’s namesake — Sun-day’s cycle delivers Moon-day’s first hour — which is precisely why the weekdays sit in their familiar, otherwise-unexplainable order.
Using it is a matching exercise rather than a good/bad checklist. The first hora of the day always belongs to the weekday’s lord; from there, each hour takes the next planet in the cycle, and you pair the task to the ruler. Jupiter’s hour suits finance, ceremony, teaching, and anything meant to grow. Venus governs love, art, and partnership. Mercury rules trade, writing, and accounts. The Moon favours travel, family, and the public. Even the three “heavy” rulers have proper uses — authority to the Sun, courage to Mars, patient structure to Saturn — which is why practitioners call hora a finer instrument than the eight coarse Choghadiya labels.
On timing mechanics: the strict classical method splits daylight into twelve day-horas and night into twelve night-horas, so hora length breathes with the seasons — long summer days mean long day-horas, and vice versa. At Indian latitudes the breathing is gentle, a few minutes either side of sixty; farther from the equator it grows dramatic. This page computes from your city’s real sun times, marks the four benefic-ruled hours as shubh, and shows which planet holds the hour you are in right now.
Sequence from any starting point: after a planet’s hora, the next in line follows the fixed cycle Sun → Venus → Mercury → Moon → Saturn → Jupiter → Mars, repeating.
Weekday lord first, then the fixed seven-planet cycle — twenty-four slots fall out with no table to memorise. The calculator scales the ladder to your real sun times and flags kaal collisions for you.
Computed with Swiss Ephemeris, Lahiri ayanamsa · Content reviewed 2026-07-21
The day begins at sunrise with the hora of the weekday's ruler — Sun on Sunday, Moon on Monday, and so on. Each following hour passes to the next planet in the Chaldean order of decreasing celestial speed: Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon, then back to Saturn. Run that sequence twenty-four times and the twenty-fifth hora lands on the NEXT weekday's lord — which is the elegant reason the seven-day week is ordered the way it is.
The benefic-ruled hours: Jupiter (guru hora) for wisdom, finance, ceremonies, and anything you want to grow; Venus (shukra hora) for love, art, luxury, and partnerships; Mercury (budh hora) for trade, writing, accounts, and communication; and the Moon (chandra hora) for travel, family matters, and the public. Sun, Mars, and Saturn hours are not "bad" — they are specialised: authority work suits the Sun, courage and competition suit Mars, and slow structural labour genuinely suits Saturn.
Only at the equinoxes. The classical method splits daylight into twelve day-horas and the night into twelve night-horas, so in summer your day-horas run long while night-horas shrink, and winter reverses it. At Indian latitudes the drift stays modest — a few minutes either way — but at higher latitudes it becomes dramatic. The calculator uses your city's real sun times, so the boundaries you see are the scaled ones, not clock-hour approximations.
They answer the same question through different lenses: Choghadiya hands you eight coarse good/neutral/avoid labels, while hora gives twenty-four finer slots each carrying a planet's specific flavour. Many practitioners use Choghadiya for quick everyday screening and switch to hora when the task has a clear planetary signature — money to Jupiter, romance to Venus, paperwork to Mercury. When both systems smile on the same stretch, and Rahu Kaal is elsewhere, that is as good as an unelected hour gets.
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Written by Savan Vyas, founder of AskSoma.
The astrology is not written from memory: every chart position, dasha period and panchang timing AskSoma shows is computed with the Swiss Ephemeris on the Lahiri (Chitrapaksha) ayanamsa. How we calculate.