Auspicious Timing
Brahma Muhurta Today
New Delhi · Sunday, October 25, 2026
Brahma Muhurta is the quiet stretch before dawn that Indian tradition reserves for waking, prayer, meditation and study. It is not a fixed hour such as four in the morning: it is the fourteenth of the fifteen muhurtas into which the night is divided, so it opens two night-muhurtas before sunrise and closes one night-muhurta before it. Because it is anchored to the sunrise of your own city and to the length of tonight, its clock time moves through the year — the window below is worked out for today.
Brahma Muhurta today in Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai and other cities
| City | Brahma Muhurta | Sunrise |
|---|---|---|
| New Delhi | 04:49 – 05:40 | 06:32 |
| Mumbai | 04:59 – 05:49 | 06:40 |
| Bengaluru | 04:36 – 05:25 | 06:15 |
| Chennai | 04:25 – 05:15 | 06:04 |
| Kolkata | 03:59 – 04:50 | 05:41 |
| Hyderabad | 04:35 – 05:25 | 06:15 |
| Pune | 04:55 – 05:45 | 06:35 |
| Ahmedabad | 05:03 – 05:54 | 06:45 |
| Jaipur | 04:53 – 05:44 | 06:36 |
| Lucknow | 04:32 – 05:24 | 06:15 |
Brahma Muhurta ends one night-muhurta before each city's own sunrise (IST), so it shifts from place to place. Choose your city at the top of the page for its exact window.
For the rest of the day, the midday window is Abhijit Muhurat and the stretch to avoid is today's Rahu Kaal; check that the two do not overlap.
How the pre-dawn window is reckoned
The classical day of thirty muhurtas gives fifteen to the daylight and fifteen to the night. A night muhurta is one fifteenth of the time from sunset to the next sunrise — close to forty-eight minutes around the equinoxes, longer in winter when nights are long and shorter in midsummer. Counting back from sunrise, the last night muhurta is skipped and the one before it is Brahma's; that is why the window ends a little under an hour before the sun comes up rather than at sunrise itself.
The popular rule of thumb, ninety-six minutes before sunrise for forty-eight minutes, is the same idea with a twelve-hour night assumed. On a long December night in North India the real window starts earlier and lasts longer than that rule suggests, which is why the start and end shown here are computed rather than copied from a table.
What the texts say about rising early
Two well-known verses carry the practice. The Manusmriti (4.92) tells the householder to wake in Brahma Muhurta and reflect on dharma and artha — right conduct and livelihood. The Ayurvedic classic Ashtanga Hridaya opens its chapter on the daily routine (Sutrasthana 2.1) with the advice that a healthy person should rise in Brahma Muhurta to protect a long life.
The hour is named after Brahma, the creator, and in many temples it is when the deity is woken and the first worship of the day begins. Students of the Vedas were traditionally set to memorise and revise at this time, on the reasoning that the mind is rested and the household still.
Using it well
Brahma Muhurta is a time for inward work — japa, meditation, pranayama, reading scripture, revising lessons or simply a calm start before the day's demands. It is not a general-purpose muhurat for worldly beginnings: a wedding, a house-warming or the signing of a deal is still fixed by a full election that weighs tithi, nakshatra and the weekday. If waking that early is hard, many teachers suggest moving the alarm back a few minutes a week rather than forcing the full shift at once.
Like every timing on this site, it is shown as a traditional classification, offered for reference rather than as a forecast for any one person.
Frequently asked questions
What time is Brahma Muhurta today?
The start and end for your city are shown at the top of this page. It closes one night-muhurta before local sunrise and lasts one night-muhurta, so it is usually a window of about 45 to 60 minutes ending a little under an hour before dawn.
Is Brahma Muhurta always from 4:00 to 4:48 am?
No. That is a rough version for a sunrise near 6 am and a twelve-hour night. The real window follows each day's sunrise and the length of the night, so it shifts through the year and from city to city.
What is Brahma Muhurta good for?
Traditionally for waking, prayer, meditation, breathing practice and study. Major worldly events such as a wedding or a griha pravesh are timed with a separate muhurat election instead.
See also the full Panchang for today — or Choghadiya · Rahu Kaal · Shubh Muhurat · Abhijit Muhurat · Yamagandam · Gulika Kalam · Durmuhurtham · Hora Timings · Gowri Panchangam.
Timings use classical Vedic computation (Lahiri ayanamsa, Drik) for the selected city. Auspicious and inauspicious windows are traditional classifications for reference, not personal predictions.