Auspicious Timing
Today's Choghadiya
New Delhi · Thursday, September 10, 2026
Choghadiya divides the daylight and the night each into eight equal periods of roughly ninety minutes, and labels every one of them auspicious or inauspicious. The word joins cho (four) and ghadi (a ghati is about twenty-four minutes) — four ghatis to a period. It is the quickest muhurat system in daily use across North and West India: you do not need a birth chart, only the day of the week and sunrise, so a shopkeeper deciding when to open, a traveller picking a departure, or a family fixing a small ceremony can read it at a glance.
day choghadiya
night choghadiya
The eight periods and what each one means
Every choghadiya carries the name of a planet's disposition and a fixed quality. Amrit (ruled by the Moon) is the most benefic — nectar-like, good for anything. Shubh (Jupiter) is auspicious, favoured for ceremonies, marriage errands and education. Labh (Mercury) means gain and is chosen for business, trade and new accounts. Char (Venus) is movable or neutral, ideal for travel and things that need motion. The three to avoid are Rog (Mars, illness and conflict), Kaal (Saturn, loss and delay) and Udveg (the Sun, anxiety and obstacles); Udveg is often kept for routine government or bureaucratic work where its restless energy does no harm.
So of the eight, four read as usable (Amrit, Shubh, Labh, Char) and three as adverse (Rog, Kaal, Udveg), with the eighth repeating the first of the sequence. Reading the live table above, the green cells are the ones to prefer and the red the ones to work around.
Why the sequence shifts every weekday
The order of the eight periods is not fixed to the clock — it rotates with the weekday, because each day begins with the choghadiya of its ruling planet. Sunday's daytime opens with Udveg (Sun), Monday with Amrit (Moon), Tuesday with Rog (Mars), Wednesday with Labh (Mercury), Thursday with Shubh (Jupiter), Friday with Char (Venus) and Saturday with Kaal (Saturn); from that opening the fixed cyclic order fills the remaining seven slots. The night sequence starts from a different point again, which is why the day (din) and night (raat) tables above rarely line up.
Because the periods are carved between actual sunrise and sunset for your city, their length and boundaries drift through the year and differ from one place to another — which is why the table is computed live for the city you select rather than printed from a fixed chart.
How people use it day to day
Choghadiya answers a narrow, practical question: within today, when is a good hour to begin something small? It is the tool for buying a vehicle, signing a routine deal, setting out on a journey, or starting shop — not for fixing a wedding date or a house-warming, which need a full electional muhurat drawn from tithi, nakshatra and the birth chart. A common rule of thumb: prefer Amrit, Shubh, Labh and Char; avoid Rog, Kaal and Udveg; and if you have no choice, Char and Udveg are the mildest of the difficult ones.
Choghadiya is a traditional day-quality classification for reference, not a personal prediction — it says nothing about a specific individual's chart.
Frequently asked questions
Which choghadiya is best today?
Amrit is the most auspicious, followed by Shubh and Labh; Char is neutral-to-good and suits travel. The live table above marks the good periods in green with their exact start and end times for your city.
What is the difference between din and raat choghadiya?
Din choghadiya divides the time from sunrise to sunset into eight periods; raat choghadiya divides sunset to the next sunrise. The two sequences start from different planets, so the good and bad slots do not mirror each other.
Do I need my birth details for choghadiya?
No. Choghadiya depends only on the weekday and your city's sunrise and sunset, so it is the same for everyone in a given place on a given day.
See also the full Panchang for today — or Rahu Kaal · Shubh Muhurat · Abhijit Muhurat.
Timings use classical Vedic computation (Lahiri ayanamsa, Drik) for the selected city. Auspicious and inauspicious windows are traditional classifications for reference, not personal predictions.