Planetary Hours
Today's Hora Timings
New Delhi · Sunday, October 25, 2026
A hora is a planetary hour. The daylight from sunrise to sunset is divided into twelve equal horas and the night from sunset to the next sunrise into twelve more, and each is ruled in turn by one of the seven visible planets. The tables below give today's twenty-four horas for the selected city, worked out from its actual sunrise and sunset, so a day hora is rarely exactly sixty minutes.
Day horas — sunrise to sunset
| Hora | Lord | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sun | 06:32 – 07:28 |
| 2 | Venus | 07:28 – 08:23 |
| 3 | Mercury | 08:23 – 09:19 |
| 4 | Moon | 09:19 – 10:14 |
| 5 | Saturn | 10:14 – 11:10 |
| 6 | Jupiter | 11:10 – 12:05 |
| 7 | Mars | 12:05 – 13:01 |
| 8 | Sun | 13:01 – 13:56 |
| 9 | Venus | 13:56 – 14:52 |
| 10 | Mercury | 14:52 – 15:47 |
| 11 | Moon | 15:47 – 16:43 |
| 12 | Saturn | 16:43 – 17:38 |
Night horas — sunset to next sunrise
| Hora | Lord | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jupiter | 17:38 – 18:43 |
| 2 | Mars | 18:43 – 19:47 |
| 3 | Sun | 19:47 – 20:52 |
| 4 | Venus | 20:52 – 21:56 |
| 5 | Mercury | 21:56 – 23:01 |
| 6 | Moon | 23:01 – 00:05 (+1d) |
| 7 | Saturn | 00:05 (+1d) – 01:10 (+1d) |
| 8 | Jupiter | 01:10 (+1d) – 02:14 (+1d) |
| 9 | Mars | 02:14 (+1d) – 03:19 (+1d) |
| 10 | Sun | 03:19 (+1d) – 04:23 (+1d) |
| 11 | Venus | 04:23 (+1d) – 05:28 (+1d) |
| 12 | Mercury | 05:28 (+1d) – 06:32 (+1d) |
Each hora is one twelfth of today's daytime or night for the selected city, so it is rarely exactly sixty minutes. Times after midnight are marked (+1d).
For the day's good and bad slots in the North Indian system see today's Choghadiya, and for the segment to avoid see Rahu Kaal.
The order of the planetary hours
The first hora after sunrise belongs to the lord of the weekday: the Sun on Sunday, the Moon on Monday, Mars on Tuesday, Mercury on Wednesday, Jupiter on Thursday, Venus on Friday and Saturn on Saturday. After that the lords follow the classical order of the planets from slowest to fastest — Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon — taken as a circle, so after the Sun come Venus, Mercury, the Moon, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars, and the cycle runs on without a break through the night.
Counting twenty-four horas through that cycle lands the first hora of the next morning on the next weekday's lord, which is the origin of the order of the week itself: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and so on. Varahamihira notes that the word hora is the day-and-night word ahoratra with its first and last syllables dropped.
Traditional uses of each hora
Almanac tradition attaches broad themes to each lord. Sun horas suit dealings with government, seniors and authority; Moon horas travel, meeting the public and matters of the home; Mars horas physical work, sport, land and courage, though not quarrels; Mercury horas study, writing, calls, trade and paperwork; Jupiter horas learning, worship, advice and finance; Venus horas the arts, clothes and jewellery, pleasure and partnerships; Saturn horas labour, repairs, cleaning and patient routine work.
Jupiter, Venus, Mercury and the waxing Moon are generally counted as the gentler horas for starting something, while Saturn, Mars and the Sun are kept for tasks that match their nature. People who follow horas usually combine them with the day's Rahu Kalam rather than using them alone.
Reading the table above
The day table runs from today's sunrise to sunset and the night table from sunset to tomorrow's sunrise; times after midnight carry a (+1d) mark. Pick another city at the top of the page and the horas are recomputed from that city's own sunrise and sunset. In summer the day horas are longer than an hour and the night ones shorter; in winter it is the other way round.
This planetary-hour scheme is unrelated to the D2 hora chart, which splits each zodiac sign into two halves. The hora table is a traditional reference, not a personal forecast.
Frequently asked questions
How are hora timings calculated?
Sunrise to sunset is divided into twelve equal horas and sunset to the next sunrise into twelve more. The first day hora goes to the weekday's lord and the rest follow the order Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars.
Is every hora exactly one hour?
Only when day and night are both twelve hours long. Otherwise day horas and night horas differ in length, which is why the table shows exact start and end times.
Which hora is good for starting work?
Tradition favours the hora whose lord matches the task — Mercury for paperwork and study, Jupiter for learning and money matters, Venus for purchases and the arts — and avoids Rahu Kalam on top of that.
See also the full Panchang for today — or Choghadiya · Rahu Kaal · Shubh Muhurat · Abhijit Muhurat · Brahma Muhurta · Yamagandam · Gulika Kalam · Durmuhurtham · 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.