Which choghadiya is running right now?

The chart above marks the current window for the shown city with a "now" chip — between sunrise and sunset the window changes roughly every ninety minutes. Open your own city's page for its exact live chart.

Which choghadiya is good for travel?

Chal — the Venus-ruled moving window — is the classical travel choice, and the auspicious three (Amrit, Shubh, Labh) are equally fine for setting out. Avoid beginning a journey in Udveg, Kaal or Rog, and keep the departure clear of Rahu Kalam.

What is night choghadiya?

The same eight-window division applied to the night: from sunset to the next sunrise, with its own rotation of the seven names. Night windows often cross midnight, so a late window belongs to the panchang day that began at the previous sunrise.

Is the choghadiya chart the same in every city?

The sequence of names is the same everywhere for a given weekday, but the clock times are not: each window is one-eighth of the local day or night, so the chart is anchored to your city's own sunrise and sunset.

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Choghadiya Today

Choghadiya divides the day and the night into eight windows each, roughly ninety minutes long. Amrit, Shubh and Labh are auspicious, Chal favours travel, and Udveg, Kaal and Rog are avoided for new starts. Today's live chart for your city is below.

Today's Choghadiya in Mumbai

Showing Mumbai based on your location. The windows follow the local sunrise and sunset — pick your own city from the list further down.

Choghadiya

Day Choghadiya

Sunrise to sunset

Choghadiya	Nature	Time
Amrit	Auspicious	06:11 – 07:50
Kaal	Inauspicious	07:50 – 09:28
Shubh	Auspicious	09:28 – 11:06
Rog	Inauspicious	11:06 – 12:45
Udveg	Inauspicious	12:45 – 14:23
Chal	Neutral	14:23 – 16:02
Labh	Auspicious	16:02 – 17:40
Amrit	Auspicious	17:40 – 19:18

Night Choghadiya

Sunset to next sunrise

Choghadiya	Nature	Time
Chal	Neutral	19:18 – 20:40
Rog	Inauspicious	20:40 – 22:02
Kaal	Inauspicious	22:02 – 23:23
Labh	Auspicious	23:23 – 00:45⁺¹
Udveg	Inauspicious	00:45⁺¹ – 02:07⁺¹
Shubh	Auspicious	02:07⁺¹ – 03:28⁺¹
Amrit	Auspicious	03:28⁺¹ – 04:50⁺¹
Chal	Neutral	04:50⁺¹ – 06:12⁺¹

Full Choghadiya page for Mumbai →

Choghadiya weekday chart — day cycle

Each weekday enters the seven-name cycle at its own point, so the first choghadiya after sunrise fixes the whole day's sequence. Slots shown for a 06:00–18:00 reference day; the eighth slot always repeats the first name, and actual windows stretch or shrink with your city's real sunrise and sunset.

Weekday	06:00	07:30	09:00	10:30	12:00	13:30	15:00	16:30
Sunday	Udveg	Chal	Labh	Amrit	Kaal	Shubh	Rog	Udveg
Monday	Amrit	Kaal	Shubh	Rog	Udveg	Chal	Labh	Amrit
Tuesday	Rog	Udveg	Chal	Labh	Amrit	Kaal	Shubh	Rog
Wednesday	Labh	Amrit	Kaal	Shubh	Rog	Udveg	Chal	Labh
Thursday	Shubh	Rog	Udveg	Chal	Labh	Amrit	Kaal	Shubh
Friday	Chal	Labh	Amrit	Kaal	Shubh	Rog	Udveg	Chal
Saturday	Kaal	Shubh	Rog	Udveg	Chal	Labh	Amrit	Kaal

What is Choghadiya?

Choghadiya (chaughadiya) is the panchang's everyday muhurta system: it slices the daytime — sunrise to sunset — into eight equal windows, and the night — sunset to the next sunrise — into eight more. The name comes from chau (four) and ghadi, the classical unit of about 24 minutes: each window spans roughly four ghadis, which is why the parts run close to ninety minutes on an equinox day. Seven names rotate through the sixteen slots — Udveg, Chal, Labh, Amrit, Kaal, Shubh and Rog — each ruled by a graha whose character the window inherits. It is the workhorse muhurta for daily decisions: no chart needed, just the current window and its nature.

The seven choghadiyas and what each means

Amrit (Moon) is the nectar window, good for everything. Shubh (Jupiter) is broadly auspicious — favoured for ceremonies, worship and marriage-related work. Labh (Mercury) means gain: business, trade, learning and anything meant to profit. Chal (Venus) is the moving window — neutral in itself, and the classical choice for setting out on a journey. Against these stand Udveg (Sun), the window of agitation; Kaal (Saturn), the window of loss, avoided for beginnings though some traditions permit wealth-accumulating work in it; and Rog (Mars), the window of affliction, kept clear of auspicious starts and used classically only for combat and confrontation.

How the day and night sequences work

The rotation is fixed; only the entry point changes with the weekday. The day sequence starts from the weekday lord's own choghadiya — Udveg on Sunday, Amrit on Monday, Rog on Tuesday, Labh on Wednesday, Shubh on Thursday, Chal on Friday, Kaal on Saturday — and then walks the cycle Udveg → Chal → Labh → Amrit → Kaal → Shubh → Rog. The night runs its own rotation with its own weekday entry points. Since seven names fill eight slots, the eighth window always repeats the first — which is why a day that opens in Amrit also closes in it.

Which choghadiya for which work

Match the window to the errand: new beginnings, worship and one-off important acts sit best in Amrit or Shubh; business dealings, purchases and study in Labh; departures and anything involving movement in Chal. If a good window is hours away, tradition does not stall the whole day — routine work continues regardless; the choghadiya is consulted for the moment of starting, not for the duration of doing. And a good choghadiya does not neutralise Rahu Kalam: check both before fixing a time, since an Amrit window can partly overlap the day's Rahu Kalam.

Day choghadiya vs night choghadiya

The day chart runs sunrise to sunset and the night chart from sunset to the next sunrise, so night windows regularly cross midnight into the next civil date — a Saturday night choghadiya can end on Sunday morning. Their lengths differ too: outside the equinoxes the day and night are unequal, so a monsoon day in Mumbai might carry 98-minute day windows and 82-minute night ones. The night sequence is not the day sequence shifted — it is its own rotation, which is why the tables on this site always show both, each with exact local times.

Frequently asked questions

Which choghadiya is running right now?: The chart above marks the current window for the shown city with a "now" chip — between sunrise and sunset the window changes roughly every ninety minutes. Open your own city's page for its exact live chart.
Which choghadiya is good for travel?: Chal — the Venus-ruled moving window — is the classical travel choice, and the auspicious three (Amrit, Shubh, Labh) are equally fine for setting out. Avoid beginning a journey in Udveg, Kaal or Rog, and keep the departure clear of Rahu Kalam.
What is night choghadiya?: The same eight-window division applied to the night: from sunset to the next sunrise, with its own rotation of the seven names. Night windows often cross midnight, so a late window belongs to the panchang day that began at the previous sunrise.
Is the choghadiya chart the same in every city?: The sequence of names is the same everywhere for a given weekday, but the clock times are not: each window is one-eighth of the local day or night, so the chart is anchored to your city's own sunrise and sunset.

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Choghadiya by city

Every choghadiya window is one-eighth of the local day or night, so the same date carries different charts in different cities. Open your city for today's exact aaj ka choghadiya.