Abhijit Muhurat
Abhijit muhurat today — the midday window
The eighth of the fifteen muhurtasA chosen slice of time for starting something: a wedding, a shop, a journey. Picking one is as much about avoiding the bad windows as finding a good hour. the daylight is cut into, centred on local noon. The general-purpose good hour: if nothing better can be found for a journey, a purchase or a new venture, it is started at AbhijitA short window either side of local noon, counted good for starting almost anything. It is not observed on a Wednesday..
· Shukravara · Chandigarh
Computed from Chandigarh's own sunrise and sunset. Local noon is their midpoint, not 12:00 on the clock, and across a zone as wide as India the two can differ by half an hour.
Abhijit Muhurat in Chandigarh on Friday 28 August is from 11:58 am to 12:49 pm.
Abhijit Muhurta
11:58 am – 12:49 pm
- Duration
- 52 minutes
- Sunrise
- 05:56 am
- Sunset
- 06:51 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 54 minutes
The midday window. Good for starting almost anything.
The same day
The other muhurtas of the day
The named windows of the same day, from the same sunrise and sunset. The favourable ones first, then the four to keep clear of.
Favourable
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Brahma Muhurta
The 48 minutes before dawn. Traditionally the best time to study or pray.
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Vijaya Muhurta
The 11th muhurta of the day, early afternoon. Favoured for anything that must win through opposition.
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Godhuli Bela
Twelve minutes either side of sunset. Auspicious in its own right, for marriage and griha pravesh.
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Nishita Kaal
One muhurta centred on true local midnight, the midpoint of sunset and the next sunrise. The window for Shivaratri puja.
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Amrit Kalam
The nectar part of the nakshatra, the mirror of Varjyam. One of the most favourable windows of the day.
Avoid
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Rahu Kaal
Do not start anything new in this window: no travel, no purchase, no signing. Work already under way is fine to continue.
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Yamaganda Kaal
Avoided for travel and for anything to do with health.
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Gulika Kaal
Avoided for lending, borrowing and long-term commitments.
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Dur Muhurtam
The weekday’s inauspicious muhurta, one fifteenth of the daylight. Avoided for new beginnings, like Rahu Kaal.
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Varjyam
The discarded part of the nakshatra, about an hour and 36 minutes. Left alone for travel and new starts.
Abhijit Muhurat
What Abhijit muhurat actually is
Sunrise to sunset is divided into fifteen equal muhurtas. On a twelve-hour day each is 48 minutes; in June in Delhi it is closer to 56, in December closer to 41. Abhijit is the eighth of the fifteen, which puts it exactly in the middle of the day, from one thirtieth of the daylight before local noon to one thirtieth after it.
The name means "victorious", and the reputation follows from the position. At noon the Sun is at its highest and the day is held to be at its strongest, so the window is said to override most minor blemishes of the tithiThe lunar day. It runs from one step of the Moon's phase to the next, so it rarely begins at sunrise. Fasts and festivals are fixed by it. or the nakshatraThe star the Moon is passing through. There are twenty-seven, and yours decides your naming letter and much of a matching score.. It does not override Rahu KaalAbout ninety minutes each day in which nothing new is started: no travel, no purchase, no signing. Work already under way is fine to continue., and on a day where the two overlap the printed panchangsThe day's five limbs read together: vara, tithi, nakshatra, yoga and karana. Everything an almanac says about a date starts here. side with Rahu Kaal.
Its usual uses are the everyday ones: leaving on a journey, making a purchase, opening a shop or a bank account, sending an application, beginning a course. It is not the window for a wedding or a griha pravesh, which have their own reckonings and are placed by a lagnaThe sign rising in the east at your birth, and the first house of the chart. It changes about every two hours, which is why the birth time matters. rather than by the hour.
Dur Muhurtam, by weekday
Dur Muhurtam, by weekday
Each weekday also carries one inauspicious daylight muhurta, counted from sunrise on the same fifteen-part scale. The table below is the one the engine reads, so it cannot drift from the times printed above.
| Day | Dur Muhurtam |
|---|---|
| Sunday | 14th muhurta |
| Monday | 9th muhurta |
| Tuesday | 4th muhurta |
| Wednesday | 8th muhurta |
| Thursday | 6th muhurta |
| Friday | 4th muhurta |
| Saturday | 1st muhurta |
What it is not
What it is not
- It is not 12:00 to 12:48. That is the figure a national table prints and it is right for one meridian on two days of the year. Everywhere else it is the midpoint of that place’s own sunrise and sunset.
- It is not a licence to ignore Rahu Kaal. Where the two overlap, and on a Sunday afternoon in some cities they nearly do, Rahu Kaal wins.
- It is not observed on a Wednesday. The engine still computes the window that day, and the page still says so, but it is not listed as auspicious and Vijaya is offered in its place.
Questions
Questions
What time is Abhijit muhurat today?
It sits either side of local noon, which is the midpoint of your city’s sunrise and sunset. The exact window for the city above is stated at the top of the page, and every other city is one tap away below.
How long is Abhijit muhurat?
One fifteenth of the daylight, so about 48 minutes on an equinox day, longer in summer and shorter in winter. The duration printed above is computed from today’s actual sunrise and sunset.
Why is there no Abhijit muhurat on Wednesday?
The classical texts exclude BudhavaraWednesday, Mercury's day. Good for study, writing, trade and short travel, and it is the one weekday Abhijit muhurta is not observed on. from Abhijit, and every printed panchang follows them. The usual substitute is Vijaya muhurat, the eleventh muhurta of the day, which this page shows on Wednesdays.
Is Abhijit muhurat good for marriage?
Not on its own. It is the window for everyday beginnings. A wedding is placed by lagna and tithi, and a family that needs a self-standing muhurta reaches for godhuli belaTwelve minutes either side of sunset, the hour the cattle came home. It counts as a self-proven muhurta for weddings and for moving into a new house. at sunset rather than Abhijit at noon.
Abhijit muhurat in your city
Abhijit muhurat in your city
Local noon is a different minute in every city. Pick yours.
- Agra
- Ahmedabad
- Amritsar
- Bengaluru
- Bhopal
- Bhubaneswar
- Chandigarh
- Chennai
- Coimbatore
- Dehradun
- Delhi
- Guwahati
- Haridwar
- Hyderabad
- Indore
- Jaipur
- Jammu
- Jodhpur
- Kanpur
- Kochi
- Kolkata
- Lucknow
- Ludhiana
- Madurai
- Mumbai
- Nagpur
- Patna
- Prayagraj
- Pune
- Raipur
- Ranchi
- Srinagar
- Surat
- Thiruvananthapuram
- Tirupati
- Udaipur
- Ujjain
- Varanasi
- Vijayawada
- Visakhapatnam
The rest of the day
The rest of the day
Brahma muhurtaThe forty-eight minutes before first light. Tradition keeps it for study, prayer and anything that needs a quiet head. opens the day 96 minutes before dawn, and the full panchang carries every window on one page.