Varanasi panchang, 4 June 2026
Sunrise 05:08 Sunset 18:44 Moonrise 22:09 Jyeshtha (adhika) month
Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India · 25.32°, 83.01° · Asia/Kolkata (UTC+05:30)
Sunrise to sunrise
- Bad
- Good
- A limb changes
Day
05:08 to 18:44- Shubh
- Rog
- Udveg
- Char
- Labh
- Amrit
- Kaal
- Shubh
- Yamaganda 05:08 – 06:50
- Gulika Kalam 08:32 – 10:14
- Durmuhurta 09:40 – 10:34
- Abhijit Muhurta 11:29 – 12:23
- Rahu Kalam 13:38 – 15:20
- Durmuhurta 15:06 – 16:01
- 07:41 Moon enters Capricorn
- 09:03 Yoga becomes Brahma
- 10:28 Karana becomes Balava
Night
18:44 to 05:08 next day- Amrit
- Char
- Rog
- Kaal
- Labh
- Udveg
- Shubh
- Amrit
- Pradosha 18:44 – 20:49
- Brahma Muhurta 03:44 – 04:26 Current practice: the 14th night muhurta
- 23:30 Tithi becomes Krishna Panchami
- 23:30 Karana becomes Kaulava
- 03:41 next day Nakshatra becomes Shravana
The five limbs
- Tithi Krishna Chaturthi until 23:30
- Nakshatra Uttara Ashadha until 03:41 next day · lord Sun
- Yoga Shukla until 09:03
- Karana Bava until 10:28, then Balava
- Vara Thursday lord Jupiter
- Moon and Sun Sagittarius Moon Sun in Taurus
- 07:41 Moon enters Capricorn
- 09:03 Yoga becomes Brahma
- 10:28 Karana becomes Balava
- 23:30 Tithi becomes Krishna Panchami
- 23:30 Karana becomes Kaulava
- 03:41 next day Nakshatra becomes Shravana
Times to avoid
- Yamaganda Kālaprakāśikā pp. 175–176 05:08 – 06:50
- Gulika Kalam Kālaprakāśikā pp. 175–176 08:32 – 10:14
- Durmuhurta Muhūrta-cintāmaṇi 6.52, p. 275 09:40 – 10:34
- Rahu Kalam Kālaprakāśikā pp. 175–176 13:38 – 15:20
- Durmuhurta Muhūrta-cintāmaṇi 6.52, p. 275 15:06 – 16:01
- Mahapata (equal declinations) Vaidhriti, exact at 21:37 Muhūrta-cintāmaṇi 1.34, commentary p. 30 20:31 – 22:43
Good windows
- Brahma Muhurta Current practice: the 14th of the night's 15 muhurtas, ending one muhurta before sunrise. Manusmṛti 4.92 names the brahma muhurta; Kullūka (1909, p. 149) reads it as the last yama of the night, and Govindarāja, as Kullūka reports him, as its last muhurta. 03:45 – 04:26
- Abhijit Muhurta Muhūrta-cintāmaṇi 6.50, p. 274 (the 8th day muhurta); 6.52, p. 275 (not on Wednesday) 11:29 – 12:23
- Pradosha Muhūrta-cintāmaṇi 3.6 commentary, p. 125 (Skanda); Nirṇaya-sindhu p. 29; Vīramitrodaya, Samaya-prakāśa, p. 129 18:44 – 20:49
- Siddha Muhūrta-cintāmaṇi 1.4, Kaśyapa in the commentary, p. 12 23:30 – 05:08 next day
Choghadiya
| Shubh | 05:08 – 06:50 | Good |
|---|---|---|
| Rog | 06:50 – 08:32 | Bad |
| Udveg | 08:32 – 10:14 | Bad |
| Char | 10:14 – 11:56 | Neutral |
| Labh | 11:56 – 13:38 | Good |
| Amrit | 13:38 – 15:20 | Good |
| Kaal | 15:20 – 17:02 | Bad |
| Shubh | 17:02 – 18:44 | Good |
| Amrit | 18:44 – 20:02 | Good |
|---|---|---|
| Char | 20:02 – 21:20 | Neutral |
| Rog | 21:20 – 22:38 | Bad |
| Kaal | 22:38 – 23:56 | Bad |
| Labh | 23:56 – 01:14 next day | Good |
| Udveg | 01:14 – 02:32 next day | Bad |
| Shubh | 02:32 – 03:50 next day | Good |
| Amrit | 03:50 – 05:08 next day | Good |
Hora
Seasonal horas: the daytime and the night each in 12 parts. No printed source is cited for this split.
Equal horas: 60 minutes (2.5 ghatis) each, counted from sunrise as Vivāha-vṛndāvana counts them. The 24th runs to the next sunrise. Muhūrta-cintāmaṇi 1.55, p. 49
- 05:08 NowJupiter
- 06:16 NowMars
- 07:24 NowSun
- 08:32 NowVenus
- 09:40 NowMercury
- 10:48 NowMoon
- 11:56 NowSaturn
- 13:04 NowJupiter
- 14:12 NowMars
- 15:20 NowSun
- 16:28 NowVenus
- 17:36 NowMercury
- 18:44 NowMoon
- 19:36 NowSaturn
- 20:28 NowJupiter
- 21:20 NowMars
- 22:12 NowSun
- 23:04 NowVenus
- 23:56 NowMercury
- Next day
- 00:48 NowMoon
- 01:40 NowSaturn
- 02:32 NowJupiter
- 03:24 NowMars
- 04:16 NowSun
- 05:08 NowJupiter
- 06:08 NowMars
- 07:08 NowSun
- 08:08 NowVenus
- 09:08 NowMercury
- 10:08 NowMoon
- 11:08 NowSaturn
- 12:08 NowJupiter
- 13:08 NowMars
- 14:08 NowSun
- 15:08 NowVenus
- 16:08 NowMercury
- 17:08 NowMoon
- 18:08 NowSaturn
- 19:08 NowJupiter
- 20:08 NowMars
- 21:08 NowSun
- 22:08 NowVenus
- 23:08 NowMercury
- Next day
- 00:08 NowMoon
- 01:08 NowSaturn
- 02:08 NowJupiter
- 03:08 NowMars
- 04:08 NowSun
Rising sign (lagna)
- 03:45 – 03:58 Aries
- 03:58 – 05:55 Taurus
- 05:55 – 08:09 Gemini
- 08:09 – 10:27 Cancer
- 10:27 – 12:41 Leo
- 12:41 – 14:54 Virgo
- 14:54 – 17:10 Libra
- 17:10 – 19:27 Scorpio
- 19:27 – 21:32 Sagittarius
- 21:32 – 23:17 Capricorn
- 23:17 – 00:48 next day Aquarius
- 00:48 – 02:16 next day Pisces
- 02:16 – 03:54 next day Aries
- 03:54 – 05:08 next day Taurus
The Vedic day runs from sunrise to the next sunrise.
Lahiri ayanamsa · sunrise and sunset at the centre of the Sun’s disc, with refraction, at sea level · Swiss Ephemeris · times in IST (UTC+5:30) · Method