Quick answers to the questions people most often ask about Choghadiya and choosing an auspicious muhurat. Choghadiya (चौघड़िया) is also written Chaughadiya, Chogadia, Chaukadiya, Chokdiya or Dugadiya.
Choghadiya is a Vedic method of dividing the day and night into short time windows — eight from sunrise to sunset and eight more from sunset to the next sunrise. Each window is marked auspicious, neutral, or inauspicious, and people consult it before starting important tasks.
Muhurat means an auspicious time to begin something; it is also a unit of time of two ghadi, about 48 minutes. Choghadiya means “four ghadi” and is a quick way to find a good muhurat without consulting an astrologer: it splits the day and the night into eight parts each and labels every part good, neutral or bad. For big events such as a wedding or griha pravesh, families usually take a full Panchang muhurat, which also looks at tithi and nakshatra.
One Choghadiya is the length of the day (sunrise to sunset) or of the night (sunset to the next sunrise) divided by eight — about 1½ hours. Because sunrise and sunset change through the year and from city to city, day slots are longer in summer, night slots are longer in winter, and the times differ for every city.
Amrit, Shubh and Labh are considered auspicious (good). Chal is neutral and is favoured for travel. Udveg, Rog and Kaal are inauspicious and are best avoided for important work.
All three are auspicious. Amrit is considered the strongest and suits any work. Shubh is favoured for marriage, religious ceremonies and rituals, and Labh for business, money matters and education. When in doubt, choose Amrit.
Chal (also called Char) is neutral — neither strongly good nor bad. It is ruled by Venus and its name means “moving”, so it is the traditional choice for starting a journey and is fine for routine work. Some panchangs, such as Drik Panchang, count it among the good Choghadiya, but it is usually not chosen for major ceremonies like weddings.
Udveg is one of the three inauspicious Choghadiya, so it is best avoided for new beginnings. It is ruled by the Sun, and by tradition it is considered suitable for government-related work.
Open the Today page. It shows the Choghadiya running now in your city, whether it is good, neutral or bad, when it ends, and what comes next.
The day is split from sunrise to sunset, and the night from sunset to the next sunrise. The two halves follow different name sequences, so the same clock time can be a different Choghadiya by day versus night.
It is based on the exact sunrise and sunset for your location. The daylight period is divided into eight equal slots and the night into eight more. Each slot's name comes from a fixed table tied to the weekday. Because sunrise and sunset shift through the year, the slot times change daily and vary by city.
Chal, which means movement, is traditionally favoured for starting a journey. Shubh and Labh are also good choices for travel.
AuspiciousTime computes sunrise and sunset locally using the NOAA solar algorithm and labels each slot from standard Panchang tables. Its results have been verified against DrikPanchang and match to within a few seconds.
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