Nagpur, Maharashtra, India · +05:30
Wednesday, September 30, 2026
Rahu kaal90 min
12:03 to 13:33
An eighth of the day, 12:03 to 13:33, on a day running 06:04 to 18:02.
Computed for Nagpur, Maharashtra, India on 2026-09-30. This page stays on Nagpur — the panchang at the top of the site follows wherever you are.
The rest of Nagpur’s day
Also exact for
Sunrise and sunset here are the same, to within two minutes, in Kāmthi — so every time on this page is theirs too.
Elsewhere today
Rahu kaal
An eighth of the day, so it moves with sunrise. Same date, eight cities.
1h 3m between Kolkata and Ahmedabad, on the same date. That gap is sunrise, and it is why a table cannot answer this.
The day, marked
Rahu kaalthe eighth ruled by Rahu
12:03 – 13:33
Gulika kaalthe eighth ruled by Gulika
10:33 – 12:03
Yamagandathe eighth ruled by Yama
07:34 – 09:04
Abhijit muhuratsuppressed on Wednesday by the convention in use
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What an eighth of the day actually is
Take sunrise, take sunset, and cut the interval between them into eight equal parts. One of those eight is rahu kaal, and which one depends only on the weekday — Sunday the eighth, Monday the second, Tuesday the seventh, Wednesday the fifth, Thursday the sixth, Friday the fourth, Saturday the third.
Two consequences follow, and both are worth stating because they are usually left implicit. First, an eighth is not ninety minutes: it is an eighth of your day, so it runs about 95 minutes in a Delhi June and about 80 in a Delhi December, and longer or shorter again the further from the equator you are. Second, it depends entirely on sunrise — which means an app that is two minutes out on sunrise is two minutes out on this, and on gulika, and on yamaganda, and on every choghadiya and every hora.
That is why this surface computes sunrise by scanning the Sun’s real altitude against a refracted horizon rather than reading it from a table, and why it tells you which definition of sunrise it used. The method →
Gulika, yamaganda and abhijit
Gulika kaal and yamaganda are the same construction with different tables — a different eighth for each weekday. Abhijit is the opposite kind of thing: the eighth of fifteen equal muhurtas of the day, which puts it centred on local apparent noon rather than on clock noon, and it is the one window on the page that is considered favourable. Some traditions suppress it on Wednesday; this build declares which way it went rather than silently choosing.
Method · drik siddhanta · sunrise by the Sun's upper limb, with refraction · ayanamsa Lahiri (Chitrapaksha), 23°15′ at 1956-03-21 · amanta and purnimanta months both named
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