Panchang for Saturday, 18 November 2023
The five elements of the day, the sun and the moon, and the windows tradition keeps.
Reckoned for
Every time below is on Ujjaintime. Sunrise moves with your longitude, and so does everything measured from it — a panchang for a city east or west of Ujjain will differ by minutes or more. How to read this page.
Tithi
Shukla Panchamiuntil 09:19
Shukla Shashthiuntil 07:24 on 19 Nov
Nakshatra
Uttara Ashadhauntil 00:06 on 19 Nov
Shravanauntil 22:48 on 19 Nov
Yoga
Gandauntil 02:16 on 19 Nov
Vriddhiuntil 23:27 on 19 Nov
Karana
Balavauntil 09:19
Kaulavauntil 20:22
Taitilauntil 07:24 on 19 Nov
Month & year
Kartika, reckoned amanta — new moon to new moon.
Vikram Samvat 2080 · Shaka Samvat 1945
Vikram Samvat 2080 · Shaka Samvat 1945
Sun and moon at Ujjain
Sunrise06:42
Sunset17:41
Moonrise11:27
Moonset22:18
Traditionally observed windows
These are divisions of the span between sunrise and sunset, kept by long tradition. They are recorded here as what is customarily observed, not as a claim about what a day will bring.
Rahu Kaal
09:27 – 10:49
Traditionally avoided for beginning new work.
Yamaganda
13:34 – 14:56
Traditionally avoided for beginning new work.
Gulika Kaal
06:42 – 08:04
Traditionally avoided for beginning new work.
Abhijit
11:49 – 12:33
The midday muhurta, traditionally favoured.
Choghadiya — day
- Kaal06:42 – 08:04traditionally avoided
- Shubh08:04 – 09:27traditionally favourable
- Rog09:27 – 10:49traditionally avoided
- Udveg10:49 – 12:11traditionally avoided
- Chara12:11 – 13:34traditionally neither
- Labha13:34 – 14:56traditionally favourable
- Amrit14:56 – 16:18traditionally favourable
- Kaal16:18 – 17:41traditionally avoided
Choghadiya — night
- Labha17:41 – 19:19traditionally favourable
- Udveg19:19 – 20:56traditionally avoided
- Shubh20:56 – 22:34traditionally favourable
- Amrit22:34 – 00:12 on 19 Novtraditionally favourable
- Chara00:12 on 19 Nov – 01:49 on 19 Novtraditionally neither
- Rog01:49 on 19 Nov – 03:27 on 19 Novtraditionally avoided
- Kaal03:27 on 19 Nov – 05:05 on 19 Novtraditionally avoided
- Labha05:05 on 19 Nov – 06:42 on 19 Novtraditionally favourable
How to read this page
- What is shown
- Each element is the one running at sunrise, with the instant it ends. Where a second begins before the next sunrise it is listed under the first, because an element that ends soon after dawn governs almost none of the day that follows it.
- Which clock
- Every time here is on the clock of the anchor selected above, and every anchor is a city, not a country. Sunrise moves with longitude — roughly four minutes for every degree east or west — and Rahu Kaal, Abhijit and the Choghadiya are all divisions of the span between sunrise and sunset, so they move with it too. A panchang computed for your own town will differ, and by more than a rounding.
- Sources
- Positions of the Sun and Moon come from Astronomy Engine, an open-source implementation of standard astronomical models. Nakshatra and yoga use the Lahiri ayanamsa. A hand-checked table of published panchang days across five regions and several years is re-verified on every build, and the build is refused if any disagree.
- Months and years
- The month is amanta — new moon to new moon. Vikram and Shaka Samvat both turn at Chaitra Shukla Pratipada, in March or April. The Gujarati Vikram Samvat turns at Kartika Shukla Pratipada instead, around Diwali, so if that is your reckoning the year given here will be one ahead of yours for part of the year.
- The traditional windows
- Rahu Kaal, Yamaganda, Gulika, Abhijit and the Choghadiya are recorded here as what is customarily observed. They are divisions of the daylight span by weekday, not astronomical events, and nothing on this page is a claim about what any day will bring.