Choghadiya Today in Bengaluru

Today's Choghadiya for Bengaluru — the eight day and eight night periods (Amrit, Shubh, Labh, Char and the inauspicious ones), to pick an auspicious muhurat in your local time.

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How the Choghadiya periods fall in Bengaluru

The day gets eight Choghadiya periods and the night another eight, each an equal division of Bengaluru's sunrise-to-sunset and sunset-to-sunrise spans. Their order rotates with the weekday, and because the two spans are rarely equal, a daytime period here is usually a different length from a night one on the same date.

Bengaluru's clock versus its Sun

All of India keeps one clock — IST, pinned to the 82.5°E meridian — across roughly 28° of longitude. Bengaluru lies at 77.59°E, so the Sun reaches its highest point here about 20 minutes later than the clock suggests. That puts solar noon in Bengaluru roughly 1 minute earlier than in New Delhi; sunrise moves with it, though latitude shifts sunrise a little further either way as the seasons turn. Rahu Kaal, Choghadiya and every muhurat are carved out of local sunrise and sunset, so a table copied from a Delhi panchang is wrong for Bengaluru by about that much.

Why the lengths change through the year

Bengaluru sits at 12.97°N. Daylight here runs to about 12h 46m at its longest and about 11h 14m at its shortest — a swing of roughly 1h 32m across the year. Because the eight daytime Choghadiya periods are made by dividing sunrise-to-sunset into eight equal parts, each period in Bengaluru is noticeably longer in summer than in winter. Rahu Kaal, being one-eighth of the day, moves the same way.

How these timings are computed

Timings are computed for 12.97°N, 77.59°E (Asia/Kolkata) with the Swiss Ephemeris: the day's exact sunrise and sunset first, then Rahu Kaal, the Choghadiya periods and the panchang limbs derived from them. Nothing is approximated from a nearby larger city.

Can I use a Delhi panchang for Bengaluru?

Not if you want it exact. The solar day in Bengaluru runs about 1 minute earlier than in New Delhi, and every Rahu Kaal and Choghadiya boundary shifts with it. For casual purposes the gap is small; for choosing a muhurat it is large enough to matter.

Why does Rahu Kaal in Bengaluru change every day?

Because it is not a fixed clock time — it is one-eighth of the daylight span, measured from that morning's sunrise. Daylight in Bengaluru varies by about 1h 32m across the year, so both the start time and the length of Rahu Kaal move with it.

Do these timings depend on my birth chart?

No. Rahu Kaal, Choghadiya and the panchang are properties of place and date — identical for everyone in Bengaluru on a given day. A muhurat chosen against your own chart is a separate question and needs your birth details.