Rahu Kaal
Avoid12:11 PM – 1:40 PM IST
≈90 minutes ruled by Rahu — avoid beginning new work, journeys or purchases inside it.
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This calculator computes Rahu Kaal, Yamaganda, Gulika Kaal and the auspicious Abhijit Muhurat for any of 50 cities and any date in the panchang window — every window comes from that place's true sunrise, never a fixed national table, with a live marker showing what is active right now. It opens on 30 September 2026 for Delhi; pick your own city and date below to recompute instantly.
The live marker follows your clock while this page is open — it flags the window that is active right now.
12:11 PM – 1:40 PM IST
≈90 minutes ruled by Rahu — avoid beginning new work, journeys or purchases inside it.
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7:44 AM – 9:13 AM IST
Yama's slot. Classical texts count starts made here as loss-prone; routine work continues.
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10:42 AM – 12:11 PM IST
Gulika's (Saturn's son) slot, avoided for fresh beginnings — some traditions allow repeated tasks.
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11:47 AM – 12:35 PM IST
The day's universally auspicious window around local noon — good for any important start.
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Wednesday, 30 September 2026 in Delhi — sunrise 6:14 AM, sunset 6:07 PM. Also avoided: Durmuhurtam 11:47 AM–12:35 PM. Full day detail on the Delhi panchang. Just want today's reading? See Rahu Kaal today for all 50 cities.
Rahu Kaal is a roughly 90-minute daily slot ruled by Rahu, the shadow planet, which classical muhurta texts mark as inauspicious for beginning anything new — signings, journeys, purchases, ceremonies. It is one-eighth of the daylight hours, and which eighth depends on the weekday, so it never falls at the same clock time two days in a row.
No. Each weekday owns a different eighth of the day (Monday's is the 2nd, Saturday's the 3rd, and so on), and the day itself is measured from local sunrise to sunset — so the clock time shifts with both the weekday and the season. Bela computes it from your city's actual sunrise, not a fixed table.
New beginnings: signing contracts, starting a journey, registering property, first entry into a home, launching a product. Work already in progress simply continues. If a start cannot be moved, the day's Abhijit Muhurat or an Amrit/Shubha choghadiya is the classical counterweight — Bela's choghadiya tool shows them all.
Because it is anchored to sunrise and sunset, which move with longitude and latitude. Mumbai's Rahu Kaal starts several minutes after Delhi's; Dubai's and New York's differ by hours. The tool computes each of the 50 cities from its own coordinates — never a national average.
The app watches the windows for you: it pings you before Abhijit Muhurat and the good choghadiyas open, warns you before Rahu Kaal starts, and screens every window against your own birth star (Tara Bala) — so you never check a table again.