Today's Muhurat: Auspicious Timings
Today's Muhurat timings - Abhijit Muhurat, Amrit Kaal, Brahma Muhurat, Rahu Kalam and Choghadiya for 16 September 2026, updated daily.
📍 Computed for New Delhi · Wednesday, 16 September 2026Panchang, Muhurat and Vrat
✅ Favourable Timings
Most auspicious time of the day
Favourable for new beginnings
Auspicious pre-dawn period
⚠️ Inauspicious Timings: Traditionally Avoided
🕐 Choghadiya: Full Day and Night
| # | Period | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ✅ Labh | 6:06 AM – 7:38 AM |
| 2 | ✅ Amrit | 7:38 AM – 9:11 AM |
| 3 | ⚠️ Kaal | 9:11 AM – 10:43 AM |
| 4 | ✅ Shubh | 10:43 AM – 12:16 PM |
| 5 | ⚠️ Rog | 12:16 PM – 1:49 PM |
| 6 | ⚠️ Udveg | 1:49 PM – 3:21 PM |
| 7 | ✅ Char | 3:21 PM – 4:54 PM |
| 8 | ✅ Labh | 4:54 PM – 6:26 PM |
| 9 | ⚠️ Udveg | 6:26 PM – 7:54 PM |
| 10 | ✅ Shubh | 7:54 PM – 9:21 PM |
| 11 | ✅ Amrit | 9:21 PM – 10:49 PM |
| 12 | ✅ Char | 10:49 PM – 12:16 AM |
| 13 | ⚠️ Rog | 12:16 AM – 1:44 AM |
| 14 | ⚠️ Kaal | 1:44 AM – 3:11 AM |
| 15 | ✅ Labh | 3:11 AM – 4:39 AM |
| 16 | ⚠️ Udveg | 4:39 AM – 6:06 AM |
These are the day's Hindu auspicious and inauspicious time windows, computed the same way Panchang is - from the sun and moon's astronomical positions for the date and place shown here. Abhijit Muhurat, Amrit Kaal and Brahma Muhurat are considered favourable; Rahu Kalam, Yama Gandam, Gulika Kalam, Dur Muhurat and Varjyam are traditionally avoided for starting anything important. Choghadiya divides the whole day and night into 16 named periods used the same way. This page does not cover event-specific muhurat (e.g. a specific date for marriage or griha pravesh) - those depend on additional factors beyond a single day's timings.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is today's Rahu Kalam timing?
Rahu Kalam today, 16 September 2026, runs from 12:16 PM – 1:49 PM for New Delhi. It's traditionally avoided for starting anything important - travel, signing documents, a new venture.
What is today's Abhijit Muhurat?
Abhijit Muhurat today runs from 11:51 AM – 12:41 PM, generally considered the most auspicious window of the day and favourable for starting almost any important activity.
Can I travel during Rahu Kalam?
Rahu Kalam is traditionally avoided for starting a journey, though completing one already in progress isn't treated the same way. Many travellers simply avoid booking a departure inside that specific window rather than cancelling travel altogether.
What is the difference between Muhurat and Choghadiya?
Muhurat windows like Rahu Kalam, Abhijit Muhurat and Brahma Muhurat are a handful of specific named periods calculated for the day. Choghadiya divides the entire day and night into sixteen equal named periods instead, giving a finer-grained favourable or unfavourable read across the full 24 hours rather than just a few key windows.
Do these Muhurat timings work for fixing a wedding date?
These are the day's general auspicious and inauspicious windows, not an event-specific Muhurat. A wedding date needs additional factors beyond a single day's timings, matching the couple's birth charts among them, so it's best worked out with a priest rather than read directly off this page. See today's Panchang for the underlying Tithi and Nakshatra a priest would start from.
Does Rahu Kalam fall at the same time every day?
No. Rahu Kalam, Yama Gandam and Gulika Kalam each shift to a different part of the day depending on the weekday and that day's sunrise and sunset, so the specific window changes daily rather than repeating at a fixed clock time.
What is Muhurat in Hindu Astrology?
A Muhurat is a specific auspicious window within a day, typically somewhere between about 20 minutes and just under two hours depending on which Muhurat it is, considered favourable for starting an important activity: a wedding ceremony, a business launch, laying a building's foundation, or moving into a new home. It is derived directly from the day's Panchang, the same Tithi, Nakshatra, Yoga, Vaar and planetary positions used to compute the full daily Hindu almanac, so a Muhurat calculation changes from day to day and place to place rather than repeating on a fixed schedule. Some Muhurat windows are read as favourable (Abhijit Muhurat, Amrit Kaal, Brahma Muhurat), and others are traditionally avoided for starting anything important (Rahu Kalam, Yama Gandam, Gulika Kalam, Varjyam, Dur Muhurat), which is why this page lists both kinds separately rather than a single "good time to start" window.
How Muhurat Timings Are Calculated
Each window is computed from the Sun and Moon's astronomical positions for the exact date and location, the same underlying calculation behind the day's Tithi and Nakshatra. Rahu Kalam, Yama Gandam and Gulika Kalam are each roughly a ninety-minute stretch that shifts to a different part of the day depending on the weekday, worked out by dividing daylight hours into eight equal segments and assigning specific segments to each. Brahma Muhurat is the roughly 96-minute window ending 48 minutes before sunrise, traditionally considered the most favourable time of day for prayer or starting spiritual practice. Choghadiya divides the full day and night into sixteen named periods, eight through daylight and eight through the night, each read as favourable or unfavourable in turn, giving a finer-grained option than the handful of named Muhurat windows alone.
How Muhurat Times Are Used for Important Events
A wedding's core rituals, particularly the exact moment of Saptapadi (the seven vows), are traditionally timed to fall inside a specific favourable Muhurat window identified in advance by a priest, which is why a wedding's ceremony timing is fixed well before the venue booking is finalised, not decided on the day. Travel, moving house and starting a new job are commonly timed to avoid Rahu Kalam specifically, since it's the single most widely recognised inauspicious window in everyday practice, even among people who don't otherwise follow the rest of the Panchang closely. Business inaugurations, a new shop opening its shutters, a factory starting production, are frequently timed to a favourable Muhurat window for the same reason weddings are.
Best Times to Check Muhurat Before Planning an Event
Because Muhurat windows shift daily with the Panchang, checking this page for the specific date being planned, rather than assuming a favourable window repeats weekly, is what actually matters. For a wedding or any major ceremony, priests are typically consulted several months ahead to identify a shortlist of dates with a strong Muhurat, well before a venue is booked. For a same-day decision, avoiding Rahu Kalam for travel or an important meeting is the single most commonly followed rule, and it's listed first among the inauspicious windows on this page for that reason.
Why Muhurat Matters: Weddings, Business & Everyday Planning
Wedding impact: Because a wedding's core rituals are timed to a specific Muhurat window that can run under an hour, the ceremony's schedule for the day is built backward from that window, not forward from a convenient start time, which is why an Indian wedding's core rituals sometimes happen well before dawn or late at night if that's when the favourable Muhurat falls. Missing the window is treated as more than a scheduling inconvenience by many families, which is why wedding planners routinely build in buffer time ahead of the Muhurat rather than risk running late into it.
Business and everyday impact: Shop owners and business founders commonly time a launch, an inauguration or a first sale to a favourable Muhurat, a practice widespread enough that priests and astrologers offer same-week Muhurat lookups specifically for business openings. Away from major events, checking Rahu Kalam before an important flight, a job interview or signing a contract is common enough everyday practice that it shapes ordinary scheduling decisions well beyond weddings and rituals, which is the main reason this page separates favourable and inauspicious windows rather than showing a single combined table.
Psychological impact: Starting something important during a favourable window, or deliberately avoiding an inauspicious one, is as much about confidence as it is about belief in the calculation itself, a founder who opened their shop during a good Muhurat, or a family who avoided Rahu Kalam before a long drive, goes into the day without that specific worry hanging over it. That's a real, if hard-to-measure, reason the practice has stayed widespread well beyond strictly religious households: it removes one source of second-guessing from a day that already has enough to plan around.