Rahu Kaal Today

Take the time from sunrise to sunset and cut it into eight equal parts. One of those parts belongs to Rahu, and which one depends on the day of the week. Because sunrise and sunset shift with your latitude and the season, Rahu Kaal in Chennai is not Rahu Kaal in Delhi, and today's is not yesterday's.

The order runs: Sunday the eighth part, Monday the second, Tuesday the seventh, Wednesday the fifth, Thursday the sixth, Friday the fourth, Saturday the third. That is the whole rule, and it is why any site giving you one fixed timing for the entire country is guessing.

Avoid first-time and one-time things: registering a business, signing a sale deed, the first payment on a new deal, leaving on a journey you have not made before, a formal proposal. The traditional logic is that Rahu clouds judgement, so the start carries confusion the rest of the work has to absorb.

What is fine: continuing work already underway, medical treatment and emergencies, daily worship, travel you do every day, and anything you cannot reschedule. Nobody in classical texts asks you to sit still for ninety minutes.

If you must start something inside the window, the usual practical advice is to begin a few minutes before it opens, so the beginning itself sits outside.

Yamaganda Kaal and Gulika Kaal are two more eighth-parts of the day with their own weekday order. Gulika has an interesting reputation: whatever begins in it tends to repeat, which is why it is avoided for one-time decisions and sometimes deliberately chosen for habits you want to stick.

Abhijit Muhurat is the opposite: the eighth of fifteen equal parts of the day, centred on local noon, and the most dependable good window of an ordinary day. It is traditionally skipped on Wednesday. When your day has no clean muhurat, Abhijit is the fallback most astrologers reach for.

A wall calendar prints one timing for a whole state. This page computes sunrise and sunset for the city you pick, then divides that specific day, so the numbers move as they should through the year. Times are accurate to about a minute, which is finer than any muhurat rule needs.

For a decision that actually matters, a day window is only half the picture. The other half is your own chart: which Mahadasha and Antardasha you are running, and whether the transit supports the thing you are starting. That part needs your birth details, and it is behind sign-in.

Take a Tuesday in Delhi with sunrise at 6:15 am and sunset at 6:00 pm, a daylight span of 705 minutes. Split that into eight equal parts of about 88 minutes each. Tuesday's Rahu Kaal is the seventh of those eight parts, so you count six full parts past sunrise before it begins: 6 x 88 minutes is 528 minutes, roughly 8 hours 49 minutes after sunrise, which lands at about 3:04 pm. Add the 88-minute slice and it ends near 4:32 pm.

Compare that with a Saturday, where Rahu Kaal is the third segment and falls in the late morning instead. Same city, same method, different weekday, different window. This is exactly why the table above recalculates for every date and city instead of quoting one fixed time.

This page is maintained by the AstroFuture AI team at BEONE DEAL. Sunrise, sunset and the eight-part day division run on the same Swiss Ephemeris astronomical engine used for the birth chart tool elsewhere on the site, not a lookup table copied from a printed panchang. When we add a new city or adjust a calculation, we check the output against established panchang software before it ships.

It tells you the window, not whether your specific plan will go well. Rahu Kaal is one layer among several, your Dasha, the Moon's transit through your houses and the Choghadiya can all point in different directions on the same day. Treat this as one useful input for timing, not a verdict, and do not use it in place of medical or legal judgement for anything urgent.