🪷 Choghadiya · Washington DC, USA · 2026-01-20

8 day + 8 night choghadiyas · classical 7-quality cycle · sunrise-anchored

कालः सृष्टिर्लय-कर्ता
Choghadiya divides the day-night cycle into 16 time-windows · each carrying one of 7 qualities (Amṛta · Śubha · Lābha = auspicious · Cala = neutral · Roga · Kāla · Udvega = inauspicious). Used for travel · purchase · meeting decisions.

Washington DC, USA Choghaḍiyā Source-Anchor Spine

This page-local timing spine keeps daily action windows tied to the same city-day substrate, companion timing routes, machine JSON envelopes, universal day-axis, jyotiṣa source layer, saṁskāra-muhūrta use case, and the advisory boundary: timing supports dharma, but does not replace guru, family, qualified local guidance, medical, legal, or surrender to Krishna.

Washington DC, USA city routepage-local city darśana, LMT, closed-science sun-times, and local kṣetra orientation/citiesmaster Bhūmi city-access source spine and full Earth search doorwaycity search APImachine doorway for resolving the same city slug from the shipped city corpusWashington DC, USA city-daycity-localized pañchāṅga descent for this date and kṣetraWashington DC, USA muhūrtaRāhu-kālam, Yamagaṇḍa, Gulika, Abhijit, Brahma, and day-muhūrta companion routeWashington DC, USA choghaḍiyāday and night choghaḍiyā companion route for local action windowsWashington DC, USA hora24-hour graha-rulership companion route for local hora selectionWashington DC, USA complete pañchāṅgacomplete localized pañchāṅga route with muhūrta, choghaḍiyā, multi-ayanāṁśa, and local source spineuniversal day spineatomic day-axis before localization into this citymuhūrta JSON envelopemachine-readable local Rāhu-kālam, Gulika, Abhijit, and day-muhūrta datachoghaḍiyā JSON envelopemachine-readable day and night choghaḍiyā windows for this city and datehora JSON envelopemachine-readable active-hora sample for the same local city/day substrate/jyotisha-referencegraha, rāśi, nakshatra, tithi, karaṇa, and time-element source layer/samskara-muhurtarite-timing application that consumes the same city-localized time substrate/calculatorreader-local birth-chart doorway using the same city corpus/tirthassacred-geography spine layered over city and kṣetra accessBG 10.30kālaḥ kalayatām aham · Krishna as Time among reckonersBG 18.66surrender anchor that keeps timing support subordinate to Krishna/binducity as one kṣetra-aperture of the same Bindu-Source/philosophyKrishna = Paramaatma = Parabrahman constitutional foundation

Day Choghadiya (sunrise to sunset)

#ChoghadiyaStartEndQualityLord
1Roga07:2308:37InauspiciousMars
2Udveg08:3709:51InauspiciousSun
3Cara09:5111:05MixedVenus
4Lābha11:0512:19AuspiciousMercury
5Amṛta12:1913:33Very AuspiciousMoon
6Kāla13:3314:47InauspiciousSaturn
7Śubha14:4716:01AuspiciousJupiter
8Roga16:0117:15InauspiciousMars

Night Choghadiya (sunset to next sunrise)

#ChoghadiyaStartEndQualityLord
1Kāla17:1519:01InauspiciousSaturn
2Lābha19:0120:47AuspiciousMercury
3Udveg20:4722:33InauspiciousSun
4Śubha22:3300:19AuspiciousJupiter
5Amṛta00:1902:05Very AuspiciousMoon
6Cara02:0503:50MixedVenus
7Roga03:5005:36InauspiciousMars
8Kāla05:3607:22InauspiciousSaturn

Sunrise: 07:23 · Sunset: 17:15 · Timezone: UTC-5

📚 See Also

📖 References

  1. Muhūrta-Cintāmaṇi · Choghadiya-cycle rules — Classical authority on the 7-quality cycle + vāra-dependent ordering
  2. Bṛhat-Saṁhitā · Varāhamihira (~550 CE) — Foundational treatise on muhūrta-vidyā
Categories: Choghadiya · Muhūrta · Pañchāṅga Time · Washington DC, USA · Daily Reference