🪷 पञ्चाङ्ग — Tokyo, Japan

December 16, 2026 CE · JP · UTC+9

Śukla Saptamī
Śatabhiṣā nakshatra · Vajra yoga · Gara karaṇa · Budhavāra (Wednesday)

सूर्योदय / सूर्यास्त — Solar Times

Sūryodaya06:52Sūryāsta16:25

काल-विभाग — Divisions of the Day

Each window is shown with the rule that makes it and the source of the rule. Where the sources characterise a window, their words are given; this page adds no label of its own.

WindowTimeRuleSource
Brahma Muhūrta (ब्रह्म मुहूर्त)04:57 – 05:54the 14th fifteenth of the night ending at this sunriseManusmṛti 4.92; Aṣṭāṅgahṛdaya Sūtra 2.1, with Aruṇadatta and Hemādri
  • Manusmṛti 4.92: "brāhme muhūrte budhyeta" (one should wake in the brāhma muhūrta and reflect on dharma and the Veda)
  • Aṣṭāṅgahṛdaya Sūtra 2.1: "brāhme muhūrta uttiṣṭhet svastho rakṣārtham āyuṣaḥ" (the healthy should rise then, to protect life)
  • Aruṇadatta: "rātreś caturdaśo muhūrto brāhmo muhūrtaḥ"; Hemādri: "rātreś copāntyo muhūrto brāhmaḥ" (wording through a journal article)
Manu and Vāgbhaṭa name it; the 14th of the night is the commentators' definition
Abhijit Muhūrta (अभिजित् मुहूर्त)11:20 – 11:58the 8th fifteenth of the day, around middayṬikaṇikayātrā 3.7-8; Muhūrta-gaṇapati 83-86; Nārada-saṃhitā 9.4-5
  • Ṭikaṇikayātrā 3.8: "tena yānam apahāya dakṣiṇāṃ sarvadikṣv abhijit praśasyate" (under Abhijit, travel in every direction but the south is praised)
  • Muhūrta-gaṇapati 83-84: in Abhijit, even where faults exist, one may do all auspicious work except travel to the south
  • Vālmīki-Rāmāyaṇa 6.4.3 calls the midday muhūrta Vijaya ("yukto muhūrto vijayaḥ prāpto madhyaṃ divākaraḥ")
Wednesday: Nārada-saṃhitā 9.4-5 and Muhūrta-gaṇapati 85-86 except Abhijit on this weekday
Godhūli (गोधूलि)16:19 – 16:3115 pala before and after the half-set Sun (the text's sunset is the Sun's centre on the horizon)Muhūrta-mārtaṇḍa, Vivāha 38 (citing the Jyotirnibandha); Muhūrtacintāmaṇi, Vivāha 6.100-101
  • Muhūrtacintāmaṇi 6.100: "godhūliḥ sā munibhir uditā sarvakāryeṣu praśastā" (the sages declared godhūli praised for all works)
  • Muhūrta-mārtaṇḍa, Vivāha 38: a lagna for marriage when no other good lagna is available
  • Muhūrtacintāmaṇi, Yātrā 11.54: for travel, godhūli except toward the west
MC 6.101 places the instant by season (in hemanta the rayless disk, in the hot season the half-set Sun, in the rains the Sun fully set); the half-set form is given
Niśītha (निशीथ)23:10 – 00:08the 8th fifteenth of the night: the middle of the night (not clock midnight)Dharmasindhu; Muhūrtacintāmaṇi, Yātrā 11.54
  • Dharmasindhu: niśītha is the middle of the night, finely the 8th muhūrta; the instant at which a tithi is taken for night observances
  • Muhūrtacintāmaṇi, Yātrā 11.54: for travel, niśītha except toward the north
Gulika Kālam (गुलिक)10:27 – 11:39Saturn's eighth of the day: part 4 of 8, counted from MercuryBṛhat-Parāśara-Horāśāstra ch. 3 (upagrahas)
  • Kālaprakāśikā ch. 34 (tr. N. P. Subramania Iyer, 1917): for harvest, trade, medical treatment and the study of the Vedas "Gulika has no evil force"; ch. 33 note: "Gulika is not considered inauspicious"
  • Phaladīpikā 25.20 (as a natal upagraha): Gulika acts like Saturn
BPHS uses these parts to fix the upagraha points; the 8th eighth has no lord
Yamaghaṇṭaka (Yamagaṇḍa) Kālam (यमघण्टक)08:04 – 09:15Jupiter's eighth of the day: part 2 of 8, counted from MercuryBṛhat-Parāśara-Horāśāstra ch. 3 (upagrahas)
  • Kālaprakāśikā ch. 33: listed with Ardhapraharam and Kālan as periods to be set aside
  • Phaladīpikā 25.19-20 (as a natal upagraha): Yamakaṇṭaka acts like Jupiter, the strongest of the upagrahas at giving good
  • Muhūrtacintāmaṇi 1.37-39 counts a Yamaghaṇṭa among the faulty moments (duṣṭakṣaṇa), in sixteenths of the day: the second half of this eighth
BPHS uses these parts to fix the upagraha points; the 8th eighth has no lord
Rāhu Kālam (राहु काल)11:39 – 12:50part 5 of the day's 8 (Sun 8, Mon 2, Tue 7, Wed 5, Thu 6, Fri 4, Sat 3)South Indian almanac table (Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala); no verse found in BPHS, Bṛhatsaṃhitā, Muhūrtacintāmaṇi, Muhūrta-mārtaṇḍa, Nārada-saṃhitā, Phaladīpikā, Dharmasindhu, Nirṇayasindhu or Praśna-mārga · regional convention
  • Uttara-kālāmṛta 2.29 (post-16th century; read in P. S. Sastri's English): not to bathe in the sea during it. The editor: "Standard texts have no mention of it."

चौघड़िया — Choghaḍiyā

An almanac convention of Gujarat, Rajasthan and Maharashtra: no verse defining it was found in the classical muhūrta texts; the names are the convention's own, and no further verdict is given here.

Day Choghaḍiyās (sunrise → sunset)

#NamePlanetTime
1Lābha लाभMercury06:52 – 08:04
2Amṛta अमृतMoon08:04 – 09:15
3Kāla कालSaturn09:15 – 10:27
4Śubha शुभJupiter10:27 – 11:39
5Roga रोगMars11:39 – 12:50
6Udvega उद्वेगSun12:50 – 14:02
7Cara चरVenus14:02 – 15:14
8Lābha लाभMercury15:14 – 16:25

Night Choghaḍiyās (sunset → next sunrise)

#NamePlanetTime
1Udvega उद्वेगSun16:25 – 18:14
2Śubha शुभJupiter18:14 – 20:02
3Amṛta अमृतMoon20:02 – 21:51
4Cara चरVenus21:51 – 23:39
5Roga रोगMars23:39 – 01:27
6Kāla कालSaturn01:27 – 03:16
7Lābha लाभMercury03:16 – 05:04
8Udvega उद्वेगSun05:04 – 06:53

१५ दिन-मुहूर्त — 15 Day-Muhūrtas

Each muhūrta is a fifteenth of the day, and of the night (Varāhamihira, Ṭikaṇikayātrā 3.4); the names and their deities are his (3.2-3.3). He and the Bṛhatsaṃhitā (98.3) judge a muhūrta by its presiding deity; no muhūrta is labelled here.

#Muhūrta (deity)Time
1Śiva शिव06:52 – 07:30
2Bhujaga भुजग07:30 – 08:09
3Mitra मित्र08:09 – 08:47
4Pitṛ पितृ08:47 – 09:25
5Vasu वसु09:25 – 10:03
6Jala जल10:03 – 10:41
7Viśva विश्व10:41 – 11:20
8Viriñci (Abhijit) विरिञ्चि11:20 – 11:58
9Paṅkajaprabhava (Brahmā) पङ्कजप्रभव11:58 – 12:36
10Indra इन्द्र12:36 – 13:14
11Indrāgnī इन्द्राग्नी13:14 – 13:52
12Niśācara निशाचर13:52 – 14:31
13Varuṇa वरुण14:31 – 15:09
14Aryaman अर्यमन्15:09 – 15:47
15Yoni (Bhaga) योनि15:47 – 16:25

१५ रात्रि-मुहूर्त — 15 Night-Muhūrtas

#Muhūrta (deity)Time
1Rudra रुद्र16:25 – 17:23
2Aja अज17:23 – 18:21
3Ahirbudhnya अहिर्बुध्न्य18:21 – 19:19
4Pūṣan पूषन्19:19 – 20:17
5Dasra दस्र20:17 – 21:14
6Antaka अन्तक21:14 – 22:12
7Agni अग्नि22:12 – 23:10
8Dhātṛ धातृ23:10 – 00:08
9Indu इन्दु00:08 – 01:06
10Aditi अदिति01:06 – 02:03
11Guru गुरु02:03 – 03:01
12Hari हरि03:01 – 03:59
13Ravi रवि03:59 – 04:57
14Tvaṣṭṛ त्वष्टृ04:57 – 05:55
15Anila अनिल05:55 – 06:53

अयनांश — Ayanāṁśa of the Sūrya Siddhānta

The text's own motion of the equinox: a libration of ±27°, 600 turns in an Age (Sūrya Siddhānta III.9-10). Other schools' anchors are not used here.

SystemRuleValue
Sūrya Siddhānta (text)Libration ±27°, 600 turns per Age (III.9-10)22.9150°

Sources and Related Pañchāṅga Tools

Continue from this complete local Pañchāṅga to its city-day page, Muhūrta, Choghaḍiyā, Hora, machine-readable data, Jyotiṣa references, Saṁskāra timing, calculator, tīrtha, Bindu, and philosophy. This city is one reader-local kṣetra, not a universal center, and the timings do not replace qualified local guidance.

Tokyo, Japan city routepage-local city darśana, LMT, closed-science sun-times, and local kṣetra orientation/citiesmaster Bhūmi city-access source pathway and full Earth search doorwaycity search APImachine doorway for resolving the same city slug from the shipped city corpusTokyo, Japan city-daycity-localized pañchāṅga descent for this date and kṣetraTokyo, Japan muhūrtaRāhu-kālam, Yamagaṇḍa, Gulika, Abhijit, Brahma, and day-muhūrta companion routeTokyo, Japan choghaḍiyāday and night choghaḍiyā companion route for local action windowsTokyo, Japan hora24-hour graha-rulership companion route for local hora selectionTokyo, Japan complete pañchāṅgacomplete localized pañchāṅga route with muhūrta, choghaḍiyā, multi-ayanāṁśa, and local source pathwayuniversal day pathwayatomic 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 pathway 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

JSON: GET /api/muhurta/2026-12-16/35.6762,139.6503?tz=9 ·GET /api/choghadiya/2026-12-16/35.6762,139.6503 ·GET /api/trikala/2026-12-16?lat=35.6762&lon=139.6503