Today’s inauspicious period for your city
Rahu Kaal is a roughly ninety-minute window each day traditionally avoided for starting anything new. It is computed from your local sunrise and sunset, so it differs by city and by date — a fixed table is always wrong somewhere.
The time between sunrise and sunset is divided into eight equal parts. Which part is Rahu Kaal depends on the weekday: the eighth on Sunday, the second on Monday, the seventh on Tuesday, the fifth on Wednesday, the sixth on Thursday, the fourth on Friday and the third on Saturday.
Because it derives from actual sunrise and sunset, the window shifts through the year and differs between cities at the same longitude but different latitudes. In winter, when days are shorter, each part is shorter too.
Two other parts of the day carry similar caution in traditional practice. They are computed the same way from different weekday positions, and are shown alongside Rahu Kaal here.
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