Muhurat today: Abhijit, Brahma muhurta and all 30 muhurtas

Today's muhurtas, for the city you pick

This tool lists all thirty for one day and night: the fifteen from sunrise to sunset and the fifteen from sunset to the next sunrise, each under the deity that presides over it, with the four that have names of their own pulled out above the table. The choghadiya table cuts the same day and night into eight parts each instead, and Rahu Kaal is one of the day's eight. It does not give the tithi or nakshatra of the day; the panchang does.

How a day becomes thirty

Day: sunrise to sunset, cut into fifteen equal parts

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• 8 Abhijit muhurta
• 11 Vijaya muhurta

Night: sunset to the next sunrise, cut into fifteen more

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• 8 Nishita kaal
• 14 Brahma muhurta

The rule is one line in Varahamihira's Brhadyatra 6.4: a muhurta is the fifteenth part of the day, and likewise of the night. The Piyushadhara commentary on Muhurta Chintamani 6.53 quotes Kashyapa saying the same, and the Shatapatha Brahmana 10.4.2.18 already counts fifteen parts of the day and fifteen of the night.

So under this rule the length is not fixed. The 48 minutes that English Wikipedia's Muhurta article gives is a second reading of the word: two ghatikas, a thirtieth of day and night together, which Kane (vol. V part 1, p. 538) traces to the Vedanga Jyotisha, Manusmriti 1.64 and Kautilya, and which Eggeling gives in his footnote to the Shatapatha passage. Kane (p. 541) shows how the two readings diverge as the day lengthens or shortens. This tool follows the fifteenth-of-the-day rule, because the deity names and the named windows below belong to it.

The Brahmanda Purana 1.21.122-123 says the day has fifteen muhurtas at the equinox and that they grow and shrink with the sun's northward and southward course; Kane (p. 541) reads that as their length changing, though the verse can also be read as their number. The tool prints the day and night lengths for the date you pick. How far they move from 48 minutes depends on the city: in Delhi a day muhurta runs from roughly 41 minutes in December to 56 in June, while in Singapore, near the equator, both stay within about a minute of 48 all year.

The thirty, by their deities

The names below are the presiding deities as Muhurta Chintamani 6.52-6.53 lists them (printed pp. 126-127 of that Hindi-commentary edition), and Brhadyatra 6.2-6.3 gives the same deities in the same order except at the 10th and 11th of the day, where its compound "indragnindra" puts Indra-and-Agni before Indra; we follow Muhurta Chintamani's order there. GRETIL files Pingree's edition of the Brhadyatra under the title Yogayatra, which is the page the Brhadyatra links here open. Where the two use different names for one deity we follow Muhurta Chintamani, whose 6.52 calls the 8th of the day Abhijit where Brhadyatra 6.2 has Virinchi, a name of Brahma; Brhadyatra 6.7 then calls the same muhurta Abhijit.

Other names for the same slots are in circulation, and it is worth knowing why a second site may not match this table. Kane's History of Dharmasastra, vol. V part 1 (p. 538) records that the Taittiriya Brahmana (3.10.1) gives the day's muhurtas entirely different names, Citra, Ketu and so on, and (p. 539) that the Atharvana Jyotisha and the Muhurtadarshana use a third set that includes Abhijit and Vijaya. AstroSage's do ghati table uses that third set. A fourth list, beginning Rudra, Ahi, Mitra and ending Brahma, Samudra (Samudram on some sites), is the table on English Wikipedia's Muhurta article, with no source given for the names, and AstroSage's do ghati page and the ISKCON VEDA encyclopedia print it too; we could not find it in any text, and its 29th name, Brahma, is Tvashta in both Brhadyatra 6.3 and Muhurta Chintamani 6.53.

The four with names of their own

Abhijit on a Wednesday. Muhurta Chintamani 6.54 forbids particular muhurtas on each weekday, twelve in all, and Wednesday's single ban is Abhijit. The tool still shows Abhijit's times on a Wednesday, because they are still the 8th muhurta, and adds a line saying so. Drik Panchang handles this unevenly across its own pages: on Wednesday 21 October 2026 its do ghati table labelled the midday slot Abhijit, its Abhijit page printed the same times with a note that Abhijit is unsuitable on a Wednesday, and its day panchang showed Abhijit as "None" and listed the same slot as Dur Muhurtam.

The other eleven bans in the same verse are not marked in the tool. Some name a single slot (Aryama, Sunday's ban, is the 14th of the day), but others name a deity who presides over more than one (Brahma over the 8th and 9th of the day and, as Dhata, the 8th of the night; Agni, Tuesday's, could be the 11th of the day or the 7th of the night), and we would rather mark only the ban the verse names outright than mark some and guess at the rest.

Vijaya comes from the Atharvana naming. In the deity list above the 11th of the day is Indragni. The name Vijaya belongs to the Atharvana scheme, and we show it at the 11th because that is where Drik Panchang and AstroSage put it.

Brahma muhurta, and which muhurta it is

The verses we found that name Brahma muhurta are about waking, not about timing. Manusmriti 4.92 says to wake in it and reflect on dharma and artha, and Ashtanga Hridaya, Sutrasthana 2.1 says a healthy person should rise in it to protect their life. Neither verse says where in the night it falls or how long it lasts, and nor do Yajnavalkya Smriti 1.115 and Baudhayana, which Kane (p. 538) lists beside Manu.

The placements in circulation differ:

The deity list adds a twist. The night muhurta presided over by Brahma (as Dhata) is the 8th, the one at midnight that Drik Panchang calls Nishita; the 14th is Tvashta's. So the Brahma muhurta that Drik Panchang prints before dawn is a name for a time of night, not the muhurta of the deity Brahma (which, in Kane's reading of Raghuvamsha, is Abhijit), and we have not found the text that first fixed it at the 14th.

One practical point follows. The table for a date runs from that date's sunrise to the next one, so its Brahma muhurta falls before sunrise the following morning. Drik Panchang's day panchang does the opposite and shows, under a date, the Brahma muhurta before that date's own sunrise, so its figure for one date matches this tool's table for the date before. If you want this morning's, pick yesterday's date, or open the page before sunrise: until sunrise, with no date picked, the tool shows the previous day's table, because the muhurta running then and this morning's Brahma muhurta both belong to it.

Which muhurtas are good

You will find tables that mark each of the thirty auspicious or inauspicious. We do not show one, because we could not find a text that gives such a verdict for each of the thirty, and the tables we did find (Drik Panchang's, English Wikipedia's and the ISKCON VEDA encyclopedia's) give no source for their verdicts (Wikipedia's has one citation, on its Brahma row, and that link is dead) and disagree with each other on at least three slots.

What the texts do give is different. Brhadyatra 6.5-6.6 says a muhurta is to be read like the nakshatra that shares its deity, with the same results. Muhurta Chintamani 6.54 forbids particular muhurtas on particular weekdays. And the named windows above carry their own instructions. That is less tidy than a red and green column, and it is what the sources say.

What the times rest on

Every time above comes from the real sunrise and sunset at the city's coordinates, computed by the Swiss Ephemeris with the sun's upper limb and standard refraction (the bending of sunlight by the air), the same engine and settings as the choghadiya table; the methodology page names the version and the corrections. Sunrise in Kolkata and Mumbai can be an hour apart on one clock, so a muhurta table computed for one Indian city is wrong elsewhere by however far their sunrises differ. The tool offers nineteen cities, and if yours is not among them a listed city stands in for it only approximately. At the same latitude, sunrise and sunset come about four minutes later for every degree of longitude you are west of a city, and four minutes earlier for every degree east, because the earth turns one degree in four minutes. A difference in latitude adds a second error, small at the equinoxes and largest near the solstices, so pick a city close to yours in both.

Four limits. The tool uses the city centre, not your street, so your times move from the centre's at the same rate of about four minutes for each degree east or west. It rounds its times to the nearest minute, so another site that rounds differently can print a minute different. A site that uses the sun's centre, or no refraction, for sunrise will differ by a couple of minutes for that reason alone. And the tool computes sunrise for an observer at sea level, so a site that allows for the city's height (Drik Panchang's Delhi page prints an elevation of 227 m) can differ for that reason too.

Muhurtas are a convention about time, read through a tradition. This page can tell you accurately where the thirty fall and what the texts say about them; it cannot tell you that starting something in one of them will turn out well. It also does not choose a date for a wedding, a griha pravesh or a business opening: that asks about the tithi, the nakshatra and the charts of the people involved, none of which a single-day table reads.