Abhijit Muhurat today, with the arithmetic
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Abhijit Muhurat is the eighth of fifteen equal muhurtas between sunrise and sunset — the window straddling local midday. It is treated as broadly favourable for starting work without consulting anything else. Most traditions omit it on Wednesday, and this page marks that exclusion rather than printing a window you should not use.
Abhijit Muhurat today, computed as the 8th of fifteen daylight muhurtas
New Delhi · 2026-10-22 · Thursday · sunrise 06:27 · sunset 17:46
sunrise → sunset divided into 15 equal muhurtas · part 8 of 15 · from 06:27 to 17:46 · 45 min each
Daylight is divided into fifteen equal muhurtas; Abhijit is the eighth, the middle one, straddling local solar noon. It is treated as broadly auspicious and is often used when no other muhurat can be found. Traditionally it is not used on Wednesday, so the Wednesday window is still shown but marked as excluded.
How the window is calculated
Divide sunset minus sunrise into fifteen equal muhurtas. The eighth is Abhijit. Since it is the middle part of fifteen, it always centres on local solar noon, and its length is one fifteenth of daylight — roughly 46 to 50 minutes in most of India across the year, not a fixed 48 minutes.
The Wednesday exclusion
Classical usage sets Abhijit aside on Wednesday. Our engine flags the day as excluded instead of showing a window, because printing a time while burying the exclusion in a footnote is how people end up using it anyway. On the other six days the window is shown with its working.
What it is genuinely useful for
Abhijit is the practical answer to "I have no time to find a muhurat": it needs no chart, no Nakshatra lookup and no priest. It is commonly used for signing, submitting, buying, travelling and starting study. It is not a substitute for a full marriage or Griha Pravesh muhurat, where Nakshatra, Tithi and lagna are all weighed.
When it clashes with Rahu Kaal
Abhijit can overlap Rahu Kaal, Gulika Kaal or Yamaganda, since they are separate divisions of the same daylight. Practitioners differ on which wins: many hold that Abhijit's strength cancels the overlap, others simply pick a clean part instead. Check the eighth-part timeline on the Rahu Kaal page before assuming.
Limitations
The window shown requires the date's sunrise and sunset to be cached for the city; otherwise the page reports the data as unavailable. Very high-latitude locations are outside the assumptions of this rule.
Frequently asked questions
Is Abhijit Muhurat always 48 minutes?+
No. It is one fifteenth of that day's daylight, so its length changes with the season and the place.
Why is there no Abhijit Muhurat on Wednesday?+
Traditional usage omits it on Wednesday. We mark the day as excluded rather than printing a window.
Can I use Abhijit for marriage?+
It is not a substitute for a marriage muhurat, which weighs Nakshatra, Tithi, lagna and family rules.
What if Abhijit overlaps Rahu Kaal?+
Opinions differ. Many treat Abhijit as prevailing; others avoid the overlap entirely and choose another daylight part.
Does Abhijit need my birth details?+
No. It depends only on sunrise, sunset and the weekday.
Related pages
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