Rahu Kaal today in Mumbai
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Rahu Kaal in Mumbai is one eighth of the time between local sunrise and local sunset, and which eighth depends only on the weekday. Because Mumbai has its own sunrise time, the window here is not the same clock time as Delhi, Mumbai or Kolkata on the same date, and it shifts through the year as daylight lengthens and shortens.
Rahu Kaal for Mumbai today, with Gulika Kaal and Yamaganda on the same eight-part timeline.
Mumbai · 2026-10-22 · Thursday · sunrise 06:35 · sunset 18:12
Daylight of 06:35 – 18:12 divided into 8 equal parts of 87 minutes each, for Thursday.
Daylight from sunrise to sunset is divided into eight equal parts. One part per weekday belongs to Rahu, and new work is traditionally not begun inside it. Because the parts are one-eighth of the actual daylight, Rahu Kaal is longer in summer than in winter and shifts with your city.
Why Mumbai has its own Rahu Kaal
Mumbai sits about 4.3 degrees west of Delhi, so the sun rises here roughly 17 minutes LATER and every one of the eight daylight parts starts later too. Rahu Kaal is never a fixed clock time: it is a fraction of actual daylight, counted from the moment the sun comes up where you are. A table copied from another city can be wrong by the better part of an hour, which is enough to place you inside the window while you believe you are outside it.
How the window is calculated
Take the local sunrise and sunset for Mumbai on the date. Subtract one from the other to get the length of daylight, then divide by eight. Count the parts from sunrise. The weekday decides which part belongs to Rahu: the 8th part on Sunday, 2nd on Monday, 7th on Tuesday, 5th on Wednesday, 6th on Thursday, 4th on Friday and 3rd on Saturday. No planetary position and no birth chart enters this — which is why two sites disagree only when their sunrise data differs.
How much it moves through the year in Mumbai
Because the window is one eighth of daylight, its LENGTH changes with the season as well as its start time. Around the winter solstice an eighth of daylight in Mumbai runs to roughly 65-70 minutes; near the summer solstice it stretches to roughly 85-90 minutes. That is why a Rahu Kaal you memorised in January is misleading by June, even in the same city.
Read it with Gulika Kaal and Yamaganda
The same eight-part division of daylight also produces Gulika Kaal and Yamaganda, on different weekday indices. On any date these three occupy exactly three of the eight parts and never overlap, so the timeline above shows all three together. Avoiding Rahu Kaal only to land inside Yamaganda defeats the purpose.
What tradition actually asks you to avoid
The classical caution concerns beginnings: starting a journey, signing, opening a shop, a first meeting. Continuing work already under way is not treated as a problem, and there is no traditional claim that harm follows automatically. Practitioners also commonly accept that fixed obligations such as a scheduled surgery or a booked flight are not rearranged around it.
Limitations you should know
This page reports a window only when sunrise and sunset for Mumbai on the date are already in our daily cache. If they are not, it says so instead of estimating. Sunrise definitions also vary slightly between sources (disc centre versus upper limb, refraction assumptions), which can move the boundary by a couple of minutes.
Frequently asked questions
What is the Rahu Kaal time in Mumbai today?+
The window shown above, computed from today's sunrise and sunset for Mumbai. It changes every day, so there is no single fixed time to memorise.
Is Rahu Kaal in Mumbai the same as in Delhi?+
No. Mumbai sits about 4.3 degrees west of Delhi, so the sun rises here roughly 17 minutes LATER and every one of the eight daylight parts starts later too. Both cities use the same weekday rule, but they apply it to different sunrise and sunset times.
Does Rahu Kaal depend on my birth chart?+
No. It is a daily timing derived from sunrise, sunset and the weekday only. Nothing personal enters it, which is also its limitation — it cannot tell you whether a date suits you specifically.
Why does another Mumbai website show a slightly different Rahu Kaal?+
Almost always different sunrise or sunset data, or a slightly different sunrise definition. The eighth-part arithmetic itself is standard and not in dispute.
Is Rahu Kaal observed everywhere in India?+
It is weighted heavily in South Indian practice and consulted more loosely in the north, where Choghadiya is often preferred. Both traditions use the same daylight-division method.
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