Brahma Muhurat Today for India (Delhi reference)
Brahma Muhurat today: 05:02 to 05:50 (IST), best reserved for prayer and study.
Times below use the Delhi reference coordinates. Panchang values depend on your exact location — pick your city for sunrise-anchored local times.
Full day details
| Tithi | Krishna Chaturdasi |
|---|---|
| Tithi ends | 11:28 |
| Nakshatra | Svati |
| Nakshatra ends | 07:24 (+1 day) |
| Yoga | Ayusman |
| Yoga ends | 03:03 (+1 day) |
| Karana | Sakuni |
| Karana ends | 11:28 |
| Sunrise | 06:38 |
| Sunset | 17:31 |
| Moonrise | 05:36 |
| Moonset | 16:39 |
What Brahma Muhurat is used for
The window is reserved for meditation, japa, study of scripture and the day’s first prayers — activities that benefit from a calm mind rather than from auspicious selection. It carries no restriction: missing it costs nothing, and worldly beginnings are neither better nor worse for it. Its length follows the classical definition (two muhurats, about 96 minutes before sunrise) and moves with the season together with sunrise itself.
Methodology and reference
All timings on this page are computed astronomically for Delhi, India — solar and lunar positions, the Lahiri (Chitrapaksha) ayanamsa and sunrise-anchored window divisions — and regression-checked against the Government of India publication Rashtriya Panchang (Positional Astronomy Centre, India Meteorological Department, Kolkata). Data verified against the Positional Astronomy Centre, IMD (Government of India) publications on every site update; the computation method is described on the about page.
Brahma Muhurat for other cities
Frequently asked questions
- What is Brahma Muhurat?
- Brahma Muhurat is the pre-dawn window in the last quarter of the night — the second-to-last of the sixteen muhurats into which the night is divided. It is the traditional time for meditation, prayer, study and the day's first rituals.
- Why is Brahma Muhurat considered special?
- The atmosphere is calm, the mind is rested and the classical texts describe the period as saturated with sattva. Ayurveda adds that digestion and awareness are at their best for study before sunrise.
- Does Brahma Muhurat shift with the seasons?
- Yes. It is anchored to sunrise, not to the clock: as sunrise moves through the year, the window moves with it. This page computes it fresh for the reference city every day.