Nalla Neram today
Gowri Panchangam · Nalla Neram
Tamil Nadu's own table: day and night in eight parts each — five good, three to set aside — measured from your own sunrise and sunset.
Working out today's times…
Gowri Panchangam today in Chennai
Gowri Panchangam
- Day · Amirdha
- 6:09 AM – 7:35 AMGood — nectar
- Day · Visham
- 7:35 AM – 9:01 AMAvoid — poison
- Day · Rogam
- 9:01 AM – 10:27 AMAvoid — illness
- Day · Laabam
- 10:27 AM – 11:53 AMGood — gain
- Day · Dhanam
- 11:53 AM – 1:19 PMGood — wealth
- Day · Sugam
- 1:19 PM – 2:45 PMGood — ease
- Day · Soram
- 2:45 PM – 4:11 PMAvoid — theft
- Day · Uthi
- 4:11 PM – 5:38 PMGood — effort
- Night · Sugam
- 5:38 PM – 7:11 PMGood — ease
- Night · Soram
- 7:11 PM – 8:45 PMAvoid — theft
- Night · Uthi
- 8:45 PM – 10:19 PMGood — effort
- Night · Amirdha
- 10:19 PM – 11:53 PMGood — nectar
- Night · Visham
- 11:53 PM – 1:27 AMAvoid — poison
- Night · Rogam
- 1:27 AM – 3:01 AMAvoid — illness
- Night · Laabam
- 3:01 AM – 4:35 AMGood — gain
- Night · Dhanam
- 4:35 AM – 6:09 AMGood — wealth
The five limbs
- Tithi
- Shukla Saptami until 4:20 AM, TueLunar day — How far the Moon has pulled ahead of the Sun. Every 12° makes a new lunar day, so a month has thirty and one can begin at any hour. The day is named for the one in force at sunrise.
- Nakshatra
- Shravana until 2:16 AM, TueMoon's star — Which of the 27 star-groups the Moon is passing through. It moves on about once a day; the one it was in when you were born is your birth star.
- Yoga
- Ganda until 7:15 AMSun and Moon together — The Sun's and the Moon's positions added together, counted in 27 steps. Each step has a name, and a few are ones people avoid for new starts.
- Karana
- Gara until 3:14 PM, then VanijaHalf a lunar day — Each lunar day has two halves, each with a name of its own. Vishti, also called Bhadra, is the one people step around for new starts.
- Weekday (Vara)
- Somavara (Monday)Weekday — The weekday, named for the planet that rules its first hour. In the panchang it changes at sunrise, not at midnight.
- Lunar month
- Kartika (Amanta)
- Samvatsara
- Parabhava
- Moon sign
- Makara (Capricorn) until 3:30 PM, Tue
Sun and Moon
- Sunrise
- 6:09 AM
- Sunset
- 5:38 PM
- Moonrise
- 11:42 AM
- Moonset
- 11:20 PM
Good times and times to avoid
- Rahu Kaal
- 7:35 AM – 9:01 AMAvoid starting anything new
- Yamagandam
- 10:27 AM – 11:53 AMAvoid
- Gulika Kaal
- 1:19 PM – 2:45 PMAvoid
- Abhijit Muhurta
- 11:30 AM – 12:16 PMAuspicious
- Brahma Muhurta
- 4:33 AM – 5:21 AMThe hour before dawn
- Durmuhurtam
- 12:16 PM – 1:02 PM; 2:34 PM – 3:20 PMAvoid
- Varjyam
- None todayAvoid
- Amrit Kalam
- 2:39 PM – 4:27 PMAuspicious
Festivals today
No major festival falls today in Chennai.
Worked out for Chennai (13.08°N, 80.27°E) from a planetary ephemeris with the Lahiri ayanamsa. Times change with your location — the panel above is for the place you set.
Questions people ask
What is Nalla Neram?
The good stretches of the day in the Tamil reckoning. Daylight and night are each cut into eight parts named Amirdha, Uthi, Laabam, Sugam, Dhanam, Rogam, Soram and Visham; the first five are the good ones — the Nalla Neram — and the other three are set aside. The weekday decides which name the day opens with.
What is today's Nalla Neram — intraiya nalla neram?
Today's good parts are at the top of this page for the place you have chosen, with Chennai's written out below them: each of the five good names — Amirdha, Uthi, Laabam, Sugam and Dhanam — with its start and end, by day and by night.
Is this the same as the Nalla Neram on a printed calendar?
Not quite. A printed daily sheet usually carries its publisher's own short Nalla Neram row, nearly the same times every day.
Here the parts are the Gowri Panchangam itself, measured from your own sunrise and sunset, so they move with the season and with your town.
What is Gowri Panchangam used for?
Everyday beginnings — setting out on a journey, starting work, handing over money, or a small ceremony at home. For a wedding or a house-warming the family's priest weighs the month, tithi, star and lagna as well.
Is Gowri Panchangam used across South India?
No — it is Tamil. Tamil Nadu keeps it, as do Tamil families in Sri Lanka, Singapore and Malaysia, but Telugu and Kannada almanacs do not print it at all: they read Varjyam, Durmuhurtham and Gulika Kaala for the same purpose, and Kerala keeps its own reckoning.
So this is the page for a Tamil household, not a South Indian one in general.
How is this different from the Choghadiya?
They answer the same question in two traditions. Both divide daylight and night into eight equal parts from the local sunrise and sunset, with the weekday setting the order.
The Gowri Panchangam uses eight Tamil names, five of them good, from a fixed table; the Choghadiya of the North and West uses seven names, three of them good, walking the planetary order from the weekday's lord. Because the two are built differently, a part that is good here can be one to avoid there — they are not two views of one answer.
Why is my Nalla Neram different from a Chennai almanac's?
Because the eight parts are measured from the sunrise and sunset of the place you have set. Coimbatore's sunrise is later than Chennai's by several minutes, and a city abroad by hours, so every boundary moves with it.