The nectar window
Amrit Kalam
A short good window set by the Moon's star, not the clock — it can fall at any hour, even after midnight.
Working out today's times…
Amrit Kalam today in New Delhi
Amrit Kalam
- Amrit Kalam
- 8:58 PM – 10:45 PMAuspicious
The five limbs
- Tithi
- Shukla Panchami until 3:25 AM, Fri
- Nakshatra
- Jyeshtha until 6:47 AM, Fri
- Yoga
- Saubhagya until 9:14 PM
- Karana
- Bava until 2:16 PM, then Balava
- Weekday (Vara)
- Guruvara (Thursday)
- Lunar month
- Ashwina (Amanta)
- Samvatsara
- Parabhava
- Moon sign
- Vrischika (Scorpio) until 6:47 AM, Fri
Sun and Moon
- Sunrise
- 6:23 AM
- Sunset
- 5:50 PM
- Moonrise
- 10:41 AM
- Moonset
- 8:48 PM
Good times and times to avoid
- Rahu Kaal
- 1:32 PM – 2:58 PMAvoid starting anything new
- Yamagandam
- 6:23 AM – 7:48 AMAvoid
- Gulika Kaal
- 9:14 AM – 10:40 AMAvoid
- Abhijit Muhurta
- 11:43 AM – 12:29 PMAuspicious
- Brahma Muhurta
- 4:47 AM – 5:35 AMThe hour before dawn
- Durmuhurtam
- 10:12 AM – 10:58 AM; 2:47 PM – 3:33 PMAvoid
- Varjyam
- 10:17 AM – 12:04 PMAvoid
- Amrit Kalam
- 8:58 PM – 10:45 PMAuspicious
Festivals today
No major festival falls today in New Delhi.
Worked out for New Delhi (28.61°N, 77.21°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 Amrit Kalam?
A good window of about an hour and a half that belongs to the Moon's star (nakshatra). Each star is divided into 60 ghatis, and each star has its own ghati where the nectar window begins; it lasts four ghatis. It is the counterpart of Varjyam (Thyajyam), the window to avoid in the same star.
Why is Amrit Kalam at a different time every day?
Because it follows the Moon, not the Sun. The Moon moves into a new star roughly once a day, each star starts its nectar window at a different ghati, and a ghati is a sixtieth of how long the Moon actually takes to cross that star — so the window can land in the morning one day and after midnight the next.
Why does it sometimes say None today?
A window is listed on the day it begins, from one sunrise to the next. When the Moon's star changes slowly, a day can pass with no window starting in it, and another day can have two.
Is Amrit Kalam the same as the Amrit choghadiya?
No. The Amrit choghadiya is one of the eight equal parts of daylight or night, set by the weekday. Amrit Kalam is set by the Moon's star. They share the word for nectar and nothing else, and they rarely coincide.