Choghadiya Today in California

Aaj ka choghadiya across California: live day and night shubh muhurat with exact-time pages for San Jose, Fremont and Los Angeles. The tables below are computed for San Jose; every listed city links to its own page with its own sunrise.

Exact choghadiya for every California city

San Jose choghadiya

Choghadiya in Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, Milpitas, Cupertino, Mountain View follows San Jose within a few minutes, because the whole metro shares nearly the same sunrise and sunset. Open the live San Jose choghadiya page for the exact day and night timings, with the current period highlighted.

Fremont choghadiya

Choghadiya in Union City, Hayward, Dublin (CA), Pleasanton, San Ramon follows Fremont within a few minutes, because the whole metro shares nearly the same sunrise and sunset. Open the live Fremont choghadiya page for the exact day and night timings, with the current period highlighted.

Los Angeles choghadiya

Choghadiya in Artesia, Cerritos, Norwalk, Irvine, Anaheim follows Los Angeles within a few minutes, because the whole metro shares nearly the same sunrise and sunset. Open the live Los Angeles choghadiya page for the exact day and night timings, with the current period highlighted.

Elsewhere in California, in San Diego, Sacramento, Bakersfield, sunrise and sunset move a little further from the tables above, so the periods shift by some minutes. Use the nearest city page above as a close guide, or locate your exact town on the full Panchang page for to-the-minute times.

How choghadiya works in California

Choghadiya divides the time from sunrise to sunset into eight equal periods, and the night from sunset to the next sunrise into eight more. It is anchored to the local sun, not to Indian Standard Time, so the same weekday order lands on different clock times in every California city, and the periods stretch in summer and shrink in winter. The order for each weekday never changes:

Day	Day choghadiya order (from sunrise)	Night choghadiya order (from sunset)
Sunday	Udveg, Char, Labh, Amrit, Kaal, Shubh, Rog, Udveg	Shubh, Amrit, Char, Rog, Kaal, Labh, Udveg, Shubh
Monday	Amrit, Kaal, Shubh, Rog, Udveg, Char, Labh, Amrit	Char, Rog, Kaal, Labh, Udveg, Shubh, Amrit, Char
Tuesday	Rog, Udveg, Char, Labh, Amrit, Kaal, Shubh, Rog	Kaal, Labh, Udveg, Shubh, Amrit, Char, Rog, Kaal
Wednesday	Labh, Amrit, Kaal, Shubh, Rog, Udveg, Char, Labh	Udveg, Shubh, Amrit, Char, Rog, Kaal, Labh, Udveg
Thursday	Shubh, Rog, Udveg, Char, Labh, Amrit, Kaal, Shubh	Amrit, Char, Rog, Kaal, Labh, Udveg, Shubh, Amrit
Friday	Char, Labh, Amrit, Kaal, Shubh, Rog, Udveg, Char	Rog, Kaal, Labh, Udveg, Shubh, Amrit, Char, Rog
Saturday	Kaal, Shubh, Rog, Udveg, Char, Labh, Amrit, Kaal	Labh, Udveg, Shubh, Amrit, Char, Rog, Kaal, Labh

Choghadiya through the year in San Jose

Each choghadiya is an eighth of the day or of the night, so its length is set by how long the sun is up in San Jose. These are the sunrise and sunset for the twenty first of each month, with the resulting length of a single day and night period. Times move by under two minutes from year to year, so this table holds true whichever year you are reading it in.

Choghadiya in California: common questions

Which choghadiya should I use in California?

Use the page of the city nearest to you: San Jose, Fremont, Los Angeles. Within the same metro the periods differ by only a few minutes, because choghadiya is computed from the local sunrise and sunset.

Is the choghadiya the same everywhere in California?

The weekday order of the eight periods is identical everywhere, in California and in India alike. What changes from city to city is the clock time of each period, which follows each place’s own sunrise and sunset and shifts as you move east or west across California.

Which choghadiya are good and which should be avoided?

Amrit, Shubh and Labh are auspicious for beginning new work; Char is fine for travel and routine tasks. Rog, Kaal and Udveg are best avoided for new beginnings, though work already underway need not stop.

My town in California is not listed. How do I get exact times?

Pick the nearest city above; within a metro the difference is a few minutes. For to-the-minute times in any town, use the full Panchang page and search your exact location, or let the free Bhakti Angan app compute the choghadiya for wherever you are and show it on your home screen.

Nearby regions

Live timings are computed astronomically for San Jose and shown in local time; each linked city page computes its own. Panchang traditions can vary; for samskaras and major events, please also consult your family panditji.