Choose a town or city above, and a date if you want a day other than today, and this free tool tells you whether Bhadra falls between that day’s sunrise and the next sunrise, from when to when, and lists the next eight Bhadra periods with their start and end in your local time. When the date is today, it also says whether Bhadra is running at this moment.
How it works
Bhadra is another name for the Vishti karana. A karana is half of a tithi: it ends each time the Moon gains another six degrees on the Sun, so there are sixty in a lunar month. Apart from four fixed karanas at the end and start of the month, seven moving karanas follow one another in a fixed order, and Vishti is the seventh. They go round eight times in each lunar month, so a month has eight Bhadras.
The tool takes the positions of the Sun and the Moon from NASA JPL DE440 and finds the moment each karana begins and ends, to the second. A Bhadra lasts between 10 and 13.4 hours, as we found for every Bhadra from 1900 to 2074, because the Moon’s speed changes through its orbit. The moment is the same all over the world; only the clock time and the date change with the place, so the tool gives them in the time zone of the town or city you choose, with daylight saving.
Reading the result
The answer says whether Bhadra falls in the day you chose, which runs from sunrise to the next sunrise as a panchang day does. If it began before sunrise or runs past the next sunrise, the answer says so and gives the full times. The table lists the Bhadra of that day, if there is one, and the next eight after it, each with its length and the half of the tithi it covers. When the date is today and it is after midnight but before sunrise, the moment still belongs to the day before, so the line for right now also looks at a Bhadra that ends before this sunrise. Bhadra always falls in the same halves: the second half of Shukla Chaturthi, Shukla Ekadashi, Krishna Tritiya and Krishna Dashami, and the first half of Shukla Ashtami, Shukla Purnima, Krishna Saptami and Krishna Chaturdashi.
Tradition keeps new beginnings out of Bhadra: Drik Panchang names mundan, marriage, house-warming, pilgrimage and starting a new business. Our muhurat finder leaves the Vishti karana out of every event it lists. Ordinary work carries on as usual.
How we checked it
We compared the times with the Bhadra list that Drik Panchang publishes for New Delhi for November 2026: all 9 periods matched, with 8 of the 18 times in the same minute and the other 10 one minute later in our list. We also compared the 20 Bhadra spans shown on 49 of its daily pages for New Delhi and New York: all within a minute. Against the Swiss Ephemeris (pyswisseph), 137 Bhadra periods at 17 places and dates agreed within five seconds.
Where traditions differ
The start and end of Vishti are the same in every almanac that works from the true positions of the Sun and Moon, up to a minute or so. Where almanacs differ is in how strictly they treat it. Drik Panchang, for one, says Bhadra moves between the earth (Prithvi), heaven (Swarga) and the lower world (Patala), and that only its time on the earth is held to be inauspicious. We have not yet checked the rule for where it resides against a source we can name, so this tool does not show it; your family priest can tell you how your tradition reads a particular Bhadra.
What it does not do
It does not say whether a Bhadra is lighter or heavier, and it does not give the other karanas of the day or the tithi times. For those, open the panchang for any place. For Rahu kaal and the other daily periods, use today’s timings.
Frequently asked questions
↳ Is Bhadra the same as Vishti karana?
Yes. Vishti is the name of the karana, and Bhadra is the name many panchangs, Drik Panchang among them, use for it.
↳ How long does Bhadra last?
About half a tithi. Over the years 1900 to 2074 the shortest Bhadra lasts 10 hours and the longest 13.4 hours, because the Moon moves faster at some times of the month than at others.
↳ How often does Bhadra come?
Eight times in each lunar month, always in the same halves of the same tithis, so it comes every three or four days.
↳ Is Bhadra at the same time everywhere?
It is the same moment everywhere, because it depends only on the Sun and the Moon. The clock time and sometimes the date differ, which is why the tool asks for your town or city.
↳ What should not be done in Bhadra?
Tradition keeps new beginnings out of it, such as a wedding, a house-warming or a new venture. It is not a reason to stop ordinary work, and your family's custom comes first.
↳ Why does the tool not say where Bhadra resides?
Some almanacs place Bhadra on the earth, in heaven or in the lower world, and hold only its time on the earth to be inauspicious. We show only what we have checked against a published panchang, and that rule has not been checked yet.