Dur Muhurat Today for Any City and Date

Choose a town or city above, and a date if you want a day other than today, and this free tool gives the dur muhurat of that day in your local time, says which of the fifteen muhurtas it is, and shows the rule for every weekday. When the date is today, it also says whether a dur muhurat is running now.

How it works

A muhurta here is a fifteenth of the daytime, from sunrise to sunset, or a fifteenth of the night, from sunset to the next sunrise. It is 48 minutes only on a twelve-hour day; on a long summer day it is longer and on a short winter day shorter. The tool works out the sunrise and sunset of your town or city, with the upper edge of the Sun on the horizon and the usual allowance for refraction, and cuts the day and the night into fifteen parts.

The weekday decides which muhurtas are dur muhurat, as Drik Panchang marks them on its daily pages:

Reading the result

The answer gives the dur muhurat of the day with its times, and the table says which muhurta each one is and how long it lasts. A time with a date in brackets falls after midnight; it still belongs to the day you chose, because a panchang day runs from sunrise to the next sunrise. For the same reason, between midnight and sunrise on today’s date the line about the present moment looks at the day before, whose night is still running, and says so when one of its dur muhurtas is running. Drik Panchang lists dur muhurat among the inauspicious timings of the day, with Rahu kaal: tradition keeps new beginnings out of it, and ordinary work carries on as usual.

How we checked it

We compared the tool with 49 of Drik Panchang’s daily pages, 43 days in New Delhi and 6 in New York, between October 2026 and August 2027, which cover every weekday. Every day had the same number of dur muhurats, and all 82 started and ended in the same minute or one minute earlier in our list, because our sunrise and sunset come up to a minute before Drik Panchang’s. Against sunrise and sunset from the Swiss Ephemeris (pyswisseph) at 17 places and dates, every start and end agreed within 12 seconds, and on average within about 2 seconds.

Where traditions differ

We follow the weekday numbers in Drik Panchang’s daily pages, as checked above; another almanac may list the weekdays differently. The muhurtas are worked out from the real sunrise and sunset of your place, so the times differ from a printed table made for another city, or from one that counts 48-minute muhurtas from a sunrise at six. If your family follows a particular almanac, keep to its times.

What it does not do

It does not give the other muhurtas of the day, such as Abhijit or Brahma muhurta; for those, see today’s timings. It does not give Varjyam, which is a separate rule tied to the nakshatra; for that, see Amrit kaal and Varjyam. For the day’s full panchang, open the panchang for any place.

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