What is Abhijit Muhurat?

Abhijit Muhurat (अभिजित मुहूर्त) is a short period around local midday, traditionally treated as favourable for beginning activities.

panchang.now places it in the eighth of 15 equal parts of daylight, from sunrise to sunset. It is centred on the midpoint between those events, which need not be 12:00 on the clock.

How long it lasts

For an illustrative day with sunrise at 06:00 and sunset at 18:00, each part lasts 48 minutes. Abhijit would run from 11:36 to 12:24.

The actual window changes with the city's daylight length. For Delhi on 2 October 2026, the displayed range is 11:46-12:34.

Why Wednesday has no window

The convention used on panchang.now excludes Abhijit on Wednesdays. The row says None on Wednesdays, so the absence is explicit. Other traditions can apply different restrictions; the site's About page describes its choices.

When Abhijit overlaps an Avoid window

Abhijit sets Now to Good only when Rahu Kaal, Yamaganda and Gulika are inactive. Those three windows take priority.

In the Delhi example, Rahu Kaal lasts until 12:10. At 12:00, both it and Abhijit are active, so Now would read Avoid. At 12:20, Rahu Kaal has ended while Abhijit continues, so Now would read Good.

This is the site's rule for combining windows, not a complete personalised muhurta assessment. The Abhijit name here refers to a daily time window, not a nakshatra.

See the Panchang reading guide, or Abhijit's availability on the Delhi dashboard.