What is Gulika Kaal?

Gulika Kaal (गुलिक काल) is a daily daylight window associated with Saturn in traditional timing practice.

panchang.now treats it as Avoid for new beginnings. Traditions differ in their use of Gulika; this classification describes the site's chosen convention, not a universal rule for every activity.

The weekday pattern

Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, is divided into eight equal parts. Gulika occupies the part shown below:

Weekday	Part of daylight
Sunday	7th
Monday	6th
Tuesday	5th
Wednesday	4th
Thursday	3rd
Friday	2nd
Saturday	1st

The duration follows daylight length. The familiar 90-minute interval applies to a 12-hour day; the page uses the selected city's actual sunrise and sunset.

A worked example

For Delhi on Friday, 2 October 2026, Gulika occupies the second daylight part, 07:43-09:12. The same interval is Labh Choghadiya, labelled Good.

At 08:00, Now would read Avoid because Gulika takes priority. The Labh label remains Good: it belongs to the Choghadiya system, while the G badge marks the overlapping Gulika window.

Which Gulika this page describes

The daily time window is distinct from a Gulika position calculated in a birth chart. Reading the day's Gulika time does not describe a person's natal placement.

Rahu Kaal and Yamaganda are the other two Avoid windows in the dashboard's verdict rules.

See the Panchang reading guide, or today's Gulika on the Delhi dashboard.