Choghadiya sequence
How to read the eight Choghadiya slots
Day and night each hold eight Choghadiya slots, with seven names in two different orders. See all seven weekdays and why the eighth slot repeats.
01 · Sixteen slots, seven names
Each weekday starts its day and its night at a set point in the same cycle.
Daylight and night each hold eight Choghadiya slots. By day the seven names run in one order and by night in another, and in both the eighth slot repeats the first. The weekday sets which name opens each half.
Eight slots, seven names
Choghadiya divides daylight into eight equal slots and the night into eight more, as how Hora and Choghadiya divide the same day shows. There are only seven names, so in each half one name appears twice: the eighth slot always repeats the first.
The seven names and the site’s labels are Amrit, Shubh and Labh (favourable), Char (neutral), and Udveg, Kaal and Rog (avoided), as the Choghadiya guide lists.
Two orders
The names do not follow one cycle through the whole day. From the site’s Panchang:
- By day the cycle runs Udveg, Char, Labh, Amrit, Kaal, Shubh, Rog, and round again.
- By night it runs Shubh, Amrit, Char, Rog, Kaal, Labh, Udveg, and round again.
So a night list cannot be found by carrying on from the day’s last slot. On Sunday 1 November 2026 in Delhi the day ended with Rog and Udveg, and the night began with Shubh.
The weekday sets the start
Each weekday opens its day and its night at a fixed point in those cycles:
| Weekday | First day slot | First night slot |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | Udveg | Shubh |
| Monday | Amrit | Char |
| Tuesday | Rog | Kaal |
| Wednesday | Labh | Udveg |
| Thursday | Shubh | Amrit |
| Friday | Char | Rog |
| Saturday | Kaal | Labh |
The weekday is the Panchang vaar, counted from sunrise, so the night slots after midnight still belong to the previous weekday’s list.
Lengths change, order does not
The slot lengths come from the day’s sunrise and sunset. In Delhi in early November 2026 a day slot lasted about 83 minutes and a night slot about 97; in June the day slots are longer than the night slots. The names and their order stay the same whatever the season, so the same name can cover quite different clock times on the same weekday a few months apart.
See today’s Choghadiya on the Delhi Panchang, or explore another topic in Learn.