What is Yamaganda Kaal?

Yamaganda Kaal (यमगण्ड काल) is a daily window that panchang.now's timing convention marks Avoid for new beginnings.

Like Rahu Kaal, it takes one of eight equal parts of daylight, measured from sunrise to sunset. It uses its own weekday pattern, so it is a separate window. Its length is 90 minutes only when daylight lasts exactly 12 hours.

The weekday pattern

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

The first part starts at sunrise. Later parts follow without gaps until the eighth ends at sunset. Their clock times change with location and season.

A worked example

For Delhi on Friday, 2 October 2026, the seventh daylight part runs from 15:08 to 16:37. That is the Yamaganda row for the date. It is not a fixed Friday schedule for every city.

How to read overlapping labels

During Yamaganda, Now reads Avoid even if the underlying Choghadiya carries a Good label. The Choghadiya name still describes its own interval; Yamaganda supplies the higher-priority verdict.

The timeline marks Yamaganda with hatching, and an overlapping Choghadiya row carries a Y badge. How the Now verdict works explains how to read these layers.

The label describes the site's traditional timing convention. It is not a forecast of events during that interval.

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