Accuracy first — every position comes from DE440, NASA JPL's most precise planetary ephemeris.
Accuracy first — every position comes from DE440, NASA JPL's most precise planetary ephemeris.
Yamaganda is the second of the day's three inauspicious windows, traditionally associated with Yama and avoided in particular for setting out on a journey. It never falls at the same hour as Rahu Kaal.
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The daylight is cut into eight equal parts and the weekday assigns a different part to each of the three periods, so they cannot land on top of one another. A day therefore has three separate windows to avoid, not one — which is why checking only Rahu Kaal leaves two of them unchecked. Yamaganda can also fall in the first part just after sunrise, where Rahu Kaal never does.
Yama is associated with the end of a journey rather than its beginning, and the caution attached to this window is usually stated as travel: leaving the house, boarding, starting a long drive. In practice it is observed much as Rahu Kaal is for everything else as well — new work, purchases, agreements — with travel named first rather than named alone.
Because the window is a proportion of daylight rather than a fixed number of minutes, both its length and its start move as the days lengthen and shorten, and again when you change city. In midsummer it runs longer than in midwinter. No single weekday table can be correct everywhere, which is why this page asks for a place before it answers.
Rahu Kaal and Gulika Kaal occupy two more of the same eight parts, and Abhijit — the brief auspicious muhurat near midday — sits among them as the one period of the day that is sought rather than avoided. All four are worked out from the same sunrise and sunset, so a single day's timings hold together.
The arithmetic is not in dispute: Yamaganda is one of the same eight parts of daylight, assigned by weekday, and it is computed exactly as Rahu Kaal is. What differs is how widely it is published. Rahu Kaal appears in almost every almanac and is easy to check against another source; Yamaganda is carried less often, and some well-known almanacs give it no page at all. That is worth knowing before treating a disagreement as an error: for this window there is simply less to compare against, and the confidence here rests on the eighth-part rule that the Rahu Kaal timings confirm.
19 September 2026 · Saturday
13:46 – 15:1801:46 pm – 03:18 pm
1h 32mPart 6 of 8
| Day | Yamaganda |
|---|---|
20 September 2026 · Sunday | 12:14 – 13:4512:14 pm – 01:45 pm1h 32m |
21 September 2026 · Monday | 10:42 – 12:1410:42 am – 12:14 pm1h 31m |
22 September 2026 · Tuesday | 09:11 – 10:4209:11 am – 10:42 am1h 31m |
23 September 2026 · Wednesday | 07:40 – 09:1107:40 am – 09:11 am1h 31m |
24 September 2026 · Thursday | 06:10 – 07:4106:10 am – 07:41 am1h 31m |
25 September 2026 · Friday | 15:13 – 16:4403:13 pm – 04:44 pm1h 30m |
26 September 2026 · Saturday | 13:42 – 15:1201:42 pm – 03:12 pm1h 30m |