Today's Choghadiya for Elgama — find the best time for important new work, contracts, signing, travel or any major decision. The 8 daytime + 8 nighttime Choghadiya periods (Amrit, Shubh, Labh, Char and more) are anchored at Elgama's exact sunrise and sunset. Add your birth details below to also see your personal Panch Pakshi bird's Ruling & Eating windows and the Super Muhurat — the best time for you when Choghadiya and Panch Pakshi both agree.
| # | Period | Name | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 05:50 AM → 07:24 AM | Shubh | Auspicious |
| 2 | 07:24 AM → 08:58 AM | Rog | Avoid |
| 3 | 08:58 AM → 10:32 AM | Udveg | Avoid |
| 4 | 10:32 AM → 12:06 PM | Char | Auspicious |
| 5 | 12:06 PM → 01:40 PM | Labh | Auspicious |
| 6 | 01:40 PM → 03:14 PM | Amrit | Most Auspicious |
| 7 | 03:14 PM → 04:48 PM | Kal | Avoid |
| 8 | 04:48 PM → 06:22 PM | Shubh | Auspicious |
| — Night periods (after sunset) — | |||
| 1 | 06:22 PM → 07:48 PM | Amrit | Most Auspicious |
| 2 | 07:48 PM → 09:14 PM | Kal | Avoid |
| 3 | 09:14 PM → 10:40 PM | Shubh | Auspicious |
| 4 | 10:40 PM → 12:06 AM | Rog | Avoid |
| 5 | 12:06 AM → 01:32 AM | Udveg | Avoid |
| 6 | 01:32 AM → 02:58 AM | Char | Auspicious |
| 7 | 02:58 AM → 04:24 AM | Labh | Auspicious |
| 8 | 04:24 AM → 05:50 AM | Amrit | Most Auspicious |
The classical Vedic answer to "what is the best time today in Elgama?" is to overlay two systems — Choghadiya (city-wide auspicious / inauspicious time slots) and Panch Pakshi (your personal bird-based schedule). Where both agree, you get the Super Muhurat — the best time in Elgama to sign a contract, launch a venture, start a journey or begin any important new work.
Choghadiya splits each day (sunrise to sunset) and night (sunset to next sunrise) into 8 equal periods of roughly 90 minutes, named in a fixed seven-name cycle. The cycle anchors precisely at Elgama's local sunrise and sunset — not a generic time table. Four are auspicious, three are not:
The first period of each day depends on the weekday lord, and the cycle advances regularly through the 8 day periods and 8 night periods.
Panch Pakshi (Tamil "five birds") personalises Muhurta. Your birth nakshatra plus the lunar fortnight you were born in (Shukla paksha if the moon was waxing, Krishna paksha if waning) assigns you to one of five birds:
Your bird passes through five activity states throughout the day:
Two people on the same Choghadiya schedule in Elgama can have very different "personal good hours" depending on their bird, weekday and paksha.
Super Muhurat is the overlap of both filters. When Choghadiya Amrit or Labh coincides with your bird being in Ruling or Eating, both the universal time-quality and your personal time-quality agree — making it the highest-conviction window in Elgama for:
This page lets you scan the next 5 days at a glance in Elgama, Central, Sri Lanka's exact local clock and DST-aware timezone, with sunrise / sunset computed precisely from latitude and longitude rather than a static city offset.