Most Vedic apps show the same Rahu Kaal for all of India, calculated from a generic IST formula. But Rahu Kaal is 1/8th of the actual daytime from today's sunrise at your location. Chandigarh (76.8°E) at 30.7°N latitude has a 2h04m seasonal sunrise variation, one of India's largest. Summer and winter Rahu Kaal fall at very different clock times. CosmosPandit uses precision astronomy (Jean Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms) to calculate the exact sunrise at Chandigarh's coordinates (30.733300°N, 76.779400°E), giving you the correct Rahu Kaal every day.
Rahu Kaal is the roughly 90-minute window each day ruled by the shadow planet Rahu, traditionally avoided for starting anything new, travel, deals, purchases, or ceremonies. It is the eighth part of the daytime (sunrise to sunset), and which part it falls in is fixed by the weekday, so the clock time shifts daily and by city.
Chandigarh, India's only planned city, designed by Le Corbusier, serves as capital of both Punjab and Haryana. The Mansa Devi temple on the Shivalik hills draws lakhs each Navratri, and the tricity of Chandigarh-Mohali-Panchkula follows Vedic traditions alongside modern life. At 30.7°N, one of India's higher latitudes, Chandigarh has a 2h04m difference between summer and winter sunrise, creating large seasonal variation in Rahu Kaal.
During Rahu Kaal, residents of Chandigarh should hold off on launching new businesses, signing contracts, or starting any fresh venture they want to succeed long term. Important journeys begun in this window tend to carry unnecessary friction, so plan your departures outside this period when you can. Weddings, property registrations, vehicle purchases, and loan agreements are best kept away from Rahu Kaal, as the energy of this time is simply not favorable for commitments you want to last.
What is already in motion can continue without worry, so carry on with your regular work, meetings already underway, and daily professional tasks as normal. This is actually a quietly powerful time for prayer, mantra chanting, and sitting in meditation, especially if you work with the Rahu beej mantra, Om Bhram Bhreem Bhroum Sah Rahave Namah. Planning sessions, research, studying for exams, and thinking through future decisions are all well suited to this window. Routine household chores, errands you do regularly, and any ongoing creative or administrative work flow along just fine during Rahu Kaal.
India uses a single timezone (IST, UTC+5:30) across 30° of longitude. But sunrise follows the sun, not the clock, every 1° of longitude, 4 minutes difference. Kolkata’s sunrise is 80 minutes earlier than Mumbai’s on the same IST day, so Rahu Kaal falls at genuinely different times in each city.
This Rahu Kaal page is just the start. The CosmosPandit app gives every Indian the full Vedic astrology toolkit, in their own language, with timings precise for their city:
Very close, the three cities share nearly the same coordinates. Chandigarh (76.78°E), Mohali (76.73°E), and Panchkula (76.86°E) have under 1-minute sunrise differences. The CosmosPandit app handles each precisely.
Because Chandigarh is at 30.7°N, far north enough that seasonal day-length variation is significant. In June (summer), days are long and sunrise is at 5:24 AM. In December (winter), days are short and sunrise is at 7:28 AM, a 2-hour shift that moves all Muhurat timings accordingly.
Yes. CosmosPandit fully supports Punjabi (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ), all timings, Rashifal, and Panchang in Punjabi Gurmukhi script.
Astronomically precise Rahu Kaal timings for 25 major Indian cities.