Planetary horā timings
Horā divides daylight into twelve planetary hours and night into twelve more. The first daytime lord matches the weekday. Mạghā calculates all 24 from your location's sunrise and sunset, so their duration varies through the year.
Day horās of 60 minutes 37 seconds run from sunrise at 06:12: Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury (11:15 to 12:15, current at noon), Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun and Venus. Night horās of 59 minutes 23 seconds run from sunset at 18:19: Mercury, Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars, which hands over to the Sun at 06:12.
12 September · 06:12:0913 September · 06:12:09
- Day horās
- Saturn · 06:12–07:12
- Jupiter · 07:12–08:13
- Mars · 08:13–09:14
- Sun · 09:14–10:14
- Venus · 10:14–11:15
- Mercury · 11:15–12:15
- Moon · 12:15–13:16
- Saturn · 13:16–14:17
- Jupiter · 14:17–15:17
- Mars · 15:17–16:18
- Sun · 16:18–17:19
- Venus · 17:19–18:19
- Night horās
- Mercury · 18:19–19:19
- Moon · 19:19–20:18
- Saturn · 20:18–21:17
- Jupiter · 21:17–22:17
- Mars · 22:17–23:16
- Sun · 23:16–00:15
- Venus · 00:15–01:15
- Mercury · 01:15–02:14
- Moon · 02:14–03:14
- Saturn · 03:14–04:13
- Jupiter · 04:13–05:12
- Mars · 05:12–06:12
The weekday's lord takes the first horā, and the order does the rest
The lords follow the Chaldean order, from the slowest planet to the fastest: Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon. The Sūrya Siddhānta lists the planets in this order and says the regents of the hours run downward from Saturn, with every fourth planet ruling a day.
On the sample Saturday the Sun rose at 06:12, so Saturn held the first horā, to 07:12. Jupiter, Mars, the Sun and Venus followed, then Mercury, whose horā ran from 11:15 to 12:15 and covered noon. The night began at sunset, 18:19, with Mercury again. Twenty-four steps carry the order three places forward, so the last horā, Mars from 05:12, handed over to the Sun at Sunday's sunrise. That three-place jump is why the weekdays run in their familiar order.
Astrologers match the horā's lord to the work at hand
Muhūrta practice links each lord with its own kind of work. Common pairings are Jupiter for teaching and religious rites, Venus for marriage and the arts, Mercury for trade and study, the Moon for travel and the Sun for dealings with authority, while some guides keep Mars horās from auspicious work and Saturn horās from new beginnings. Sources differ on the details, and a horā refines a choice rather than replacing the tithi, nakṣatra and other limbs.
Mạghā tags Jupiter, Venus, Mercury and Moon horās "Supportive" and Sun, Mars and Saturn horās "Cautious", following each planet's natural character. Parāśara counts a waning Moon, and a Mercury joined with malefics, among the malefics, while Mạghā's tags stay fixed by planet through both halves of the month.
Mạghā times each horā from your local sunrise and sunset
Hora schedule lists twelve day and twelve night periods with planetary lords, times and a NOW marker. Dividing daylight and night separately means they are rarely sixty minutes: the sample gives 60m37s by day and 59m23s by night. Mạghā uses centre-of-disc sunrise without refraction. Upper-edge, refracted conventions start September Bengaluru's first horā about 3½ minutes earlier and end the last similarly later; midday periods barely shift.
What people ask about horā timings
How do you calculate horā timings?
Find the local sunrise, sunset and next sunrise. Divide the daylight by 12 for the day horās and the night by 12 for the night horās. The first day horā belongs to the weekday's lord, and each later horā passes to the next planet in the order Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon, carrying on through the night.
Which horā is running now?
Choose your place on Mạghā's Pañchāṅga page and the Hora schedule marks the current horā NOW. By hand, divide the minutes since sunrise by the length of a day horā and take the next whole number; after sunset, count from sunset with the night length. At noon on the sample day, 348 minutes after the 06:12 sunrise, that gives 5.7, so the sixth horā, Mercury's, was running.
Which horā is good for marriage, business or travel?
Common guides favour Venus or Jupiter for marriage, Mercury or Jupiter for business and the Moon or Mercury for travel, though they disagree in places. Mạghā's activity planner credits a window with a Venus, Jupiter or Moon horā for marriage, a Mercury, Jupiter or Venus horā for signing a deal, and a Mercury, Venus, Moon or Jupiter horā for travel, alongside its choghaḍiyā, muhūrta and avoid-window checks.
Is the horā the same as the Horā (D2) chart?
No. The Horā (D2) is a divisional chart: it splits each zodiac sign into two 15° halves and is traditionally studied for wealth. The horā on the Pañchāṅga page is a unit of time, close to an hour, ruled by one of seven planets. A search for "hora chart" can mean either, so check which one a page is showing.
See today's horās for your city
Bengaluru, India · Asia/Kolkata
Mạghā lists all 24 horās for the place you choose, free and without an account. The preview plays the prepared chart for Bengaluru at 12:00 on 12 September 2026, when Mercury's horā was running.
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