Chennai — Tuesday, 6 October 2026
Chennai. Sunrise 5:58 am, sunset 5:55 pm — the day runs to sunrise at 5:58 am tomorrow.
The five limbs
Tithi · Krishna Ekadashi
until 12:35 am tomorrow
Nakshatra · Ashlesha
until 10:17 pm
Yoga · Siddha
until 7:20 am
Karana · Bava
until 1:19 pm
Windows
Rahu kalam
2:56 pm – 4:26 pm
Avoid beginning something new. Work already under way is not affected.
Yamagandam
8:57 am – 10:27 am
Not taken for starting a journey or a new undertaking.
Gulikai
11:57 am – 1:26 pm
Generally avoided for beginnings; some households treat it as unrestricted.
About this day
Daylight runs 11 hours 57 minutes, within six minutes of an even twelve — the windows are close to equal.
The tithi runs past midnight and ends after tomorrow's sunrise, so it names two civil days.
The first change today is the yoga, at 7:20 am.
Rahu kalam takes the seventh of the eight parts of daylight on a Tuesday, which puts it at 2:56 pm here.
Rahu kalam, yamagandam and gulikai · how each value is calculated · why the day starts at sunrise
Swiss Ephemeris, Lahiri ayanamsha, at Bengaluru's own horizon. The day runs sunrise to sunrise, so the limb named here is the one running at sunrise. Windows are eighths of the daylight.