Rahu Kalam today in Columbus
Rahu Kalam is the ninety-minute part of the day in which southern practice begins nothing new. It falls at a different hour each weekday and moves with your local sunrise, so it is calculated here for your own city — together with Yamagandam and Gulikai, the two periods reckoned the same way.
Ninety minutes, from your own sunrise. The day is counted as twelve hours from local sunrise and cut into eight parts; each weekday gives Rahu Kalam a fixed one of them. That is why the hour changes from day to day and from city to city. How it is derived →
Rahu Kalam today — 6:06 PM – 7:36 PM
Columbus, Ohio, United States · Sunday 4 October 2026 · sunrise 7:35 AM
Keep the start of anything new — a journey, a purchase, an agreement — outside this window.
A mixed day: use the suitable windows and keep major beginnings selective.
Sunday carries Krishna Navami, with the Moon in Punarvasu. This combination is best used for restoration, returning to a sound plan and beginning again carefully. Shiva yoga and Garaja karana refine the timing rather than acting as a personal horoscope.
- Abhijit Muhurta is 12:57 PM–1:43 PM
- Gulikai is shown separately as a favourable consolidation window, 4:36 PM–6:06 PM
Take care: Navami is a Rikta tithi, so tradition keeps major new beginnings selective.
Take care: Keep a new start outside Rahu Kalam, 6:06 PM–7:36 PM.
Take care: Avoid commencing a journey during Yamagandam, 1:36 PM–3:06 PM.
This is date-specific Panchang guidance for the selected city. It narrows the day; a marriage, house entry or other major undertaking still needs a purpose-specific muhurta and, where required, the relevant charts.
Rahu Kalam for the next seven days in Columbus
Calculated for the same city from each day’s own sunrise. Which part of the day each period takes is fixed by the weekday; the clock time moves a minute or two across a week as sunrise moves.
| Day | Rahu Kalam | Yamagandam | Gulikai |
|---|---|---|---|
| Today, Sunday 4 Oct | 6:06 PM – 7:36 PM | 1:36 PM – 3:06 PM | 4:36 PM – 6:06 PM |
| Monday 5 Oct | 9:07 AM – 10:37 AM | 12:07 PM – 1:37 PM | 3:07 PM – 4:37 PM |
| Tuesday 6 Oct | 4:38 PM – 6:08 PM | 10:38 AM – 12:08 PM | 1:38 PM – 3:08 PM |
| Wednesday 7 Oct | 1:39 PM – 3:09 PM | 9:09 AM – 10:39 AM | 12:09 PM – 1:39 PM |
| Thursday 8 Oct | 3:10 PM – 4:40 PM | 7:40 AM – 9:10 AM | 10:40 AM – 12:10 PM |
| Friday 9 Oct | 12:11 PM – 1:41 PM | 4:41 PM – 6:11 PM | 9:11 AM – 10:41 AM |
| Saturday 10 Oct | 10:42 AM – 12:12 PM | 3:12 PM – 4:42 PM | 7:42 AM – 9:12 AM |
One part in eight, chosen by the weekday
What Rahu Kalam is
A period of about ninety minutes each day, named for Rahu, the Moon’s north node. In southern practice nothing new is begun during it: no journey started, no significant purchase made, no agreement signed.
It is a rule about beginnings. Ongoing work continues unaffected, and it does not apply to worship.
How it is calculated
The day is counted as twelve hours from local sunrise and cut into eight parts of ninety minutes. Each weekday gives Rahu Kalam a fixed one of the eight — the second on Monday, the eighth on Sunday — so its clock time is set entirely by your sunrise.
This is the reckoning of the printed Thirukanitha almanac our astrologers work from: a nominal twelve-hour day measured from true local sunrise.
Yamagandam and Gulikai
Two further periods derived the same way, each from its own fixed part of the day. Yamagandam is avoided for beginnings much as Rahu Kalam is. Gulikai is the exception — it is read as favourable, and things begun during it are said to recur or endure.
Which is why Gulikai is shown in green on this page. It is commonly mistaken for a third inauspicious period.
Where it sits among the timing tools
Rahu Kalam rules out an hour within a day the panchang has already described. A good choghadiya or hora falling inside it does not clear it, and its presence does not make an otherwise suitable day unsuitable.
Which part of the day, by weekday
The day’s eight parts are counted from sunrise. The part each period takes is fixed for the weekday; only the clock time moves.
| Day | Rahu Kalam segment | Yamagandam | Gulikai |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunday | 8th of 8 | 5th | 7th |
| Monday | 2nd | 4th | 6th |
| Tuesday | 7th | 3rd | 5th |
| Wednesday | 5th | 2nd | 4th |
| Thursday | 6th | 1st | 3rd |
| Friday | 4th | 7th | 2nd |
| Saturday | 3rd | 6th | 1st |
This is why a Rahu Kalam table from another city can mislead. The segments are fixed but their clock times are not: sunrise in Coimbatore is not sunrise in Delhi, and neither is sunrise in Toronto, so the same part of the day lands at a different hour in each.
What Rahu Kalam asks, and what it does not
It asks one thing: that nothing new be begun inside it. A journey, a purchase, an agreement, an inauguration — if the start can be moved by an hour or two, tradition moves it. That is the whole of the rule.
It does not ask anyone to stop. Work already under way continues, meetings are not cancelled, and prayer and worship are not affected. Treating Rahu Kalam as a general ban on activity is a modern over-extension of a narrow rule.
And for anything of real consequence it is one consideration among several. A wedding, a griha pravesh or a business inauguration is timed from the panchang and from the charts of the people involved. The Muhurat Finder does that, and our astrologers calculate individually where it matters.
The other timing tools
Rahu Kalam rules out one window. These describe the day, or choose within it.
One period, several names
Rahu Kalam is the name used across the south; Rahu Kaal is the usual spelling in the north, and Raahu Kaalam the same period written another way. All of them mean the time of Rahu — one of the two lunar nodes, which classical astrology counts among the nine grahas.
What has kept it in daily use is how little it asks. No birth chart and no astrologer are needed: only the weekday and the time of sunrise in your own town. That is also its limit. It names one window to leave alone, and says nothing about which day suits a particular undertaking or person — questions the tradition answers separately.
About Rahu Kalam
Rahu Kalam rules out an hour. A muhurta chooses a day and a moment.
For anything that matters — a marriage, a housewarming, an inauguration, a ritual — the timing is calculated from the panchang and from the charts of the people involved, not from a period of the day. Our astrologers do that individually.