Rahu Kaal Today — Lucknow

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The eight parts of today in Lucknow

Rahu Kaal is not a clock time — it is a share of the daylight. Sunrise to sunset is divided into eight equal parts, and one of them belongs to Rahu, one to Yama and one to Gulika. Today in Lucknow the day runs 06:20 am to 05:21 pm, so each part is about 83 minutes long.

Part boundaries are computed from the same sunrise and sunset as the timings above, so they agree to the minute.

Rahu Kaal by weekday

Which of the eight parts belongs to Rahu is fixed by the weekday, never by the date. That is the whole rule — everything else is arithmetic on your local sunrise and sunset, which is why the clock times differ between cities and drift through the year.

Rahu Kaal, Yamaganda and Gulika are not the same thing

All three are inauspicious day-parts derived the same way, and people often treat them as one. Tradition separates them. Rahu Kaal is the one watched most widely and is specifically a rule about beginnings — it argues against starting, not against continuing. Yamaganda is associated with obstruction and is chiefly avoided for travel and anything you need to arrive on time. Gulika, the portion assigned to Saturn’s son, carries the idea of repetition: whatever is done in it tends to recur, which is why tradition avoids it for funerals, debts and disputes but tolerates it for habits worth repeating.

One more practical note: Rahu Kaal applies to auspicious beginnings, not to ordinary life. Daily work, study, travel already underway, medicines, meals and emergencies are not governed by it in any traditional reading. If something genuinely cannot wait, the usual remedy is to begin it in Abhijit Muhurta on the same day — the short midday window listed above, which tradition treats as overriding most defects.

For the auspicious windows of the same day, see today’s Choghadiya, which divides both day and night into eight and names each one.

Why these timings are specific to Lucknow

Sunrise in Lucknow today is 06:20 am. Every window on this page is a fraction of the interval between local sunrise and sunset, so it moves with the place as well as the date. India keeps one clock, set to the 82.5°E meridian, but Lucknow sits about 1.6° west of it — roughly 6 minutes behind that meridian in solar terms. The sun therefore reaches the same position over Lucknow 6 minutes later than the clock suggests, and each of the eight parts shifts with it. That is why a Rahu Kaal or Choghadiya table copied from one city’s page is simply the wrong table for another, and why this page computes from Lucknow's own coordinates rather than reusing one national set of timings.