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Hora Calculator: 24 Planetary Hours by Location

Find the twelve daylight and twelve nighttime Horas for a local date and place. Sunrise starts the planetary day; the following sunrise ends it.

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Date and location

Use the coordinates of the place where the timing matters. Enter the fixed UTC offset that applies on the selected date.

Example: New Delhi, India. The offset is a manual clock setting; this form does not look up time-zone rules or daylight-saving changes.

Read the table

The first Hora after sunrise belongs to the planet that names the weekday. On Sunday it is the Sun; on Monday it is the Moon. Subsequent rulers follow the seven-name sequence Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, looping through the night. The selected weekday continues until the following sunrise, even when the civil clock passes midnight.

Daylight and darkness are each divided into twelve equal parts, so a summer daylight Hora can be longer than a night Hora. On a date near an equinox they may be closer in length. The result shows local clock boundaries, while the CSV also retains unrounded UTC instants. Read the calculation guide for a worked sequence.

Hora is one layer of timing

Hora assigns a traditional planetary ruler to an interval. Choghadiya divides the same day and night into eight parts each, and Rahu Kalam selects one daylight eighth by weekday. They are separate tables; matching their clock ranges by name alone would give a wrong comparison. A ruler's traditional association is a label for the interval, not a measured chance of success.

References: Drik Panchang Hora table; Hāyanaratna planetary sequence; Astronomy Engine rise/set calculation.