⏰ Chicago, Illinois
A good Muhurat in Chicago depends on the Tithi, Nakshatra, weekday and your own Rashi, and on avoiding Rahu Kaal on the day itself. Pick the event and month below to get a short list of favourable dates.
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Once you have a good date, pick the time of day using Chicago's own sunrise: avoid Rahu Kaal, and if you can, start during the Abhijit Muhurat around local midday. Both are shown below for today and change a few minutes each day. Times are in Central Standard Time (UTC−6).
| Day (Vara) | Ravivar (Sunday) |
|---|---|
| Tithi at sunrise | Krishna Ashtami until Mon 2 Nov, 1:41 AM |
| Nakshatra | Pushya (pada 3) until Sun 1 Nov, 5:00 PM |
| Sunrise / Sunset | 6:23 AM / 4:44 PM |
| Rahu Kaal (avoid) | 3:27 PM – 4:44 PM |
| Abhijit Muhurat (good) | 11:13 AM – 11:54 AM |
All times are Chicago local time (Central Standard Time, UTC−6). Calculated from Chicago's own sunrise with the Lahiri ayanamsa.
Start and end times are in Chicago time. A vrat is usually kept on the day the Tithi is running at sunrise; your family or temple tradition may differ.
Daylight in Chicago today lasts 10 h 22 min. Over the year it ranges from about 9 h 8 min to 15 h 14 min, so Rahu Kaal here is anywhere from 68 to 114 minutes long, and every daytime Muhurat stretches and shrinks with the seasons.
Sunrise in Chicago today is 6:23 AM, 33 minutes earlier on the clock than in Atlanta (948 km away). Even nearby cities need their own Panchang.
On 1 November the sunrise Tithi in Chicago is Krishna Ashtami; in Delhi it is Krishna Saptami. This is why a vrat date from an Indian calendar can be a day off in Chicago.
Chicago is on Central Standard Time (UTC−6), 11 h 30 min behind India.
Chicago uses daylight saving time, so the gap to India changes during the year:
If you were born in Chicago, enter your birth time exactly as it is written on your birth certificate. That is the local clock time, already including summer time if it applied, and the birthplace tells the calculation which time zone to use.
Chicago's Devon Avenue has been the heart of Indian life in the Midwest for decades, and the Sri Venkateswara Swami (Balaji) Temple in Aurora is one of the region's main temples. Central Time is 10 h 30 min to 11 h 30 min behind India, so festival dates often fall a day earlier than the Indian calendar suggests.
Today in Chicago it is 11:13 AM – 11:54 AM. It is the eighth of the fifteen daytime muhurtas, centred on local noon.
It helps. If you do not know your Moon sign, a Kundli reading will tell you, or use the Rashi of the person doing the ceremony.
The good dates are usually similar, but the clock times are not. Sunrise, Rahu Kaal and Abhijit Muhurat must be worked out for Chicago. This page shows them in Chicago local time.
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