Brahma Muhurat today in New Delhi

Brahma Muhurat is counted backwards from sunrise, not from the clock, so it opens at a different time in every city and moves a little every day. It is never 4:00 AM by rule; it is 4:00 AM only on the days and in the places where sunrise happens to be at 5:36.

"Brahma" here is the creator and the hour named for him is the last stretch of night. Classical routine puts japa, path, study, meditation and pranayama in it, on the reasoning that the mind is unspent and the world is quiet — not on a claim that the window does anything on its own. It is the one auspicious period that asks nothing of the tithi, the nakshatra or the weekday.

Shubh muhurat today in New Delhi

India keeps one clock across about thirty degrees of longitude, so sunrise in Guwahati is more than an hour ahead of sunrise in Rajkot on the same date and the two cities' Brahma Muhurat differ by the same margin. Season moves it again: the window follows sunrise, so it is earliest in June and latest in January, and it is wider in winter, when the night it is a fifteenth of is longer.

Of the two muhurtas before sunrise, the almanacs name only the first as Brahma Muhurat — 4:46 AM - 5:37 AM today in New Delhi. The second, which runs up to sunrise, is the last watch of the night. This page prints the same window as the full Panchang, so the two can never disagree about the same minutes.

Sunset and sunrise come from the Swiss Ephemeris for this city's coordinates and these dates. The night between them is divided into fifteen equal muhurtas — the night's counterpart of the fifteenths of daylight Abhijit is built from — and Brahma Muhurat is the fourteenth: it opens two muhurtas before sunrise and closes one before it. So it is about 48 minutes near the equinoxes, longer in winter and shorter in summer.