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Brahma Muhurat today in Chennai
4:22 AM – 5:12 AM
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Brahma Muhurat in Chennai is 4:22 AM - 5:12 AM today — the last muhurta but one of the night that ends at sunrise 6:01 AM.
Sunrise
6:01 AM
In 5 h 55 m
Abhijit Muhurat
11:29 AM – 12:16 PM
In 11 h 23 m
All times are local to Chennai, computed for Asia/Kolkata (UTC+05:30).
| Period | Time | Nature | Traditionally read as |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brahma Muhurat | 4:22 AM - 5:12 AM | Auspicious | The night's fourteenth muhurta, ending one muhurta before sunrise — japa, path, study and meditation. |
Tomorrow's window is 4:23 AM - 5:12 AM, before sunrise at 6:01 AM. Anyone reading this during the day is asking about tomorrow's, which is why it is on the page rather than one click away.
| Period | Time | Nature | Traditionally read as |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brahma Muhurat | 4:23 AM - 5:12 AM | Auspicious | The night's fourteenth muhurta, ending one muhurta before sunrise — japa, path, study and meditation. |
The window drifts with sunrise, so it is recalculated for Chennai each day. These seven rows stay on this stable URL rather than creating a dated page for every day.
| Date | Brahma Muhurat | Sunrise |
|---|---|---|
| Today | 4:22 AM - 5:12 AM | 6:01 AM |
| 4:23 AM - 5:12 AM | 6:01 AM | |
| 4:23 AM - 5:12 AM | 6:01 AM | |
| 4:23 AM - 5:12 AM | 6:01 AM | |
| 4:23 AM - 5:12 AM | 6:02 AM | |
| 4:23 AM - 5:13 AM | 6:02 AM | |
| 4:24 AM - 5:13 AM | 6:02 AM |
- Against New Delhi. Sunrise in Chennai today is at 6:01 AM, 28 minutes earlier than New Delhi (6:29 AM); sunset is at 5:44 PM, 3 minutes later than New Delhi (5:41 PM). Longitude: Chennai lies 3.1° east of Delhi, so local noon comes 12 minutes sooner (11:53 AM against 12:05 PM). Latitude: Chennai lies 15.5° south of Delhi, and from the September equinox to the March one, days run longer the further south you go; today's daylight here is 32 minutes longer (11 hours 43 minutes against 11 hours 11 minutes), which pulls sunrise earlier and pushes sunset later by about 16 minutes each.
- How long Brahma Muhurat lasts. It is a fifteenth of the night that ends at sunrise: this morning's night was 12 hours 16 minutes, so the muhurta was 49 minutes. It is counted back from sunrise, so it moves with it: over the next week sunrise here moves 2 minutes later (6:01 AM to 6:03 AM).
- Local noon. Midway between sunrise and sunset, Chennai's noon falls at 11:53 AM today, 7 minutes before 12:00 on the clock. Chennai lies 2.2° west of the 82.5° E meridian its clock keeps, which makes noon 9 minutes late; the time of year (the equation of time) takes off 16 minutes today. Abhijit Muhurat is centred on this moment, not on twelve o'clock.
- Day length. Chennai has 11 hours 43 minutes of daylight today, against 11 hours 48 minutes a week ago and 11 hours 39 minutes a week from now: the days here are getting shorter by about 4 minutes a week, and will until the shortest day, around 21 December. In 2026 the longest day is 12 hours 54 minutes (around 21 June) and the shortest 11 hours 22 minutes (around 21 December), a swing of 1 hour 32 minutes, less than New Delhi's 3 hours 39 minutes.
- The year's extremes. The earliest sunrise of 2026 is 5:41 AM (around 31 May) and the latest 6:36 AM (around 24 January); the earliest sunset is 5:39 PM (around 19 November) and the latest 6:40 PM (around 9 July). None falls on a solstice: the Sun's clock time drifts through the year, so the latest mornings come weeks after the shortest day.
- The overhead Sun. Chennai lies 13.1° north of the equator, south of the Tropic of Cancer, so the noon Sun stands directly overhead twice a year: around 25 April and 18 August in 2026. On those two days an upright pole casts almost no shadow at local noon.
- The calendar here. Tamil Nadu keeps a solar calendar: today is day 10 of Aippasi in the Tamil calendar. The lunar day is Krishna Pratipada, in Ashwin counted new moon to new moon and in Kartika counted full moon to full moon.
- Nearest cities. Tirupati (110 km north-west) — sunrise 4 minutes later; Puducherry (136 km south) — sunrise 1 minute later.
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.
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 — 4:22 AM - 5:12 AM today in Chennai. 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.
Brahma Muhurat: common questions
What is the Brahma Muhurat time today in Chennai?
Brahma Muhurat in Chennai is 4:22 AM - 5:12 AM today, before sunrise at 6:01 AM.
What is the Brahma Muhurat time tomorrow in Chennai?
Tomorrow's window is 4:23 AM - 5:12 AM. It shifts by a few minutes each day because sunrise does.
What is Brahma Muhurat?
The fourteenth of the night's fifteen muhurtas: it opens two muhurtas before sunrise and closes one before it. A muhurta here is a fifteenth of the night, so the window is longer in winter and shorter in summer as well as moving with sunrise.
Is Brahma Muhurat always at 4 AM in Chennai?
No. It is counted backwards from sunrise, not from the clock. Sunrise in Chennai is 6:01 AM today, so the window is 4:22 AM - 5:12 AM, and it moves through the year with sunrise.
What should be done in Brahma Muhurat?
Japa, path, study, meditation and pranayama. It is the one auspicious period that asks nothing of the tithi, the nakshatra or the weekday, which is why it is the window a daily practice is usually anchored to.
Why do some sites show a different Brahma Muhurat time?
Some take the muhurta as a fixed 48 minutes in every season, or print both muhurtas up to sunrise. This page, the full Panchang, AstroSage and Drik Panchang all take a fifteenth of the night — 4:22 AM - 5:12 AM today.
Delhi and every major city on one page: Brahma Muhurat today.
Brahma Muhurat is a property of a place, because sunrise is. Pick your city rather than using Delhi's time.
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