Sunrise, brahma muhurta and the lunar day in Denver
Colorado, United States · 39.74°, -104.99° · America/Denver
Written and reviewed by The Kriya Yogi · Updated 21 September 2026
Friday, November 6, 2026
Brahma muhurta
4:59 AM – 5:47 AM
Sunrise
6:35 AM
Sunset
4:54 PM
Daylight
10h 19m
Lunar day (tithi)
Trayodashi
Fortnight
Waning (krishna)
Moon
Waning crescent · 7% lit
Nakshatra
Hasta
Denver's altitude means the true visible sunrise can arrive slightly earlier than a sea-level calculation suggests; the figures below use the standard sea-level horizon.
Denver sits at roughly 5,280 feet of elevation, and that thin, dry mountain air changes practice in a few concrete ways: pranayama and any breath-retention work can feel noticeably more demanding here than at sea level until the body adjusts, and the dry climate means hydration before and after practice matters more than the temperature alone would suggest. The city has a strong outdoor and mountain-adjacent yoga culture, with practice sessions held at elevation in the surrounding foothills a genuine local tradition rather than a novelty. Winters bring real cold and occasional heavy snow that can make an unheated room uncomfortable for seated stillness without a blanket or extra layer, while the high, clear air typical of a Front Range morning often makes for a strikingly vivid, cold sunrise once the pre-dawn window arrives.
The next ten days in Denver
Times are local to Denver and recalculated every time this page loads. The lunar day shown is the one in force at local sunrise.
| Date | Brahma muhurta | Sunrise | Sunset | Daylight | Tithi | Moon | Nakshatra |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri, Nov 6 | 4:59 AM – 5:47 AM | 6:35 AM | 4:54 PM | 10h 19m | TrayodashiWaning (krishna) | 7% · waning crescent | Hasta |
| Sat, Nov 7 | 5:00 AM – 5:48 AM | 6:36 AM | 4:53 PM | 10h 17m | ChaturdashiWaning (krishna) | 3% · waning crescent | Chitra |
| Sun, Nov 8Amavasya (new moon) | 5:01 AM – 5:49 AM | 6:37 AM | 4:52 PM | 10h 14m | AmavasyaWaning (krishna) | 1% · new moon | Svati |
| Mon, Nov 9 | 5:02 AM – 5:50 AM | 6:38 AM | 4:51 PM | 10h 12m | PratipadaWaxing (shukla) | 0% · new moon | Vishakha |
| Tue, Nov 10 | 5:04 AM – 5:52 AM | 6:40 AM | 4:50 PM | 10h 10m | DvitiyaWaxing (shukla) | 2% · waxing crescent | Anuradha |
| Wed, Nov 11 | 5:05 AM – 5:53 AM | 6:41 AM | 4:49 PM | 10h 08m | TritiyaWaxing (shukla) | 5% · waxing crescent | Jyeshtha |
| Thu, Nov 12 | 5:06 AM – 5:54 AM | 6:42 AM | 4:48 PM | 10h 06m | ChaturthiWaxing (shukla) | 10% · waxing crescent | Mula |
| Fri, Nov 13 | 5:07 AM – 5:55 AM | 6:43 AM | 4:47 PM | 10h 04m | ChaturthiWaxing (shukla) | 16% · waxing crescent | Purva Ashadha |
| Sat, Nov 14 | 5:08 AM – 5:56 AM | 6:44 AM | 4:46 PM | 10h 02m | PanchamiWaxing (shukla) | 24% · waxing crescent | Purva Ashadha |
| Sun, Nov 15 | 5:09 AM – 5:57 AM | 6:45 AM | 4:46 PM | 10h 00m | ShashthiWaxing (shukla) | 32% · waxing crescent | Uttara Ashadha |
How far the window moves across the year here
At Denver's latitude of 39.7°, the June solstice brings sunrise at roughly 5:33 AM with about 14h 59m of daylight, while the December solstice brings sunrise at roughly 7:18 AM with about 9h 21m. Both figures are computed for this location, not averaged from anywhere else. If the pre-dawn window is out of reach in one half of the year, the tradition's own priority applies: Patanjali's guidance (Yoga Sutras 1.14) is that practice takes hold through long, uninterrupted, earnest attention — consistency first, ideal hour second.
In practice, most people who keep an early routine here do not chase the brahma muhurta window exactly on the days when it falls hardest against their sleep or their working hours. A workable pattern is to pick a fixed clock time that lands inside the window for most of the year, adjust it by a season if the drift becomes extreme, and treat the days it falls slightly outside the ideal 96-to-48-minute band as still worthwhile rather than wasted — the texts describe brahma muhurta as favorable, not as the only valid hour. Seated meditation, pranayama and a short asana warm-up all transfer reasonably well between a strict pre-dawn slot and a slightly later one; what tends to break a habit is not timing drift but skipping the day entirely because the ideal moment has already passed.
Practice timing in Denver
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Method
- Sunrise, solar noon and sunset: the standard sunrise equation, using the −0.833° altitude convention for the apparent upper limb and refraction at a sea-level horizon.
- Lunar day and nakshatra: solar and lunar ecliptic longitudes from truncated Meeus series (Jean Meeus, "Astronomical Algorithms"), with tithi as 12° steps of elongation and nakshatra as 13°20′ steps of sidereal longitude under a linear Lahiri-style ayanamsa approximation.
- Brahma muhurta: the 48-minute muhurta ending one muhurta before sunrise. Conventions vary between teachers; this is the most common arithmetic definition.
- Not for ritual muhurta determination — for that, use a panchanga computed within your own tradition.
Timing guidance on this page is traditional and practical, not medical. Nothing here is a religious ruling or a substitute for a panchanga from your own lineage.