Sunrise, brahma muhurta and the lunar day in Houston
Texas, United States · 29.76°, -95.37° · America/Chicago
Written and reviewed by The Kriya Yogi · Updated 21 September 2026
Friday, November 6, 2026
Brahma muhurta
5:04 AM – 5:52 AM
Sunrise
6:40 AM
Sunset
5:32 PM
Daylight
10h 53m
Lunar day (tithi)
Trayodashi
Fortnight
Waning (krishna)
Moon
Waning crescent · 8% lit
Nakshatra
Hasta
Houston's low latitude, just under 30° north, keeps sunrise within about an hour and a half across the whole year — the pre-dawn window stays relatively stable.
Houston's yoga scene sits inside one of the most ethnically diverse metro areas in the country, with a substantial South Asian community that has supported temples, cultural centres and yoga instruction for generations. The defining climate fact for practice here is humidity: Gulf Coast air is thick for much of the year, and even an early pre-dawn session can leave a practitioner soaked in ways a drier climate never would, so hydration and breathable layers matter more than the clock. Hurricane season, roughly June through November, can also disrupt outdoor plans and air quality with little warning, which is one more reason many long-time residents keep their practice space indoors and flexible rather than tied to a particular time or place. The comparatively stable sunrise noted above at least means the daily rhythm itself rarely needs adjusting through the year, even when the weather does.
The next ten days in Houston
Times are local to Houston 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 | 5:04 AM – 5:52 AM | 6:40 AM | 5:32 PM | 10h 53m | TrayodashiWaning (krishna) | 8% · waning crescent | Hasta |
| Sat, Nov 7 | 5:04 AM – 5:52 AM | 6:40 AM | 5:32 PM | 10h 51m | ChaturdashiWaning (krishna) | 3% · waning crescent | Chitra |
| Sun, Nov 8Amavasya (new moon) | 5:05 AM – 5:53 AM | 6:41 AM | 5:31 PM | 10h 50m | AmavasyaWaning (krishna) | 1% · new moon | Svati |
| Mon, Nov 9 | 5:06 AM – 5:54 AM | 6:42 AM | 5:30 PM | 10h 48m | PratipadaWaxing (shukla) | 0% · new moon | Vishakha |
| Tue, Nov 10 | 5:07 AM – 5:55 AM | 6:43 AM | 5:30 PM | 10h 47m | DvitiyaWaxing (shukla) | 1% · waxing crescent | Anuradha |
| Wed, Nov 11 | 5:08 AM – 5:56 AM | 6:44 AM | 5:29 PM | 10h 45m | TritiyaWaxing (shukla) | 5% · waxing crescent | Jyeshtha |
| Thu, Nov 12 | 5:09 AM – 5:57 AM | 6:45 AM | 5:28 PM | 10h 44m | ChaturthiWaxing (shukla) | 10% · waxing crescent | Mula |
| Fri, Nov 13 | 5:09 AM – 5:57 AM | 6:45 AM | 5:28 PM | 10h 43m | ChaturthiWaxing (shukla) | 16% · waxing crescent | Purva Ashadha |
| Sat, Nov 14 | 5:10 AM – 5:58 AM | 6:46 AM | 5:27 PM | 10h 41m | PanchamiWaxing (shukla) | 23% · waxing crescent | Purva Ashadha |
| Sun, Nov 15 | 5:11 AM – 5:59 AM | 6:47 AM | 5:27 PM | 10h 40m | ShashthiWaxing (shukla) | 32% · waxing crescent | Uttara Ashadha |
How far the window moves across the year here
At Houston's latitude of 29.8°, the June solstice brings sunrise at roughly 6:22 AM with about 14h 03m of daylight, while the December solstice brings sunrise at roughly 7:13 AM with about 10h 14m. 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 Houston
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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.