Sunrise, brahma muhurta and the lunar day in Mumbai

Maharashtra, India · 19.08°, 72.88° · Asia/Kolkata

Written and reviewed by The Kriya Yogi · Updated 21 September 2026

Friday, November 6, 2026

Brahma muhurta

5:06 AM – 5:54 AM

Sunrise

6:42 AM

Sunset

6:04 PM

Daylight

11h 22m

Lunar day (tithi)

Dvadashi

Fortnight

Waning (krishna)

Moon

Waning crescent · 11% lit

Nakshatra

Hasta

Mumbai's 19° latitude keeps sunrise within about an hour across the year, and its westerly longitude within Indian Standard Time makes clock sunrise later than in Kolkata or Rishikesh.

Mumbai's yoga culture sits within a much broader landscape of devotional and physical practice traditions that have coexisted in the city for generations, from large public gatherings to home-based family practice passed down informally rather than taught in a studio. The city's coastal, humid climate means the air is heavy for most of the year, with a pronounced monsoon season from June through September that brings intense rain and can make outdoor practice genuinely impractical for weeks at a stretch. As noted above, Mumbai's westerly position within Indian Standard Time gives it a later clock sunrise than cities further east in the same country, which is one of the clearer everyday illustrations of how a single time zone spanning a wide country inevitably mismatches the actual solar day at its edges.

The next ten days in Mumbai

Times are local to Mumbai 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	5:06 AM – 5:54 AM	6:42 AM	6:04 PM	11h 22m	DvadashiWaning (krishna)	11% · waning crescent	Hasta
Sat, Nov 7	5:06 AM – 5:54 AM	6:42 AM	6:04 PM	11h 21m	TrayodashiWaning (krishna)	5% · waning crescent	Chitra
Sun, Nov 8	5:07 AM – 5:55 AM	6:43 AM	6:03 PM	11h 20m	ChaturdashiWaning (krishna)	2% · waning crescent	Svati
Mon, Nov 9Amavasya (new moon)	5:07 AM – 5:55 AM	6:43 AM	6:03 PM	11h 20m	AmavasyaWaning (krishna)	0% · new moon	Svati
Tue, Nov 10	5:08 AM – 5:56 AM	6:44 AM	6:03 PM	11h 19m	PratipadaWaxing (shukla)	1% · new moon	Vishakha
Wed, Nov 11	5:08 AM – 5:56 AM	6:44 AM	6:02 PM	11h 18m	DvitiyaWaxing (shukla)	3% · waxing crescent	Anuradha
Thu, Nov 12	5:09 AM – 5:57 AM	6:45 AM	6:02 PM	11h 17m	TritiyaWaxing (shukla)	7% · waxing crescent	Jyeshtha
Fri, Nov 13	5:09 AM – 5:57 AM	6:45 AM	6:02 PM	11h 16m	ChaturthiWaxing (shukla)	13% · waxing crescent	Mula
Sat, Nov 14	5:10 AM – 5:58 AM	6:46 AM	6:01 PM	11h 15m	PanchamiWaxing (shukla)	20% · waxing crescent	Purva Ashadha
Sun, Nov 15	5:11 AM – 5:59 AM	6:47 AM	6:01 PM	11h 15m	ShashthiWaxing (shukla)	28% · waxing crescent	Uttara Ashadha

How far the window moves across the year here

At Mumbai's latitude of 19.1°, the June solstice brings sunrise at roughly 6:03 AM with about 13h 17m of daylight, while the December solstice brings sunrise at roughly 7:08 AM with about 10h 59m. 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 Mumbai

+ What time is brahma muhurta in Mumbai today?

Working back from a computed sunrise of 6:42 AM, the window runs from about 5:06 AM to 5:54 AM local time — 96 to 48 minutes before sunrise. It moves every day with the Sun, so check the table rather than fixing it in your head.

+ Which lunar day is it in Mumbai today?

At local sunrise it is Dvadashi, in the waning (krishna) fortnight, with the Moon about 11% illuminated in Hasta. Tithis run between roughly 19 and 26 hours, so a single date can straddle two; the label here is the one in force at sunrise, which is the usual convention.

+ How much does sunrise move across the year in Mumbai?

At this latitude, the June solstice sunrise falls around 6:03 AM with about 13h 17m of daylight, and the December solstice sunrise around 7:08 AM with about 10h 59m. That spread is exactly why a sunrise-anchored routine and a clock-anchored one diverge.

+ Are these times exact?

Sunrise and sunset are computed for a sea-level horizon and should be within a minute or two of an observatory table; hills, buildings and altitude shift what you actually see. Tithi and nakshatra use truncated lunar series, so near a boundary a full panchanga may label the day differently. Nothing here is intended for ritual muhurta determination.

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.