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Sunrise, brahma muhurta and the lunar day in Vancouver

British Columbia, Canada · 49.28°, -123.12° · America/Vancouver

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

Friday, November 6, 2026

Brahma muhurta

6:33 AM – 7:21 AM

Sunrise

8:09 AM

Sunset

5:45 PM

Daylight

9h 35m

Lunar day (tithi)

Trayodashi

Fortnight

Waning (krishna)

Moon

Waning crescent · 7% lit

Nakshatra

Hasta

At 49.3° north, Vancouver has the widest seasonal swing of the cities listed here — and the surrounding mountains delay the visible sunrise beyond the computed time.

Vancouver's yoga and mindfulness culture draws on the city's close relationship with the surrounding mountains and coastline, and outdoor or nature-adjacent practice is a well-established local habit whenever weather allows. The Pacific Northwest's wet season, running roughly October through March, brings persistent rain and heavy cloud cover that can make the computed sunrise almost irrelevant to how bright it actually feels outside, while summers are dry, mild and genuinely long, with light lingering well into the evening. As noted above, the surrounding mountains delay the visible sunrise beyond the flat-horizon calculation, so anyone practicing in a valley or below a ridge line should expect first light later than the table suggests, particularly in winter when the sun rises at a shallower angle.

The next ten days in Vancouver

Times are local to Vancouver and recalculated every time this page loads. The lunar day shown is the one in force at local sunrise.

DateBrahma muhurtaSunriseSunsetDaylightTithiMoonNakshatra
Fri, Nov 66:33 AM – 7:21 AM8:09 AM5:45 PM9h 35mTrayodashiWaning (krishna)7% · waning crescentHasta
Sat, Nov 76:35 AM – 7:23 AM8:11 AM5:43 PM9h 32mChaturdashiWaning (krishna)3% · waning crescentChitra
Sun, Nov 8Amavasya (new moon)6:37 AM – 7:25 AM8:13 AM5:42 PM9h 29mAmavasyaWaning (krishna)0% · new moonSvati
Mon, Nov 96:38 AM – 7:26 AM8:14 AM5:40 PM9h 26mPratipadaWaxing (shukla)0% · new moonVishakha
Tue, Nov 106:40 AM – 7:28 AM8:16 AM5:39 PM9h 23mDvitiyaWaxing (shukla)2% · waxing crescentAnuradha
Wed, Nov 116:41 AM – 7:29 AM8:17 AM5:37 PM9h 20mTritiyaWaxing (shukla)5% · waxing crescentJyeshtha
Thu, Nov 126:43 AM – 7:31 AM8:19 AM5:36 PM9h 17mChaturthiWaxing (shukla)10% · waxing crescentMula
Fri, Nov 136:45 AM – 7:33 AM8:21 AM5:35 PM9h 14mPanchamiWaxing (shukla)17% · waxing crescentPurva Ashadha
Sat, Nov 146:46 AM – 7:34 AM8:22 AM5:33 PM9h 11mPanchamiWaxing (shukla)24% · waxing crescentUttara Ashadha
Sun, Nov 156:48 AM – 7:36 AM8:24 AM5:32 PM9h 08mShashthiWaxing (shukla)33% · waxing crescentUttara Ashadha

How far the window moves across the year here

At Vancouver's latitude of 49.3°, the June solstice brings sunrise at roughly 5:08 AM with about 16h 15m of daylight, while the December solstice brings sunrise at roughly 9:06 AM with about 8h 11m. 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 Vancouver

+ What time is brahma muhurta in Vancouver today?
Working back from a computed sunrise of 8:09 AM, the window runs from about 6:33 AM to 7:21 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 Vancouver today?
At local sunrise it is Trayodashi, in the waning (krishna) fortnight, with the Moon about 7% 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 Vancouver?
At this latitude, the June solstice sunrise falls around 5:08 AM with about 16h 15m of daylight, and the December solstice sunrise around 9:06 AM with about 8h 11m. 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.