Upcoming
Yamagandam
Starts
8:53 AM
Ends
10:17 AM
Inauspicious Period
Yamagandam in Brampton — 11 October 2028
Yamagandam for Brampton, Ontario on 11 October 2028. Change the date from the strip below.
About
What is Yamagandam?
Yamagandam, also written Yama Kandam, Yamakantam or Yama Ghantam, is an inauspicious period of the day named after Yama, the god of death. With Rahu Kaal and Gulika Kalam, it is one of the three main daily windows that South Indian panchang tradition keeps clear of beginnings.
Do not begin new or auspicious work during Yamagandam; wait for it to pass. Work already under way is not affected.
How is Yamagandam calculated?
Like Rahu Kaal, Yamagandam is found by dividing the daytime, from sunrise to sunset, into eight equal parts and giving one part to Yama. Which part depends on the weekday. The timing shifts with your local sunrise, sunset and the season.
- Sunday: 5th part of the day
- Monday: 4th part
- Tuesday: 3rd part
- Wednesday: 2nd part
- Thursday: 1st part (just after sunrise)
- Friday: 7th part
- Saturday: 6th part
What to avoid during Yamagandam
Keep the start of important work out of Yamagandam: setting out on a journey, signing an agreement, a wedding, griha pravesh (house-warming) or a new venture. As with the other inauspicious kalams, ongoing work and daily routine are not considered affected. Only fresh beginnings wait until the window ends.
Local Panchang
Choose Your City
Yamagandam times change with each city's sunrise and sunset. Pick your city to get its local timing.
New Delhi Mumbai Bengaluru Chennai Kolkata Hyderabad Ahmedabad Pune Surat Jaipur Lucknow Kanpur Nagpur Indore Coimbatore Vadodara Bhopal Patna Ludhiana Nashik Madurai Agra Thiruvananthapuram Kochi Visakhapatnam Bhubaneswar Guwahati Chandigarh Amritsar Mysuru Varanasi Ujjain Tirupati Prayagraj Haridwar
New York San Francisco San Jose Los Angeles Chicago Houston Dallas Atlanta Seattle Edison Washington Austin Boston Phoenix Philadelphia Fremont Jersey City Charlotte Raleigh Plano Sunnyvale Irvine San Diego Minneapolis Detroit
FAQ
Yamagandam in Brampton — 11 October 2028: Frequently Asked Questions
Yamagandam, also called Yama Kandam or Yamakantam, is a daily window that tradition counts as inauspicious. It is named after Yama, the god of death. As with Rahu Kaal, auspicious work is not begun in it.
Both are inauspicious daily windows, but they fall at different times. Rahu Kaal is linked to the shadow planet Rahu. Yamagandam is named after Yama, and in jyotisha it is the part of the day given to Jupiter’s sub-planet Yamaghantaka.
About 90 minutes on a 12-hour day. It is one-eighth of the daytime, sunrise to sunset, so it runs longer in summer and shorter in winter. The day of the week decides which eighth.
