Horā — Kolkata, 18 August 2026

Name: Kolkata Hora timings 18 August 2026 — planetary hours today | AstroAmrit
Creator: AstroAmrit

Tuesday. The 24 planetary hours for Kolkata, computed from the local sunrise and sunset (day and night hours are unequal by season).

Benefic horās today: Venus 07:23–08:27; Mercury 08:27–09:32; Moon 09:32–10:36; Jupiter 11:40–12:44; Venus 14:52–15:56; Mercury 15:56–17:01 (IST). Sunrise 05:15 · sunset 18:05, Kolkata.

Day horās (sunrise → sunset)

Horā lord	Window	Nature
Mars	05:15–06:19	Malefic
Sun	06:19–07:23	Malefic
Venus	07:23–08:27	Benefic
Mercury	08:27–09:32	Benefic
Moon	09:32–10:36	Benefic
Saturn	10:36–11:40	Malefic
Jupiter	11:40–12:44	Benefic
Mars	12:44–13:48	Malefic
Sun	13:48–14:52	Malefic
Venus	14:52–15:56	Benefic
Mercury	15:56–17:01	Benefic
Moon	17:01–18:05	Benefic

Night horās (sunset → next sunrise)

Horā lord	Window	Nature
Saturn	18:05–19:01	Malefic
Jupiter	19:01–19:56	Benefic
Mars	19:56–20:52	Malefic
Sun	20:52–21:48	Malefic
Venus	21:48–22:44	Benefic
Mercury	22:44–23:40	Benefic
Moon	23:40–00:36	Benefic
Saturn	00:36–01:32	Malefic
Jupiter	01:32–02:28	Benefic
Mars	02:28–03:24	Malefic
Sun	03:24–04:19	Malefic
Venus	04:19–05:15	Benefic

Jupiter, Venus, Mercury and the Moon rule the classically benefic hours; the Sun, Mars, Saturn hours are treated as malefic for new undertakings. See also the Kolkata Choghaḍiyā and the full Kolkata panchāṅga for 18 August 2026.

← 2026-08-17 2026–2027 calendar 2026-08-19 →

Where do these fall in your chart? AstroAmrit maps every sky event onto your own birth chart — which house it touches, which of your planets it meets — with every claim cited to the computation behind it.

See these in your chart →

How this table was computed

Method12 day hours (sunrise→sunset) and 12 night hours (sunset→next sunrise), unequal by season; the sequence runs in the Chaldean order starting from the weekday lord's hour (classical derivation); sunrise/sunset from Swiss Ephemeris

SourceSwiss Ephemeris sunrise/sunset (sidereal Lahiri chart context)

Engineastroamrit seo-tables horā (Kolkata 2026-08-18)

AstroAmrit is a glass box: every number on this page is reproducible from the stated method. These are astronomical facts, not predictions. Times are instants of the event's global maximum or exact crossing; your local civil date can differ by one day depending on timezone.