Sunrise and Sunset Today — Dar es Salaam
Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam
Sunrise
The Hindu day and the vara begin here
9:06 am
Sunset
8:53 pm
Moonrise
3:04 pm
Moonset
3:53 am
Brahma Muhurat
The most auspicious window, before sunrise
7:28 am – 8:17 am
Why sunrise matters in Dar es Salaam
In the Hindu calendar the day begins at sunrise, not midnight — so the vara (weekday) changes at 9:06 am in Dar es Salaam, not at 12 am. A ritual performed before sunrise still belongs to the previous weekday.
Sunrise also anchors every timing on this site. Rahu Kaal, Yamagandam, Gulika Kaal, Choghadiya and Hora are all fractions of the interval between sunrise and sunset, so a few minutes’ error in sunrise shifts all of them. That is why these are computed from Dar es Salaam’s own latitude and longitude rather than a single reference city.
Today in Dar es Salaam the tithi is Navami and the nakshatra Swati.
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