Sunrise and Sunset Today — Gold Coast
Gold Coast, Queensland
Sunrise
The Hindu day and the vara begin here
2:04 am
Sunset
12:41 pm
Moonrise
6:42 am
Moonset
8:37 pm
Brahma Muhurat
The most auspicious window, before sunrise
12:17 am – 1:10 am
Why sunrise matters in Gold Coast
In the Hindu calendar the day begins at sunrise, not midnight — so the vara (weekday) changes at 2:04 am in Gold Coast, 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 Gold Coast’s own latitude and longitude rather than a single reference city.
Today in Gold Coast the tithi is Navami and the nakshatra Swati.
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