Sunrise and Sunset Today — San Francisco
San Francisco, California
Sunrise
The Hindu day and the vara begin here
6:34 pm
Sunset
8:57 am
Moonrise
2:30 am
Moonset
12:33 pm
Brahma Muhurat
The most auspicious window, before sunrise
5:17 pm – 5:55 pm
Why sunrise matters in San Francisco
In the Hindu calendar the day begins at sunrise, not midnight — so the vara (weekday) changes at 6:34 pm in San Francisco, 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 San Francisco’s own latitude and longitude rather than a single reference city.
Today in San Francisco the tithi is Navami and the nakshatra Swati.
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