Sunrise and Sunset Today — Sugar Land
Sugar Land, Texas
Sunrise
The Hindu day and the vara begin here
5:06 pm
Sunset
6:51 am
Moonrise
1:22 am
Moonset
11:27 am
Brahma Muhurat
The most auspicious window, before sunrise
3:44 pm – 4:25 pm
Why sunrise matters in Sugar Land
In the Hindu calendar the day begins at sunrise, not midnight — so the vara (weekday) changes at 5:06 pm in Sugar Land, 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 Sugar Land’s own latitude and longitude rather than a single reference city.
Today in Sugar Land the tithi is Navami and the nakshatra Swati.
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