Rahu Kaal Today in Kannur

Rahu Kaal in Kannur tomorrow and this week

Tomorrow (Thursday, 12 November) Rahu Kaal in Kannur runs from 1:40 PM to 3:07 PM. The week chart below uses each day's actual sunrise and sunset for Kannur, so the windows drift by a minute or two through the week.

Yamaganda, Gulika Kaal and Abhijit Muhurat today in Kannur

Three other daily windows are read alongside Rahu Kaal. Today (Wednesday): Yamaganda 7:52 AM – 9:19 AM (avoid for new starts, like Rahu Kaal), Gulika Kaal 10:46 AM – 12:13 PM (whatever is begun tends to repeat — avoid for anything you would not want repeated), and Abhijit Muhurat 11:50 AM – 12:36 PM, the auspicious midday window (not observed on Wednesdays in most traditions). All are one-eighth (or one-fifteenth, for Abhijit) of Kannur's daylight, so they shift with the local sunrise.

How Rahu Kaal is calculated for Kannur

The span from sunrise to sunset is divided into eight equal parts; the part ruled by Rahu depends on the weekday. On a Wednesday, Rahu rules segment 5 — which is why today's window in Kannur is 12:13 PM–1:40 PM. Because it follows the local sun, Kannur's Rahu Kaal differs from every other city's and shifts slightly each day.

What Rahu Kaal actually asks of you

Rahu Kaal is not a period of danger; it is a period classically set aside for beginnings. Work already under way continues untouched — a running business, a journey mid-route, treatment already started. What the tradition asks is that you do not start something in this window: signing, launching, the first step of a journey, a purchase you intend to keep.

Two exceptions are long-standing and worth knowing. Anything urgent or medical is never postponed for Rahu Kaal — the tradition does not ask anyone to delay care. And ongoing daily worship, japa and mantra are unaffected; several traditions consider this window suitable for Rahu-related remedies precisely because it is his hour.

If the window falls badly for something that cannot be moved, the practical answer in Kannur is the one a Panchang gives: use the segments table above to find the nearest clear span on either side, since the day is divided into eight equal parts between local sunrise and sunset.

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