The Triveni Sangam at Prayagraj.
Two rivers you can see, and a third held in faith
Tirtharaj, the king of tirthas, where the Ganga and the Yamuna run side by side before they mix.
This morning
The Sangam, Prayagraj
Running full.
Fuller than usual for this time of year.
1,666 m³/s, 81st percentile since 1997
Modelled for 9 Nov 2026, Copernicus EMS, GloFAS, CC BY 4.0.
Down 9 per cent over seven days
Do your snan hereThe Ganga's main stem below the confluence, so this figure carries the Ganga and the Yamuna together.
Usual for this week
Since 1997, eight of every ten daily values for this week fell between 856 and 1,881 m³/s. The median is 1,169 m³/s.
The last eleven model days
30 Oct 20269 Nov 2026
One bar per day, oldest on the left.
At the ghat
Sunrise
06:15
Sunset
17:16
Read at 12:30 IST. Daylight at the ghat.
More about this morning
- Next window
- Godhuli Muhurat, 17:16 IST
- Sky
- Clear
- Air
- 28.4 °C
- Humidity
- 49%
- Rain, this hour
- 0.0 mm
- Rain today
- 0.0 mm
- Cloud
- 0%
- Wind
- 2.7 km/h
- Grid cell
- 25.375 N, 81.875 E5.4 km from the ghat, on the main stem
- Ghat
- 25.4225 N, 81.8850 E
- Read today
- Copernicus EMS, GloFAS
The flood model published this value today. It runs once a day.
Worked out from this ghat's own sunrise, so it differs from the other five.
Open-Meteo gives no water temperature for these places.
Every week of the year has 609 daily values behind it, 1997 to 2025.
- River
- Triveni Sangam
- Ghat
- The Sangam
- Place
- Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh
- Form of the water
- A confluence, reached by boat
- Local time
- Asia/Kolkata
The place
At Prayagraj the Ganga arrives from the north and the Yamuna from the west. For a stretch the two run side by side without mixing, and the line is visible from a boat: the Yamuna darker and slower, the Ganga paler and quicker. Tradition holds that the Sarasvati joins them here unseen, and the three give the place its name, Triveni, three braids.
Prayag means the place of sacrifice, and the tradition is that Brahma performed a yajna here. The city is called Tirtharaj, king of tirthas. The Magh Mela is held on the sands each year through Magha, and the Kumbh at its twelve-year turn. Some pilgrims keep kalpavas, a month of residence on the sangam sands.
The mela is possible because of what the rivers do in winter. When the flood falls back it leaves a plain of sand between the two channels, and a city is put up on it for a month and taken down again. The calendar of the mela is the calendar of the river, and a late or heavy season moves the ground it stands on. Above the sands the fort holds the Akshayavat, the undying banyan, and an Ashokan pillar.
Shraddha and pind daan at Prayagraj are conducted by the Prayagwal purohits, families who hold the right to officiate by descent and keep pilgrim registers going back generations. The family is present, at the water.
Where the figures come from
One number, taken the same way at all six waters.
The cell this site reads for the Sangam sits on the Ganga main stem below the confluence, so the figure carries the Ganga and the Yamuna together. It is modelled discharge, ranked against that same cell's record for this week of the year from 1997 to 2025. When the winter figure falls, the sands are coming back, and that is the ground the Magh Mela is built on.
Where the figures come from
Flow is modelled river discharge from the Copernicus Emergency Management Service global flood model, read at the grid cell covering this reach and published once a day. It is a model rather than a gauge reading.
Each value is ranked against every daily value that same cell has produced in this same week of the year from 1997 to 2025. That is what the percentile means: one water compared with its own past.
Sunrise, sunset, air temperature and rainfall are read at the ghat's own coordinates rather than at the grid cell. The muhurat windows are the panchang's rules worked out from that sunrise.
Every figure comes from a public source named beside it, and each can be checked against that source.
Attribution
- River discharge: Copernicus Emergency Management Service, GloFAS, served by Open-Meteo, CC BY 4.0.
- Sun and weather: Open-Meteo, CC BY 4.0.
What you find here
The same four things at every water on this site.
The river's flow
Modelled discharge for this reach, in cubic metres a second, ranked against 1997 to 2025 for this same week of the year.
The sunrise
Sunrise and sunset at this ghat's own coordinates, which is why they differ from every other ghat's.
The muhurat windows
Brahma, pratah, abhijit and godhuli, worked out from that sunrise rather than copied from a national table.
The snan
Three minutes with this water at the state it is in, at an hour the panchang names, with your own sankalp in your own words.
What this water is kept for
What people do when they stand at this water. Some of it is centuries older than any of the words on this site.
The dip at the meeting point
Done by the person at the water
Taken out in the stream rather than from a step, because the point where the two waters meet is reached by boat.
Pind daan and tarpan
Done by the person at the water
Conducted at Prayagraj by the Prayagwal purohits, with the family there. The right to officiate for a pilgrim is held by descent, and eligibility for the rite varies by community and by region.
Kalpavas
Done by the person at the water
A month of residence on the sands through Magha, with one meal a day, restraint, and a bath at first light every day. It is a month of a person's life, spent in a tent on a riverbed.
The Magh Mela
Kept by the place itself
A city of canvas laid out on the sands each Magha by the district administration and the akharas, and dismantled when the river returns.
Deep daan
Done by the person at the water
A lamp set on the water at the confluence, usually from the boat that brought you.
Days this ghat is known for
Each is reckoned by tithi or by the sun, as noted beside it. Dated occasions are on the muhurat calendar.
Timing to be confirmed against the panchang
The Magha bathing month
Through the month of Magha
The Magh Mela occupies the sands for the whole month; kalpavasis stay for its duration.
Mauni Amavasya
Amavasya of Magha
The principal bathing day of the Magh Mela, kept in silence by those observing it.
Makar Sankranti
The sun's entry into Makara
The opening bath of the mela, reckoned by the sun and not by a tithi.
Sarva Pitru Amavasya
Amavasya of the dark fortnight of Bhadrapada-Ashvin
The closing day of Pitru Paksha, and the day kept for ancestors whose tithi is not known.
Who looks after this water
The sangam and the mela grounds are held by the Prayagraj district administration together with the Mela Authority, while the ritual right to officiate for pilgrims sits with the Prayagwal purohits. Access at Kumbh is settled months in advance.