Today's panchang

The complete panchang for any date and place: every tithi, nakshatra, yoga and karana from sunrise to the next sunrise with start and end times, sunrise and moonrise, Rahu Kaal, Yamaganda and Gulika, Abhijit and Brahma muhurta, choghadiya and hora, the lunar month and samvat, and a month calendar with Ekadashi, Purnima, Amavasya and Sankranti marked.

What the panchang shows

Tithi is a lunar day: each tithi is 12° of the Moon's lead over the Sun, and there are 30 in a lunar month. Nakshatra is the Moon's position in one of 27 sidereal segments of 13°20′. Yoga divides the sum of the sidereal Sun and Moon the same way, and karana is half a tithi. Because the panchang day runs from sunrise to the next sunrise, a day can hold two tithis or nakshatras; each is listed with the time it ends.

Auspicious and inauspicious windows

Rahu Kaal, Yamaganda and Gulika Kaal each take one eighth of the daytime, in a part fixed by the weekday. Abhijit is the eighth of the fifteen daytime muhurtas, around local noon, and Brahma muhurta is the second-last muhurta of the night before sunrise. Durmuhurta lists the muhurtas traditionally avoided on each weekday. Read the articles on Rahu Kaal, Abhijit and choghadiya for the background.

Choghadiya and hora

Choghadiya divides the day and the night into eight periods each, named Amrit, Shubh, Labh, Char, Udveg, Rog and Kaal in a sequence fixed by the weekday. Hora divides them into twelve each, ruled by the grahas in the traditional Chaldean order, starting with the lord of the weekday at sunrise.

Month, samvat and calendar

The lunar month is named from the Sun's sign at the new moon that begins it (amanta), and the purnimanta name used in much of North India is shown too. The month calendar marks Ekadashi, Purnima, Amavasya, Chaturthi, Pradosh and Sankranti from the tithi at sunrise; festival dates follow community rules, so check your family almanac for those.

Place, time zone and ayanamsa

Choose any Indian town or major world city; times are local, including daylight saving abroad. Lahiri is the default ayanamsa, used by the Indian national calendar; Raman and KP are offered for schools that follow them. Tithi and karana times do not depend on the ayanamsa; nakshatra, yoga and the signs do. Every formula is on the method page.