Today's Panchang: Tithi, Nakshatra, Yoga, Karana
Pick a date and a place. The calculator gives the panchang at sunrise, tithi, nakshatra, yoga and karana with the times they change, sunrise, sunset, moonrise and moonset, the Abhijit, Rahu Kaal, Yamaganda and Gulika periods, and the day's choghadiya.
Guide
What this calculator does
A panchang is the Hindu almanac for one day and one place: the five limbs that name the day, the times the Sun and Moon rise and set, and the periods the tradition marks as favourable or to be avoided. This calculator builds it for any date and any city from the actual positions of the Sun and Moon, with the Lahiri ayanamsa for the nakshatra and yoga, and adds the choghadiya table.
How is the panchang calculated?
- Find sunrise and sunset for the date at the chosen place, and the next sunrise.
- At sunrise, compute the Moon's lead over the Sun: divided by 12° it gives the tithi, by 6° the karana.
- The Moon's sidereal longitude divided by 13°20′ gives the nakshatra; the sum of the Sun's and Moon's sidereal longitudes divided by 13°20′ gives the yoga.
- For each, find the moment the value crosses into the next one: the end time.
- Divide the daytime into eight parts for Rahu Kaal, Yamaganda and Gulika, into fifteen for Abhijit, and the day and night into eight each for the choghadiya.
Worked example
29 October 2026, Mumbai: sunrise 06:37, sunset 18:05, a Thursday, so Rahu Kaal is the sixth eighth of the day (about 13:47 to 15:13) and the day's choghadiya begin with Shubh. The tithi, nakshatra and yoga at sunrise are listed with the times they end; Diwali of that year, 8 November, shows Amavasya.
How to read your result
The first table is the day's identity, what a priest or a printed almanac would name it. The Sun and Moon times are astronomical facts. The muhurtas and choghadiya are conventions: the tradition's way of sorting the day into parts for starting things, shown without any claim about outcomes.
Place data: GeoNames, CC BY 4.0.Updated October 29, 2026