Panchāṅgam
Today’s Panchāṅgam
The almanac for the day, computed for your own location rather than reprinted from one calculated somewhere else. Choose a place and a date and you get the five limbs with the time each of them ends, sunrise, sunset, moonrise and moonset, and the traditional daily windows worked out from that location’s own sunrise.
This is a reference, not a decision. It states what a day is. It does not say a day is good or bad for your ceremony, and it does not evaluate your family’s tradition, the rules that belong to a particular rite, or anybody’s birth details. If your question is when should we hold this?, the muhūrtham finder is built for it — and the muhūrtham itself is fixed by Sri Kumar Naganathan Gurukkal, not by this website.
The day
Sri Kumar Gurukkal fixes the muhūrtham for your family. This page gives you the almanac to arrive at that conversation with; the finder will show you which windows on which days are clear of the restricted periods, and why.
The next thirty days
Tithi, nakṣatra, sunrise and Rāhu Kālam for each day from the date shown. For the full detail of any one day, set the date above.
Keep the calendar rather than the page
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Common questions
What is a Panchāṅgam?
Pañcāṅga means "five limbs". A Panchāṅgam is not a horoscope and not a list of predictions — it is an almanac that states five measurable things about a day: the weekday (vāra), the lunar day (tithi), the Moon's constellation (nakṣatra), and two quantities derived from the positions of the Sun and Moon together (yoga and karaṇa). Everything else on this page follows from those five and from sunrise.
Why is the Panchāṅgam different in the Bay Area from the one in India?
Because almost every element is anchored to sunrise, and sunrise is local. A tithi that is running at sunrise in Chennai may already have ended by sunrise in California, which is why an almanac printed in India can put a festival on a different day from the one it falls on here. Rāhu Kālam is one eighth of the day between sunrise and sunset, so it moves with them too. This page computes for the location you choose, in that location's own timezone, with daylight saving handled automatically.
What are Rāhu Kālam, Yamagaṇḍam and Durmuhūrtam?
They are periods traditionally set aside for beginning something new. Each is a fixed division of the day between sunrise and sunset that moves with the weekday: Rāhu Kālam and Yamagaṇḍam are one eighth of the day, a Durmuhūrtam is one fifteenth. They are not periods in which nothing may happen — they are periods in which a new undertaking is not traditionally begun. What that means for your own ceremony is a question for Sri Kumar Gurukkal.
Does this page choose an auspicious time for my ceremony?
No. This page is a reference: it states what a day is and makes no recommendation about it. If your question is "when should we hold this?", the muhūrtham finder takes a ceremony and a date range and offers windows, naming every rule it applied and every element it does not evaluate. Either way the muhūrtham itself is fixed by Sri Kumar Naganathan Gurukkal, not by this website.
How accurate are these times?
The solar figures — sunrise, sunset and everything derived from them — agree with an independently written implementation of the NOAA solar position algorithm to better than a tenth of a minute, checked on every build across nine dates and locations including both daylight-saving transitions and a leap day. The lunar figures are checked against physical constraints rather than against another almanac: the tithi and nakṣatra spans must tile the year without gap or overlap and must average a synodic and a sidereal month respectively. Sub-arcminute lunar accuracy is not demonstrated and this site does not claim it. See the methodology page.
Do you use the same convention as other Panchāṅgams?
This site uses the Drik (observation-based) convention with the Lahiri (Chitrapakṣa) ayanāṃśa. A difference of a few minutes from another almanac is normal; a difference of a day usually means a different convention rather than an error. Where a date matters to your family, confirm it with Gurukkal.
Computed in your own browser from the algorithms cited on the methodology page, using the Drik (observation-based) convention with the Lahiri (Chitrapakṣa) ayanāṃśa. Locations available: Pleasanton, CA, Dublin, CA, San Ramon, CA, Livermore, CA, Fremont, CA, Milpitas, CA, San Jose, CA, Santa Clara, CA, Sunnyvale, CA, San Francisco, CA, Sacramento, CA and Stockton, CA. Nothing you choose here is sent anywhere or stored. A difference of a few minutes from another Panchāṅgam is normal; a difference of a day usually means a different convention rather than an error, and where a date matters to your family, confirm it with Gurukkal.