Panchang for Today & Any Date

A panchang has five limbs (anga): tithi (the lunar day), vara (the weekday), nakshatra (the Moon's mansion), yoga (a Sun-Moon combination) and karana (half of a tithi). Together they describe the astrological quality of a day; this page computes all five for your city and any date.

A tithi is a lunar day — the time the Moon needs to move 12° ahead of the Sun. There are 30 tithis in a lunar month, split into the bright half (Shukla Paksha, new moon to full) and the dark half (Krishna Paksha, full moon to new). A tithi averages about 0.95 solar days, so its end time shifts daily — the panchang lists it to the minute.

The day's nakshatra is the lunar mansion the Moon occupies at sunrise; it changes roughly once a day as the Moon crosses each 13°20′ segment of the zodiac. Select your city and date above — the timeline shows the running nakshatra with its exact start and end times, and the one that follows.

Rahu Kaal is one-eighth of the time between local sunrise and sunset, and its slot depends on the weekday — from the second eighth of the day on Monday to the last on Sunday. Because it is tied to your local sunrise, its clock time differs by city and season; this page computes the exact window for your location, alongside Yamaganda and Gulika Kala.

A civil calendar counts uniform solar days; a panchang tracks five astronomical cycles at once, all measured from your local sunrise. The same date therefore carries different panchang data in Delhi and New York, and elements such as the tithi or nakshatra can begin and end at any hour of the civil day.

The paksha follows the tithi number: the fifteen tithis after the new moon form Shukla Paksha, the waxing bright half, and the fifteen after the full moon form Krishna Paksha, the waning dark half. The tithi card above shows the current paksha for your selected date and time.