Vedic calendar
Today's panchang for your city
Today's panchang for your city: the five limbs of the Hindu calendar (tithi, vara, nakshatra, yoga and karana), each with the time it ends, plus sunrise and sunset. Pick your city and every time is for its local time zone, on the Lahiri ayanamsa.
How to read your panchang
- Next to the tithi, nakshatra, yoga and karana is the time each one ends. After that the next one starts.
- All times are in the time zone of the city you picked. Another city can differ.
- This is the same for everyone in that city and is not based on your chart. Dates tied to your charts are in the next step below.
What is Panchang?
Panchang is the foundation of the Vedic calendar with five limbs: Tithi (lunar day), Vara (weekday), Nakshatra (Moon's position), Yoga (Sun-Moon combination) and Karana (half tithi). By tradition, all five are checked before an auspicious task.
Tithi
The angle between Moon and Sun; a new tithi every 12 degrees.
Vara
Day of the week; each day has a planetary ruler.
Nakshatra
Moon's current position among the 27 lunar mansions.
Yoga
Sum of the longitudes of Sun and Moon, divided into 27 parts.
Karana
Half a tithi. There are two karanas in each day.
Common misreadings of a panchang
A common misreading treats a general panchang (today's tithi, nakshatra, yoga for a chosen city) as personalized astrological guidance. It's a location-based Vedic calendar reading, the same for anyone in that city on that day, not a prediction based on your own birth chart. Rashifal and a personal muhurat additionally weigh your own natal chart.
A second misreading assumes panchang values are the same, clock-independent facts everywhere. Tithi, nakshatra and yoga changes happen at a specific moment in time, not at midnight, and that moment is computed against a specific location's coordinates. The same calendar date can show a different tithi-change time, or even a different tithi near a boundary, in Delhi versus a diaspora city like Toronto.
A third misreading assumes the panchang day matches the Gregorian calendar day one-to-one. A tithi, nakshatra, or yoga can start partway through one Gregorian day and end partway through the next, so a single calendar date's panchang page reports the values active at a defined reference point (commonly sunrise), not values that hold uniformly for all 24 hours.
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FAQ
Questions about panchang
Why does panchang change every day? +
Tithi, nakshatra, yoga, and karana all track the Moon and Sun as they move, and that motion shifts a little every day. So panchang changes daily, and also changes slightly by city.
Does panchang differ by city? +
Yes. The exact moment a tithi or nakshatra changes depends on a city’s latitude, longitude, and time zone, so two cities can show slightly different panchang on the same calendar day.
What role does panchang play in picking a muhurat? +
Any auspicious muhurat is fixed by weighing all five limbs together; for example, a Rikta tithi or a Bhadra karana is typically avoided for new beginnings.
What does the "(upto HH:MM)" next to tithi/nakshatra/yoga/karana mean? +
That is the end time for that limb: the current tithi/nakshatra/yoga/karana runs until that moment, then the next one starts. Times are shown in your selected city's time zone. Vara (weekday) has no end field because its end is trivially local midnight.
What is the difference between Vikram and Shaka Samvat? +
Both are Indian panchang years; only the epoch differs. Vikram Samvat runs 57 years ahead of the Gregorian year (2026-27 = Vikram 2083); Shaka Samvat runs 78 years behind (2026 = Shaka 1948). Both roll to a new year on Chaitra Shukla Pratipada, which lands in March or April.