Panchang today
Pick what you want to do, and see when today is good for it, with choghadiya, Rahu kaal and Abhijit already cross-checked for your city.
Tithi, nakshatra, yoga and karana with their end times are underneath, with the day’s festival or vrat, the month’s calendar and a Hindi version. Your city stays on this device.
Shukla Shashthi, the Moon in Jyeshtha
The five parts
Sun and Moon
Good times
Times to avoid
Ashwin month (purnimanta) · Ashwin (amanta) · Shukla paksha · Vikram Samvat 2083 · Shaka 1948
How we pick a good time
Most panchangs give you the tables and leave the cross-checking to you. We do it: for what you want to do, we take the good choghadiyas, add Abhijit, Amrit kalam, Vijaya or Brahma muhurat where they fit, and cut out Rahu kaal, Yamaganda, Gulika, Dur Muhurtam, Varjyam and Bhadra.
Rahu kaal always wins. Even inside an Amrit or Shubh choghadiya, the part that falls in Rahu kaal is left out, and the rest of the window is kept.
The five parts of the day
A panchang is the Hindu almanac for one day and one place. Its five parts are the tithi (the lunar day), the nakshatra (the Moon’s star), the yoga (the Sun and Moon together), the karana (half a tithi) and the vara (the weekday). The day runs from sunrise to the next sunrise.
Rahu kaal, Yamaganda and Gulika
Each is one eighth of the daylight, in a fixed place for each weekday, so each moves a little every day and differs from city to city. They are the windows people keep clear of new beginnings.
Festivals and vrats
Each festival falls on the day its tithi holds at the time its rite belongs to: sunrise for most, midday for Ganesh Chaturthi and Rama Navami, the evening for Diwali and Pradosh, midnight for Janmashtami and Shivaratri, moonrise for Karwa Chauth and Sankashti. Where the tithi holds at that time on two days, the traditional rules decide, and so a festival can fall on different dates in different cities.
Ekadashi is kept where the fast can be broken in Dwadashi the next morning; that is why it sometimes moves to the second day. Every date is checked against Drik Panchang for 2023 to 2030.
Regional festivals follow the solar month: Pongal, Lohri and Baisakhi by the Sun’s change of sign, Puthandu and Vishu by the Tamil and Malayalam new year, and Onam, Thai Pusam, Karthigai Deepam and Thrissur Pooram by the nakshatra inside their month. Each one carries its region’s name, and leads the day when your city is there. Darsha Amavasya is shown on its own when it falls a day before the Amavasya at sunrise.
Dur Muhurtam, Varjyam and Bhadra
Dur Muhurtam is one or two of the fifteen muhurtas of the day, fixed by weekday. Varjyam is a stretch of about an hour and a half in each nakshatra, and Amrit kalam its good counterpart. Bhadra is the Vishti karana, kept clear of new beginnings.
Choghadiya
The day and the night are each split into eight parts. Amrit, Shubh and Labh are the good ones, Char is good for travel, and Udveg, Kaal and Rog are the ones to avoid.
Why another site can differ by a minute
Panchangs differ by a minute or so, from the ephemeris, the ayanamsa and the way each rounds its times. Ours is worked out from the Sun and Moon for your exact city with the Lahiri ayanamsa, and set to agree with Drik Panchang: on the days we compared, nearly every time shows the same minute.
Questions people ask.
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Open the sample readingWhat is today’s tithi?
It leads the answer card above, for your city, with the time it ends. A tithi is the lunar day: how far the Moon has moved from the Sun, in 30 steps over a month.
What time is Rahu kaal today?
Open “Muhurat and times to avoid” in the answer card, or look at the day’s strip: Rahu kaal is the first red window. It is worked out from your city’s sunrise and sunset.
Is now a good time to start something?
Choose “start new” in the answer card. You get a yes or a wait for right now, and every good window left today, with Rahu kaal, Yamaganda and Gulika already cut out.
What is Abhijit muhurat?
The eighth of the fifteen parts of daylight, around local noon, held auspicious for starting things. It is not observed on Wednesdays.
Which month name should I use, amanta or purnimanta?
North India mostly uses purnimanta months, which end on the full moon; the south and west use amanta, which end on the new moon. The tithi is the same in both.
When is the next Ekadashi or Purnima?
Coming up, in the answer card, lists the next festivals and vrats for your city. Tap Month for the whole month’s calendar, with every tithi and festival.
Is there a Hindi panchang?
Yes. Tap हिन्दी at the top of the answer card to open आज का पंचांग, the same panchang in Hindi from tithi to hora, on the day you were looking at. It lives at cosmicchemistry.co/hi/panchang.
Is this the same as Drik Panchang?
The same kind of panchang, worked out independently and checked against it. Tithi, nakshatra, yoga and karana end times show the same minute, the muhurtas the same minute on about nineteen days in twenty, and the festival, vrat and regional festival dates matched on every day we checked, in New Delhi, New York and London.
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