Today's panchang
Panchang details
⚠️ Inauspicious timings (ashubha)
Pause new beginnings in these windows — daily life continues. Slots shown for a standard 6:00–18:00 day.
✨ Favour — Abhijit Muhurta
The midday window of is broadly auspicious for starts, signings, and first steps.
Choghadiya
The day divided into eight 90-minute muhurtas — start good work in Amrit, Shubh, Labh or Char; avoid Udveg, Kaal and Rog.
Day (6:00–18:00)
Night (18:00–6:00)
Hora — planetary hours
Each hour of the day belongs to a graha. Jupiter, Venus, Mercury and Moon horas favour new work; Sun for authority; Mars and Saturn for effort, not beginnings.
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See Shubh Muhurat 2026 — or get the hour fixed against your own chart.
The five limbs of the day
What is a tithi?
A tithi is one lunar day — the time the moon takes to move 12° ahead of the sun. Thirty tithis make a lunar month, split into the bright half (shukla paksha) and dark half (krishna paksha). Fasts, festivals and muhurtas are all fixed by tithi, which is why the almanac leads with it.
What is a nakshatra?
The moon's path is divided into 27 star-fields; the one hosting the moon today is the day's nakshatra. Each carries its own temperament — swift, fixed, gentle, sharp — which is why some days suit journeys and others suit foundations.
What is yoga?
The panchang yoga is computed from the combined motion of sun and moon — 27 in all. Some (like Siddhi and Shubha) bless beginnings; a few (like Vyatipata and Vaidhriti) counsel patience.
What is karana?
A karana is half a tithi — eleven of them cycle through the month. Vishti (also called Bhadra) is the one to avoid for new work; the rest are broadly workable.
What are rahu kaal, yamaganda and gulika?
Three daily windows the tradition sets aside as inauspicious for beginnings, each about 90 minutes, falling at different times by weekday. Ongoing work is unaffected — the caution is only for starts.
Tithi, nakshatra, yoga and karana from mean sun–moon longitudes; sunrise/sunset are seasonal approximations for north India. Local coordinates shift these windows slightly.