Daily panchanga
Follow the day from sunrise, discover when its lunar divisions change, and explore their meaning.
Choose the day and place
Preparing your local date…
A day you can explore.
Start with the five limbs at sunrise. Select a segment to inspect its exact beginning, then follow the sequence through the night to the next sunrise.
Learn how to read a panchanga →Read a panchanga from sunrise to sunrise
A daily panchanga combines the weekday with four Sun–Moon divisions. Begin with the values at sunrise, then follow their changes through the day. These calendar facts support traditional timing practice; deciding a suitable occasion requires additional rules.
Set the place and day
Apply a local calendar date, coordinates and time zone. Check the selected sidereal reference and sunrise convention. The displayed day begins at that date’s sunrise and ends at the next sunrise; civil midnight does not begin a new vara.
calendrical conventionRead all five starting limbs
At sunrise, read vara and its weekday lord; tithi with paksha; the Moon’s nakshatra and pada; nitya yoga; and karana. Keep their different units in view: vara follows sunrise, while the other four follow angular boundaries.
calculation and traditional terminologyFollow a selected change
Select a limb or transition to inspect the interval in which its name applies. An ending time closes that state and opens the next. Read the full local date after midnight; a next-day ending can still belong to this sunrise day.
editorial workflowRead named daylight periods separately
Rahu Kalam, Yamaganda and Gulika divide the actual sunrise-to-sunset interval into weekday-specific eighths. They are a separate traditional overlay. Rahu Kalam is commonly avoided for auspicious beginnings; customary evaluations differ, including for Gulika.
attributed practitioner conventionSeparate a calendar fact from an election
Use the selected factor to identify which rule a particular observance or teacher asks you to consult. A tithi name, nakshatra name or unmarked time gap does not by itself decide a festival date, personal suitability or a successful outcome.
editorial reading practice
The sunrise choice is explicit because panchangas differ. This tool does not arbitrate festivals or deliver a full muhurta judgement. If a sunrise day is unavailable, any civil-interval fallback shows four angular limbs with vara unassigned. Skipped or unsupported dates remain explicit. Instant panchanga stays a separate birth-instant Lahiri view.
Read the original sources
- Swiss Ephemeris Programming Interface: §8.12.1 Hindu rising ↗
Full Hindu-rising flags, apparent upper-limb alternatives and the model assumptions used for rise/set calculations.
- Drik Panchang: Sunrise and sunset conventions ↗
Drik’s current sunrise settings and default; documents variation between solar-centre and upper-edge conventions.
- Drik Panchang: Reading Panchang Timings ↗
Explains ending times, the factors present at sunrise, and local time with daylight-saving adjustment.
- Komilla Sutton: Personal Panchanga ↗
Practitioner account of sunrise-based vara, planetary weekday rulers and personal panchanga use; cited for interpretation, not simplified astronomy.
- P. V. R. Narasimha Rao: Vedic Astrology, an Integrated Approach, §§1.3.6, 1.3.8–10, 1.3.12 and 4.3 ↗
§1.3.6 defines nakshatras/padas; §§1.3.8–10 give tithi, yoga and karana formulas; §1.3.12 lists five limbs; §4.3 distinguishes upagraha calculations.
- Kalaprakasika: daylight periods, printed p.175 ↗
The historical weekday table supports Yamaganda and Saturn’s Gulika period; it expressly qualifies Gulika’s auspiciousness differently.
- Drik Panchang: Rahu Kalam methods ↗
Describes multiple Rahu-timing methods and the common daylight-eighth method as a practitioner convention.