📍 Today ·
Tithi, Nakshatra, Yoga, Karana and the day's auspicious & inauspicious timings — for any city, free. Swiss Ephemeris · Lahiri.
The lunar day, from the angle between Moon and Sun — sets the day's mood.
The constellation the Moon occupies — the day's deeper texture.
A Sun–Moon combination of 27 — the day's underlying energy.
Half a tithi — fine-tunes the timing for action and rest.
The weekday and its planetary ruler — the day's presiding graha.
The inauspicious windows to avoid, and the auspicious Abhijit to use.
Panchang means five limbs, and the five are tithi, vara, nakshatra, yoga and karana. Between them they describe the relationship of the Sun and Moon on a given day from five different angles. This is the oldest continuous calendrical practice in India, and the reason a Hindu date is not the same kind of object as a calendar date: it is computed from the actual positions of two bodies, so it begins and ends at sunrise rather than midnight and it does not fall on tidy boundaries.
A tithi completes when the Moon gains twelve degrees on the Sun. Because both move at varying speeds, a tithi runs anywhere from about nineteen to twenty-six hours. That is why a tithi can be skipped entirely on some days and repeat on others, and why festivals move around the solar calendar. Thirty tithis make a lunar month, fifteen waxing to Purnima and fifteen waning to Amavasya.
The nakshatra is which of the twenty-seven star segments the Moon occupies, each 13°20' wide, and it is the limb most used for choosing an auspicious moment. The yoga here is not a posture and not a chart combination — it is a specific quantity, the combined longitude of the Sun and Moon divided into twenty-seven parts. The karana is half a tithi; there are eleven of them and they cycle through the month. Each carries its own traditional suitability for particular kinds of work.
Every limb is anchored to sunrise, and sunrise depends on latitude and longitude. A panchang correct for Delhi is wrong for Chennai by enough to change which tithi is running at a given hour, and in the far north or south the difference is larger still. Anything presenting one panchang for the whole country has quietly ignored this. The figures here are computed for the place you enter, with the Swiss Ephemeris and Lahiri ayanamsa.
Panchang is the Vedic almanac of the day, made of five limbs (panch-anga): Tithi (lunar day), Nakshatra (the Moon's constellation), Yoga, Karana and Vara (weekday). Together they describe the quality of the day.
Rahu Kaal is a roughly 90-minute window each day ruled by Rahu, traditionally considered inauspicious for starting new or important work. ShukrAI shows today's exact Rahu Kaal for your city.
Abhijit is a short, highly auspicious window around midday, good for starting important tasks. It is calculated from your local sunrise and sunset.
Tithi is the lunar day, based on the angle between the Moon and Sun, and Nakshatra is the constellation the Moon occupies. Both change through the day — ShukrAI computes them precisely for your city at sunrise.
It is computed with the Swiss Ephemeris and Lahiri ayanamsa, using sunrise and sunset for your exact city — the same standard professional panchang makers use. Free, with no signup.
Daily readings, your living dasha, Sade Sati, VIP muhurats and a sacred practice hall — all in the ShukrAI app.
