Your daily Pañchāṅga
Pañchāṅga is the Hindu almanac: tithi, weekday, nakṣatra, yoga and karaṇa. Mạghā calculates these five measures and their changes from one local sunrise to the next. Check any place and date free, without an account.
It is Śanivāra (Saturday) all day; Śukla Pratipadā ends at 07:46 and Dvitīyā runs on to 07:08 next morning, Uttara Phalgunī gives way to Hasta at 12:55 and Śubha yoga to Śukla at 15:09. The karaṇa changes from Bava to Bālava at 07:46 and to Kaulava at 19:23.
12 September · 06:12 IST13 September · 06:12 IST
- Vāra
- Śanivāra · Saturday
- Tithi
- Śukla Pratipadā · until 07:46:52
- Dvitīyā · continues to 07:08:55 next day
- Nakṣatra
- Uttara Phalgunī · until 12:55:29
- Hasta · continues to 13:07:14 next day
- Yoga
- Śubha · until 15:09:22
- Śukla · continues to 13:43:22 next day
- Karaṇa
- Bava · until 07:46:52
- Bālava · until 19:23:33
- Kaulava · continues to 07:08:55 next day
Four limbs follow the Moon, and the weekday follows sunrise
The five limbs follow these rules: tithi advances with each 12° of Moon–Sun separation; nakṣatra with each 13°20′ of the sidereal Moon; yoga with each 13°20′ of their summed longitudes. A karaṇa is half a tithi: seven movable names repeat eight times, while four fixed names occur once. Vāra runs sunrise to sunrise. The dated sample diagram shows each change, including Pratipadā ending at 07:46 and Hasta beginning at 12:55.
The limb in force at sunrise names the day
Almanacs name a day by the limbs present at its sunrise, even when one ends minutes later. In Bengaluru, 12 September 2026 counts as Śukla Pratipadā, although Dvitīyā began at 07:46 and filled the rest of the day; 13 September counts as Dvitīyā.
A tithi lasts from about 20 to 27 hours, so the sunrise rule sometimes skips or repeats a name. A tithi that begins and ends between two sunrises never touches one and is called kṣaya (lost). A tithi that spans two sunrises names both days and is called vṛddhi (increased).
Festival rules can look at other moments, such as midnight for Janmāṣṭamī. Mạghā shows each limb at sunrise and every change through the day for your own place, so you can check the moment such a rule names.
Mạghā draws the whole day on one timeline
Mạghā's Vedic day timeline spans sunrise to the next sunrise. Sun, Moon, tithi, nakṣatra, yoga, karaṇa and muhūrta lanes show the day's events and changes, with a current-time marker. Calculations use Swiss Ephemeris and Lahiri's ayanāṁśa regardless of chart settings, timing limb changes to the second.
Sunrise uses the Sun's centre without refraction. Upper-edge, refracted sunrise is roughly 3½ minutes earlier in the September Bengaluru sample, so other almanacs can differ.
The 12 hours 7 minutes from sunrise at 06:12 to sunset at 18:19 give horās of about 60½ minutes, choghaḍiyās and Kālams of about 91 minutes and muhūrtas of about 48½ minutes. Saturday's Rāhu Kālam is the third eighth, 09:14 to 10:44, and Abhijit Muhūrta the middle fifteenth, 11:51 to 12:40.
Sunrise · 06:12:09Sunset · 18:19:37
- 12 horās
- Saturn · 06:12
- Jupiter · 07:12
- Mars · 08:13
- Sun · 09:14
- Venus · 10:14
- Mercury · 11:15
- Moon · 12:15
- Saturn · 13:16
- Jupiter · 14:17
- Mars · 15:17
- Sun · 16:18
- Venus · 17:19
- 8 choghaḍiyās
- Kāla · Gulika Kālam · 06:12
- Śubha · 07:43
- Roga · Rāhu Kālam · 09:14
- Udvega · 10:44
- Cara · 12:15
- Lābha · Yamagaṇḍa · 13:46
- Amṛta · 15:17
- Kāla · 16:48
- 15 muhūrtas
- Abhijit · 11:51:38–12:40:08
Each timing tool cuts the same daylight differently
Below the timeline, the Hora schedule lists all 24 planetary hours, twelve from sunrise to sunset and twelve through the night, each ruled by a planet. The Choghaḍiyā section cuts day and night into eight periods each. The Muhurta schedule gathers the windows to avoid, such as Rāhu Kālam, Yamagaṇḍa and Gulika Kālam, and the favourable ones, such as Brahma and Abhijit Muhūrta, which the auspicious and cautionary timings page explains.
On the sample day, daylight lasted 12 hours 7 minutes. Each horā took a twelfth of it, about 60½ minutes, and each choghaḍiyā an eighth, about 91 minutes. The three Kālams occupy eighths too: Rāhu Kālam, the third on a Saturday, fell at 09:14 to 10:44. Abhijit Muhūrta, the middle fifteenth, ran from 11:51 to 12:40.
The planner turns the day's timings into windows for six plans
The activity planner applies these timings to travel, signing a deal, entering a new home, medicine, a new beginning and marriage. It splits the day wherever a limb, horā, choghaḍiyā or window changes, rules out avoid windows such as Rāhu Kālam and grades what remains as best, good or fair, listing its reasons. A grid compares travel, business, medicine, ceremony, property and education across the day.
Special day yogas such as Sarvārtha Siddhi, and the Viṣṭi (Bhadrā) karaṇa, feed the same windows: an avoid period joins the avoid list, and a favourable yoga counts in the planner. The almanac adds the lunar month, saṁvatsara, ṛtu and ayana, and D1 and D9 charts show the sky at your chosen moment. To test one proposed time with its own chart, use Muhūrta.
Questions about the daily Pañchāṅga
What does Pañchāṅga mean?
Pañchāṅga is Sanskrit for "five limbs": tithi, vāra, nakṣatra, yoga and karaṇa. Panchang, panchangam and panchanga are the same word in Hindi, South Indian and Sanskrit spellings.
A printed Pañchāṅga covers a whole year for one region. Mạghā's page works out a single day for the exact place you choose, with its timings, horās and almanac.
Is the Pañchāṅga the same in every city?
No. A limb changes at the same instant everywhere, but sunrise and sunset depend on latitude and longitude, so the start of the vāra, the horās, the choghaḍiyās and Rāhu Kālam shift from city to city. When a limb changes close to sunrise, two cities can even name the day differently. That is why Mạghā asks for your place before it calculates anything.
Why do two panchangs show different times?
Three choices explain most differences. Sunrise: Mạghā uses the centre of the Sun's disc without refraction, while many sites use its upper edge with refraction. Ayanāṁśa: nakṣatra and yoga times move with it, tithi and karaṇa times do not, and Mạghā's Pañchāṅga always uses Lahiri. Method: some almanacs still compute from the older vākya tables rather than a modern ephemeris, and can differ far more.
Can I see the Pañchāṅga for another date or time?
Yes. Previous day, Today and Next day step through the calendar, and the date field takes any day you type or pick. Reference time recalculates the page for a chosen hour, minute and second, moving the marker and the D1 and D9 charts with it. Save Panchang settings keeps your place on this device for your next visit.
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Bengaluru, India · Asia/Kolkata
The public Pañchāṅga page is free and needs no account. The preview plays Mạghā's prepared chart for Bengaluru at 12:00 on 12 September 2026; the live page calculates the date and place you choose.
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