Panchang snapshot for any date
Calculate tithi, civil vara, nakshatra, yoga and karana at noon for any selected date and place, using computed planetary positions.
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- Calendar date and place
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What this computes
Panchang means five limbs, and each one is a straightforward function of where the Sun and Moon were. The tithi is the gap between them, divided into steps of twelve degrees. This snapshot reports the civil weekday as vara. The nakshatra is the Moon’s sidereal longitude divided into twenty-seven. The yoga is the sum of the two longitudes, divided the same way. The karana is half a tithi. This page computes all five at noon for the date and place you give. The largest Sun-through-Saturn position difference in our sampled JPL validation was 0.44 arc-seconds; this does not validate a daily observance rule or every transition time.
This is a noon snapshot, not a label for the whole day
The Moon does not wait for the calendar. A tithi can begin at nine in the morning and end the following afternoon. The value shown here is therefore the limb running at noon, not a claim that it applies from midnight to midnight.
Use this page to inspect one consistent moment. It does not calculate sunrise or the time at which a limb changes.
Place is still required because it identifies the calculation context and local civil date. A traditional daily almanac adds a local sunrise boundary on top of these astronomical quantities. This calculator does not add that layer.
One detail worth having: the tithi and the karana depend only on the difference between the Sun and the Moon, so the ayanamsa cancels out and every school agrees on them. The nakshatra and the yoga do depend on the ayanamsa. If your tithi matches a printed panchang but your nakshatra does not, that is the reason, and it is a convention rather than an error.
What the result does and does not mean
These five figures describe the positions of two bodies. They are not a ranking of days, and this page does not tell you whether a date is favourable for anything. The muhurta systems that rate days are built on top of the panchang, they differ from one another about which combinations they weigh, and choosing between them is an interpretive matter we leave to the person you consult.
What the page is good for is checking which five limbs were running at noon on a selected date. If a decision depends on the limb at sunrise or at a ceremony’s exact time, use an almanac that prints those transition times.
Why does my printed panchang show a different tithi?
They may be reading the sky at different moments. This page samples noon; a traditional almanac commonly labels a date from the limb running at local sunrise. A limb can change between those two moments.
Do I have to give a place?
Yes. The calculator uses the selected place to establish the calculation context and local civil date. It does not calculate that place’s sunrise.
Can I use this for a past or future date?
Any date. The limbs are computed from the ephemeris rather than looked up in a table, so a birth date sixty years ago and a wedding date three years out are the same calculation.