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The panchang for any Indian city, calculated from the real local sunrise and sunset for the date and place you choose — tithi, vara, nakshatra, yoga, karana, and the day's key muhurat windows.
Last updated: September 2026
A curated calendar of major pan-India festivals and vrats for the year, cross-checked against published Hindu-calendar references.
Makar Sankranti / Pongal
Sun's transit into Capricorn; celebrated as Pongal in the south.
Vasant Panchami
Saraswati Puja, marking the start of spring.
Maha Shivratri
Night-long vrat and worship of Lord Shiva.
Holi
Festival of colours, on Phalguna Purnima.
Gudi Padwa / Ugadi
Marathi and Telugu/Kannada lunar new year.
Ram Navami
Birth anniversary of Lord Rama.
Hanuman Jayanti
Birth anniversary of Lord Hanuman.
Akshaya Tritiya
Considered auspicious for new beginnings and gold purchases.
Buddha Purnima
Birth anniversary of Gautama Buddha.
Guru Purnima
Day of reverence for teachers and gurus.
Onam (Thiruvonam)
Kerala's harvest festival.
Raksha Bandhan
Celebrates the bond between brothers and sisters.
Krishna Janmashtami
Birth anniversary of Lord Krishna.
Ganesh ChaturthiNext up
Start of the Ganesh Utsav, ending on Anant Chaturdashi.
Sharad Navratri Begins
Nine nights of worship of Goddess Durga.
Dussehra / Vijayadashami
Marks the victory of good over evil.
Karva Chauth
Married women observe a day-long fast for their husbands.
Dhanteras
Opens the five-day Diwali festival period.
Diwali (Lakshmi Puja)
Festival of lights and worship of Goddess Lakshmi.
Bhai Dooj
Closes the Diwali period, celebrating brothers and sisters.
Chhath Puja
Sun-worship festival, prominent in Bihar, UP, and Nepal.
Dates follow commonly cited tithi-based observances for 2026. The exact day can shift by one depending on regional tradition and which sunrise the governing tithi is reckoned from — always confirm locally-important dates with a local pandit or temple calendar.
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Get My Free KundliThis panchang and its muhurat windows are a general-purpose reference tool for awareness and entertainment, based on standard calculation methods. For decisions on weddings, ceremonies, or other significant life events, consult a qualified astrologer.
A location-based panchang recalculates its five limbs, and every muhurat window, from that day's actual sunrise at a specific place — unlike a generic date-only almanac, which uses a single fixed reference moment (see our Tithi & Panchang Calculator for that simpler version). Because sunrise time itself varies by city and by season, the exact start and end of Rahu Kalam or a given Choghadiya period can shift meaningfully between, say, Chennai and Amritsar on the same calendar date.
Rahu Kalam, Gulika Kalam, and Yamaganda are each one of eight equal divisions of the daytime span (sunrise to sunset), with the specific division depending on the day of the week. All three are traditionally treated as inauspicious windows to avoid for beginning new ventures, travel, or important ceremonies.
Abhijit Muhurat is the eighth of fifteen equal divisions of the same daytime span — the period straddling local solar noon — and is considered one of the most consistently auspicious short windows in the day, used to counteract otherwise inauspicious timing.
Choghadiya divides both the daytime and nighttime spans into eight periods each, cycling through seven named types (Amrit, Shubh, Labh, and Chal are broadly favorable; Kaal, Rog, and Udveg are not), commonly used for quick day-to-day timing decisions like travel or short errands.
Choose any of 30 major Indian cities and any calendar date, past, present, or future. No account or personal birth details are needed.
We compute that city's actual sunrise and sunset for the selected date using real astronomical rise/set search, not a fixed daylight assumption.
Tithi, vara, nakshatra, yoga, and karana are calculated at that exact sunrise moment (Lahiri sidereal), and Rahu Kalam, Gulika Kalam, Yamaganda, Abhijit Muhurat, and Choghadiya are all derived as fixed subdivisions of the sunrise-to-sunset and sunset-to-sunrise spans.
Rahu Kalam is a roughly 90-minute inauspicious period that occurs once daily, at a different time each weekday, traditionally avoided for starting new ventures, travel, or important events. It is one-eighth of the daytime span from sunrise to sunset.
Abhijit Muhurat is a roughly 48-minute period centered on local solar noon (the eighth of fifteen equal divisions of the daytime span), considered one of the most reliably auspicious short windows of the day.
Choghadiya divides the day and night into eight periods each, cycling through seven named types with different auspicious or inauspicious character, commonly used for quick everyday timing decisions like travel.
Rahu Kalam, Gulika Kalam, Yamaganda, Abhijit Muhurat, and Choghadiya are all calculated as fixed fractions of the daytime span between that city's actual sunrise and sunset on the selected date, so both the length and clock time of each window shift with real sunrise/sunset, which differs by location and season.
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