Free Vedic Almanac Tool
The panchang (पञ्चांग) is the Vedic almanac — five daily elements calculated from the positions of the Sun and Moon that guide auspicious timing in Hindu tradition. Enter any date below to instantly see its tithi (lunar day), vara (weekday), nakshatra (lunar mansion), yoga, and karana, calculated using real sidereal astronomy referenced to noon in India (IST).
Last updated: August 2026
Calculated for noon IST (India Standard Time) on the selected date — a simplified single-moment snapshot, not a full sunrise-to-sunrise timeline for a specific city.
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Panchang literally means 'five limbs' (pancha + anga), referring to the five elements that together describe the astrological character of a day: tithi, vara, nakshatra, yoga, and karana. Traditional Hindu calendars, temple almanacs, and muhurat (auspicious timing) calculations are all built on these five values, recalculated fresh for every day based on the real positions of the Sun and Moon.
The tithi is a lunar day — one of 30 divisions of the synodic month, each covering exactly 12° of angular separation between the Moon and Sun. The first 15 tithis (Shukla Paksha, the waxing fortnight) run from Pratipada to Purnima (full moon); the next 15 (Krishna Paksha, the waning fortnight) run from Pratipada to Amavasya (new moon). Many festivals and fasts, including Ekadashi and major Hindu festivals, are fixed by tithi rather than by the solar calendar date.
The vara is simply the weekday, but in Vedic tradition each day is also linked to a ruling planet — Sunday to the Sun, Monday to the Moon, and so on through Saturday and Saturn. The nakshatra is the lunar mansion the Moon occupies that day, one of 27 star groups spanning 13°20' of the zodiac, each further divided into four padas.
Yoga and karana are less familiar outside serious Jyotish study. Yoga is derived from the combined longitudes of the Sun and Moon (rather than their difference), producing 27 named yogas from Vishkambha to Vaidhriti. Karana is a half-tithi — 60 karanas span a lunar month, built from seven repeating movable karanas (Bava through Vishti) plus four fixed karanas (Kimstughna, Shakuni, Chatushpada, and Naga) that occur only once each cycle.
Pick any date, past, present, or future. No birth details, location, or account are needed — this is a general almanac lookup, not a personal birth chart.
We calculate the real sidereal (Lahiri ayanamsa) longitudes of the Sun and Moon at noon India Standard Time on the selected date, using astronomical ephemeris data.
From those two longitudes, we derive the tithi and karana (from their difference), the yoga (from their sum), the nakshatra (from the Moon's position), and the vara (the weekday itself).
A panchang is the traditional Hindu almanac, describing a day through five astrological elements: tithi (lunar day), vara (weekday), nakshatra (lunar mansion), yoga, and karana (half-tithi). It is the basis for choosing auspicious dates, fixing festivals, and traditional Vedic timing.
A tithi is a lunar day, defined as the time it takes for the angular distance between the Moon and Sun to increase by 12 degrees. There are 30 tithis in a lunar month, split into the waxing fortnight (Shukla Paksha, ending in Purnima/full moon) and the waning fortnight (Krishna Paksha, ending in Amavasya/new moon).
A traditional printed panchang recalculates each of the five limbs from sunrise, specific to a location, and each limb can change part-way through the day. This calculator is a simplified free tool that gives a single, consistent snapshot at noon India Standard Time for any date, so results near a tithi or karana boundary may differ slightly from a full location-based panchang for the same calendar day.
Yoga is one of 27 named periods derived from the combined (summed) longitudes of the Sun and Moon. Karana is a half-tithi — there are 60 karanas in a lunar month, made up of seven repeating 'movable' karanas and four 'fixed' karanas that occur only once per cycle. Both are used alongside tithi and nakshatra in muhurat (auspicious timing) analysis.
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