The five limbs of the Vedic almanac — tithi, vara, nakshatra, yoga and karana — computed from the real positions of the Sun and Moon.
Tithi
Shukla Navami
Paksha: Shukla
Vara
Shanivar (Saturday)
Nakshatra
Moola
Yoga
Saubhagya
Karana
Balava
Calculated for 2026-09-19 (IST)
The panchang is the same for everyone. What it does to your day depends on your own birth chart — your dasha, your transits, your Moon. Ask a guru who reads your actual chart, not your sun sign.
Ask about your chart →Panchang means "five limbs" (pancha anga). It is the Vedic almanac: five quantities that together describe a day in the lunisolar calendar. Four of the five are derived from where the Sun and Moon actually are; the fifth is the weekday.
It is not a prediction. The panchang describes the sky, not your life. It is the input that muhurta — the choosing of auspicious times — works from, and it is the same for everyone alive on that day.
A lunar day — the time the Moon takes to gain 12° on the Sun. Thirty of them make a lunar month, fifteen waxing (Shukla) and fifteen waning (Krishna).
The weekday, each ruled by a planet. Vara carries the day's general temperament in muhurta.
The lunar mansion the Moon occupies — one of 27 segments of 13°20′ each. This is the limb most used for timing and for matching.
One of 27 divisions formed from the combined longitudes of the Sun and Moon. Not the same thing as yoga the practice, nor as chart yogas.
Half a tithi. Eleven karanas rotate through the lunar month — seven movable and four fixed.
Positions come from a sidereal ephemeris using the Lahiri ayanamsa, the standard followed by the Indian calendar. Tithi is derived from the Moon's elongation from the Sun, nakshatra from the Moon's sidereal longitude, yoga from the sum of the two longitudes, and karana from the half-tithi.
Because these four depend only on the geocentric longitudes of the Sun and Moon, they are the same at a given moment anywhere on Earth. They are shown here for the current moment, dated in IST.
Two honest limits: this page does not yet show the clock time at which each tithi and nakshatra ends, and it does not show sunrise, sunset or Rahu Kaal — those are genuinely location-dependent and need a place, which this tool does not ask for. The vara shown follows the IST calendar day; traditionally the Vedic day runs from sunrise to sunrise, so between midnight and sunrise a printed panchang will still name the previous weekday.
Tithi, nakshatra, yoga and karana are, at a given instant — they depend only on the geocentric longitudes of the Sun and Moon. What differs by place is the clock time at which each one changes, along with sunrise, sunset and Rahu Kaal.
Almost always one of three reasons: it is showing the tithi prevailing at sunrise rather than right now, it is computed for a different location's sunrise, or it uses a different ayanamsa. This page uses Lahiri and shows the current moment.
No. Every value on this page is ephemeris arithmetic. The explanatory text is written, not generated.
They are unrelated. The panchang yoga is one of 27 divisions formed from the sum of the Sun's and Moon's longitudes. A chart yoga is a named planetary combination in a horoscope.
Not on its own. The panchang is identical for everyone alive today, so anything it says applies to eight billion people at once. Whether a day suits you depends on your own chart — your dasha, your transits, your Moon.