24 September 2026·Thursday·Purattasi 8, Parabhava·Shukla paksha
Everything below is calculated from this location’s own sunrise — the five limbs with the hours they run and the nazhigai beside them, the windows to use and the windows to leave alone, and the sky as it stood when the day began.
Showing times for
Start typing and choose from the list — sunrise decides every timing on this page.
Sunrise7:25 AMthe day begins
Sunset7:21 PM
Dinantham2:55 AM (+1)the day’s close
Moonrise6:30 PM
Moonset5:03 AM
The five limbs, as the almanac gives them
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Limb
Running
Hours & minutes
Nazhigai & vinadi
Tithi
Trayodashi Shukla paksha, waxing
1:32 PM prev day – 1:51 PM
15.17 prev – 16.03
Nakshatra
Shatabhisha pada 2
1:05 AM – 1:53 AM next day
44.11 prev – 46.07
Vaara
Guruvara Thursday · Guru
7:25 AM – next sunrise
00.00 – 60.00
Yoga
Shoola
6:24 AM – 5:35 AM next day
57.28 prev – 55.22
Karana
Taitila
1:42 AM – 1:51 PM
45.41 prev – 16.03
Garaja
1:51 PM – 1:54 AM next day
16.03 – 46.10
Shraddha tithi
Shukla Chaturdashi
Aparahna
the hour shraddha is kept in
2:35 PM – 4:58 PM
17.53 – 23.51
Nazhigai and vinadi are the units a printed panchangam sets beside the clock: sixty nazhigai to a day, counted from sunrise, and sixty vinadi to a nazhigai — so one nazhigai is twenty-four minutes and 33.18 means thirty-three nazhigai and eighteen vinadi after sunrise. A figure marked prev is counted from yesterday’s sunrise, because the vedic day it belongs to began there. Clock times are this location’s own.
A limb is named for what is running at sunrise, which is why several of these begin the day before and one may not end until the next. A karana is half a tithi, so two or three of them pass between this sunrise and this sunset, and each is listed.
Kept asPradosham
Observances are named from the tithi running at sunrise, which is why one can fall on a date its own calendar month does not obviously suggest.
Windows to use
Brahma Muhurtham5:56 AM – 7:26 AM
Abhijit Muhurta12:59 PM – 1:47 PM
Gulikai10:26 AM – 11:56 AM
Brahma Muhurtham is the ninety minutes before sunrise, kept for prayer, study and japa rather than for beginning worldly work. Gulikai is derived exactly as Rahu Kalam is but read as favourable — what is begun in it is said to recur.
Windows to leave alone
Rahu Kalam2:56 PM – 4:26 PM
Yamagandam7:26 AM – 8:56 AM
Durmuhurtam 111:24 AM – 12:12 PM
Durmuhurtam 24:11 PM – 4:58 PM
Varjyam8:33 AM – 10:12 AM
Each of these prohibits beginning something. Work already under way continues, and none of them applies to worship. Rahu Kalam and Yamagandam are two of the eight fixed parts the almanac cuts the day into, and which part falls to each depends on the weekday.
Where the day stands
Surya rashiKanya
Chandra rashiKumbha
Chandrashtama forKarka
Amritadi yogaMarana
Disha ShoolSouth
Its pariharasesame check
Disha Shool is the direction the day holds travel back from; a journey that must be made in it is begun with the parihara taken first, and a step in another direction. Chandrashtama names the rashis the Moon stands eighth from today — two of them on a day the Moon changes sign. Amritadi yoga reads the weekday and the nakshatra together.
The sky at sunrise7:26 AM
MeenaShani 17°51'R
Mesha
Vrishabha
Mithuna
KumbhaChandra 10°02'Rahu 3°50'
KarkaMangala 3°37'Guru 24°10'
Makara
SimhaKetu 3°50'
Dhanu
Vrischika
TulaShukra 12°50'
Kanya · ascSurya 7°13'Budha 27°24'
Kanya risingVirgo Lahiri ayanamsa
South Indian chart — the signs sit in fixed cells and the lagna moves (outlined above). Degrees are within the sign. R marks a retrograde graha.
Calculated guidance for 24 September 2026
A mixed day: use the suitable windows and keep major beginnings selective.
Thursday carries Shukla Trayodashi, with the Moon in Shatabhisha. This combination is best used for healing, analysis, privacy and correcting a system. Shoola yoga and Taitila karana refine the timing rather than acting as a personal horoscope.
Abhijit Muhurta is 12:59 PM–1:47 PM
Gulikai is shown separately as a favourable consolidation window, 10:26 AM–11:56 AM
Take care: Keep a new start outside Rahu Kalam, 2:56 PM–4:26 PM.
Take care: Avoid commencing a journey during Yamagandam, 7:26 AM–8:56 AM.
This is date-specific Panchang guidance for the selected city. It narrows the day; a marriage, house entry or other major undertaking still needs a purpose-specific muhurta and, where required, the relevant charts.
The five limbs
What each part of the Panchang measures
Each limb is a different relationship between the Sun and Moon. Together they describe the day; separately, each governs different undertakings.
Limb
Measures
Count
Used for
Tithi
The lunar day — each 12° of separation between Sun and Moon
30 per lunar month
Fasts and observances. Ekadashi, Amavasya, Pournami and Pradosham are all tithis
Vara
The weekday, each ruled by a graha
7
What the day favours by its lord — Thursday for learning, Saturday for Shani observance
Nakshatra
Which of the 27 lunar mansions the Moon occupies
27
Muhurta above all. Most auspicious timings are chosen by nakshatra first
Yoga
The combined longitude of Sun and Moon, divided into 27
27
General auspiciousness. Some yogas — Vyatipata, Vaidhriti — are avoided outright
Karana
Half a tithi
11 types
Finer timing within the day. Vishti (Bhadra) karana is avoided for beginnings
A panchang day does not begin at midnight. It runs from sunrise to sunrise, which is why a tithi can be labelled for a date it does not cover in full, and why a festival can fall on what looks like the wrong day. Everything on this page follows the sunrise-to-sunrise convention used in Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
The periods that matter
What to avoid, and what to use
Rahu Kalam
An inauspicious hour and a half, falling at a different time each weekday. The day is counted as twelve hours from sunrise and cut into eight parts of ninety minutes; each weekday takes a fixed one of them. So the window moves with your local sunrise, and differs by city for that reason.
Nothing new is begun during it in southern practice: no journey started, no purchase made, no agreement signed. Ongoing work continues unaffected, and it does not apply to worship.
Yamagandam and Gulikai
Two further periods derived the same way. Yamagandam is avoided for beginnings much as Rahu Kalam is. Gulikai is the exception — it is read as favourable, and things begun during it are said to recur or endure.
Which is why Gulikai is shown in a different colour above. It is commonly mistaken for a third inauspicious period.
Abhijit Muhurta
Roughly forty-eight minutes around solar noon, and the most reliably auspicious window of most days. It is said to overcome many other defects in the panchang, which makes it the standard fallback when nothing better is available.
The one exception is Wednesday, when Abhijit is not taken in several traditions.
Choghadiya and Hora
Two finer systems layered on the same day. Choghadiya divides daylight and night into eight parts each, marked Amrit, Shubh, Labh and so on. Hora assigns each hour to a planet.
Both are used for choosing within a day once the day itself has been judged suitable. Choghadiya → · Hora →
Rahu Kalam by weekday
Which of the eight parts is taken differs by day. The segments are fixed; the clock times depend entirely on your local sunrise, which is the only thing that moves them.
Day
Rahu Kalam segment
Yamagandam
Gulikai
Sunday
8th of 8
5th
7th
Monday
2nd
4th
6th
Tuesday
7th
3rd
5th
Wednesday
5th
2nd
4th
Thursday
6th
1st
3rd
Friday
4th
7th
2nd
Saturday
3rd
6th
1st
This is why a printed panchang from another state can mislead. The segments are fixed but their clock times are not: sunrise in Coimbatore is not sunrise in Delhi, and neither is sunrise in Toronto, so the same third-of-eight lands at a different hour in each. Any panchang not calculated for your own city is approximate at best. These follow the same reckoning as the printed Thirukanitha almanac our astrologers work from — a nominal twelve-hour day measured from true local sunrise.
How much weight to give it
A panchang describes the day, not your day. Every one of the five limbs is identical for everyone in your city. What differs between two people on the same date is their own charts and running periods — and classical practice weighs those first. A favourable panchang does not override a difficult dasha.
The inauspicious periods are narrower than they are often applied. Rahu Kalam prohibits beginning something — a journey, a purchase, an agreement. It does not require pausing work already underway, cancelling a meeting, or avoiding worship. Treating it as a general ban on activity is a modern over-extension.
And for anything of real consequence, a panchang is the starting point rather than the answer. A wedding, a griha pravesh or a business inauguration is timed from the charts of the people involved as well as the day. The Muhurat Finder does that, and our astrologers calculate individually where it matters.
Related
Finer timing within the day
Once the day itself is judged suitable, these choose the hour.
A panchang is an almanac of the day’s five qualities, and it exists to answer one practical question: is this a suitable moment for what I intend to do. Every muhurta in the Vedic tradition — for a marriage, a housewarming, the first letters a child writes, the lighting of a homa fire — is chosen from it.
The five limbs are not interchangeable. Tithi governs fasts and observances; nakshatra governs muhurta above all else; yoga gives a general reading of the day’s quality; karana refines the timing within it; and vara, the weekday, carries the character of its ruling graha. A day can be strong in one and weak in another, which is why a panchang is read as a whole rather than by any single line.
What it cannot do is speak to you specifically. The panchang is the same for everyone in your city, and the tradition never treated it as a substitute for reading the charts of the people involved. It narrows the field; it does not choose.
Questions
About the Panchang
Two reasons, and the first is almost always the city: Rahu Kalam is measured from your local sunrise, so Coimbatore is not Delhi and neither is Toronto. If a site does not ask your location, its times are for whichever city it defaults to. The second is method. We follow the printed Thirukanitha convention — a nominal twelve-hour day from sunrise, cut into eight parts of ninety minutes — which is what our astrologers' own almanac uses. Sites that divide true sunrise-to-sunset daylight instead land a few minutes away. Set the city above and the whole panel recalculates.
Most things, yes. What it prohibits is beginning — starting a journey, making a significant purchase, signing an agreement, inaugurating something. Work already underway continues, meetings are not cancelled, and it does not apply to worship or to rituals at all. Treating it as a general ban on activity is a modern over-extension of a narrow rule.
No — and it is very commonly listed as though it were. Gulikai is derived the same way as Rahu Kalam and Yamagandam but is read as favourable: things begun during it are said to recur or endure, which is why it is chosen for matters one wants repeated. We show it in a different colour above for that reason.
Because a tithi is not a day. It is the time the Moon takes to gain twelve degrees on the Sun, which varies between about nineteen and twenty-six hours — so it rarely aligns with sunrise. The panchang names the tithi running at sunrise and shows when it ends. This is also why a festival can appear to fall on what looks like the wrong date.
Roughly forty-eight minutes around solar noon, and the most consistently auspicious window of most days — said to overcome many other defects in the panchang. It is the standard fallback when nothing better is available. The exception is Wednesday, when several traditions do not take it.
No, and we would not want you to use it that way. A marriage muhurta weighs the excluded months, whether Venus or Jupiter is combust, the nakshatra and tithi, and both charts together. A panchang narrows the field to plausible days; choosing among them is a reading. Start with the Muhurat Finder, or have it calculated properly.
Sidereal calculations with the Lahiri ayanamsa, and the sunrise-to-sunrise day convention used in Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Where a tithi falls near sunrise, north Indian panchangs occasionally name a different day — neither is wrong, they are different reckoning conventions, and we follow the southern one throughout.
The panchang narrows the field. It does not choose the date.
For a marriage, a griha pravesh or a business inauguration, the day is chosen from the charts of the people involved as well as from the panchang. Our astrologers calculate muhurtas individually.
