Today's PanchangaTithi, Nakshatra & Yoga, live
Est. 2026 · संस्कृत पञ्चाङ्गम्
Sanskrit Calendar pairs a classical Subhashita — a verse of wisdom from the Gita, the Upanishads, Panchatantra and beyond — with the Sanskrit calendar system itself: the Samvatsara year cycle, the twelve Masa (months), and the Panchanga terms every Hindu almanac is built from.
अद्य पञ्चाङ्गम् · Today's Panchanga, calculated live
Calculated in your browser from the positions of the Sun and Moon.
The lunar day: each time the Moon gains another 12° on the Sun.
Which of the 27 star-mansions the Moon is passing through.
The sum of the Sun's and Moon's longitudes, in 27 parts.
Half a tithi — sixty in every lunar month.
Positions are sidereal (Lahiri ayanamsa) and geocentric, accurate to within a minute or two. Tithi and nakshatra end times are shown in your own time zone. A printed Panchang for your city counts the day from local sunrise, so on days when a tithi changes early in the morning it may list the next one. Open the full live Panchanga →
Every name in a Panchang is a Sanskrit word with a meaning. Here is what today's mean — they change every day.
The tithi and nakshatra at 6 am each morning, with fasting and festival days marked.
S. = Shukla (waxing) and K. = Krishna (waning) paksha. Vrat dates follow the tithi that prevails at sunrise — or, for some observances, at sunset or midnight — so check your community's calendar for the exact day.
Nearly 280 pages is a lot to browse blind — here's the order we'd read them in. Here to learn the language itself? Start with the 12-week beginner plan.
Start with the Panchanga overview — the five daily measurements (Tithi, Vara, Nakshatra, Yoga, Karana) everything else on this site is built from.
Read the Panchanga overview →Then the calendar systems themselves — Vikram Samvat, Shaka Samvat, and the 60-year Samvatsara cycle running alongside them both.
See the Indian Calendar map →Finally, see it applied — why festival names mean what they do, and what's traditionally weighed when choosing an auspicious Muhurta.
Browse festival etymology →Coming up in the Panchang
The year at a glance — Sanskrit months against the Gregorian calendar, Samvat years and verified festival dates.
All calendars →Lakshmi Puja muhurat city-wise, and all five days.
Months, Adhik Jyeshtha and festival dates.
New year on April 7 — the full year mapped.
Every major festival with verified dates.
Plan the next year ahead.
Month by month, with Tithi.
All 25 fasting dates.
A short Lakshmi Puja window — city-wise timings.
Every corner of the site, at a glance.
A word and a name, pulled from our growing reference lists.
The Masa Chakra
The Sanskrit lunar year runs Chaitra to Phalguna — twelve Masa grouped into six Ritu (seasons) of two months each. Each month takes its name from the Nakshatra the Moon was full in, a naming system going back to the Vedas themselves.
Each explained from its Sanskrit root, not just its function.
पञ्चाङ्गम् — "five limbs" — is the name for the almanac built from these five daily measurements. Tap any point on the wheel, or a card below, to go deeper into that element's Sanskrit root and full reference list.
The "Sanskrit calendar" isn't one single document — it's a system, built up from a few interlocking parts that classical Indian astronomers refined over roughly two thousand years. Unlike the Gregorian calendar's fixed 12 months of fixed length, the Sanskrit calendar is lunisolar: its months follow the Moon, while a periodic correction keeps the whole system anchored to the solar year and its seasons.
A Sanskrit month runs from new moon to new moon (or full moon to full moon, depending on regional tradition) — roughly 29.5 days, not a fixed 30 or 31. Twelve of these lunar months add up to about 354 days, eleven days short of the 365-day solar year the seasons actually follow. Left uncorrected, festivals would drift through the seasons over a human lifetime — so roughly every 32 months, an extra "leap month" (Adhik Masa) is inserted to pull the calendar back in step with the Sun.
Its building blocks: the 12 Masa (months), each named after a Nakshatra; the six Ritu (seasons), from Vasanta to Shishira; the five daily elements of the Panchanga; the two eras, Vikram Samvat and Shaka Samvat; and the 60-year Samvatsara cycle underneath both. To see it all on today's date, open Sanskrit Calendar Today; for the whole year at a glance, see the Sanskrit Calendar 2026 and 2027 overviews.
A Panchang does not run midnight to midnight, and its days do not line up one-to-one with the weekdays. Four ideas explain almost every surprise in a Hindu calendar.
The civil day of a Panchang — the savana dina — begins at local sunrise. The tithi in force at that moment, the udaya tithi, names the whole day, even if it ends an hour later. That is why two cities can list different tithis for the same date.
A tithi lasts anywhere from about 19 to 26 hours, because the Moon's speed varies. When one begins after a sunrise and ends before the next, no day is named after it — a kshaya tithi. When one spans two sunrises, two days share its name — a vriddhi tithi.
In the amanta system, used across much of South and West India, a month runs from new moon to new moon. In the purnimanta system of the North it runs from full moon to full moon. The bright fortnight carries the same month name in both; the dark fortnight is named after the next month in the North.
Twelve lunar months fall about eleven days short of a solar year. Roughly every 32½ months a lunar month passes in which the Sun enters no new sign; it becomes an adhika masa, an extra month — 2026 had an Adhika Jyeshtha — and the festivals catch up with the seasons again.
| Unit | Sanskrit | Length | In a day |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vipala | विपल | 0.4 seconds | 216,000 |
| Pala | पल | 24 seconds | 3,600 |
| Ghati (ghatika) | घटी | 24 minutes | 60 |
| Muhurta | मुहूर्त | 48 minutes | 30 |
| Prahara (yama) | प्रहर | 3 hours | 8 |
| Ahoratra | अहोरात्र | a day and night | 1 |
A ghati is named after the ghatika, a perforated copper bowl that took this long to sink in a basin of water. Each of the 30 muhurtas of a day and night has its own name; the eighth of the day is the well-known Abhijit Muhurta.
Right now, counted from 6 am
Traditional reckoning starts at local sunrise; 6 am is used here as an approximation. Sanskrit time explained →
Vikram Samvat, Shaka Samvat, and how it all fits together.
The whole year — months, festivals and eras — mapped in one place.
What each part of a Panchang page tells you.
How every system here relates to the others.
The traditional era, ~57 years ahead of Gregorian.
India's official National Calendar era.
The 60-year named-year cycle underneath it all.
What "lunar" and "lunisolar" actually mean.
Why Tamil New Year lands on the same date every year.
"Hindu calendar" means something different depending which state you're in — here's every major regional tradition.
See how they connect →Solar — Puthandu, mid-April
Pohela Boishakh, mid-April
Bestu Varas — new year at Diwali
Gudi Padwa, Mar/Apr
Ugadi, Mar/Apr
Ugadi, Mar/Apr
Kollam Era — Vishu, mid-April
Vaisakhi, mid-April
Pana Sankranti, mid-April
Rongali Bihu, mid-April
The pan-Indian Panchang, in Hindi
All regions, one directory
2026 year guides: Tamil · Bengali · Gujarati · Marathi · Telugu · Kannada · Malayalam · Punjabi · Odia · Assamese · Hindi
2027 year guides: Tamil · Bengali · Gujarati · Marathi · Telugu · Kannada · Malayalam · Punjabi · Odia · Assamese · Hindi
What's traditionally considered for each kind of occasion.
All Muhurta types →Words, numbers, phrases and a step-by-step plan — the language behind the calendar.
Start the 12-week plan →A free 12-week plan for beginners.
Every vowel and consonant.
1 to 100, and Sanskrit ginti.
Words in Hindi and English.
Dharma, karma, moksha — root meanings.
I love you, thank you and more.
Tatsam, tadbhav and sentences.
Ten random questions.
Exam-ready Sanskrit with Hindi meaning — patra, nibandh and vyakaran.
All grammar topics →Format and phrases for patra lekhan.
1, 2 and 3 days, with Hindi meaning.
My school, Diwali, Holi, cow, my father…
Cleanliness, environment, education.
Definition, types and examples.
बालक, लता, फल — full tables.
पठ्, गम्, भू in five lakaras.
The eight cases.
Devanagari, transliteration and meaning for the verses people recite every day.
32 Subhashitas →Two more branches of the Sanskrit tradition — energy centres and geometric diagrams.
Sanskrit names, elements and petal counts — plus which parts (like the rainbow colours) are 20th-century additions, not ancient tradition.
What the Sri Yantra's nine interlocking triangles represent, and how a yantra differs from a mandala.
A small, focused reference — not another festival-date aggregator.
32 classical verses on rotation — Gita, Upanishads, Panchatantra, Chanakya Niti — with Devanagari, transliteration and plain-language meaning.
Tithi, Vasara, Nakshatra, Yoga, Karana — explained through their Sanskrit etymology, not just their function.
All 60 named years of the Brihaspati (Jupiter) cycle, with today's year highlighted.
1 to 100 in Devanagari, with transliteration — the number system behind Panchanga calculations.
Vasanta to Shishira — the season cycle classical Sanskrit poetry was built around.
No auto-playing audio, no pop-ups, no account required — just the verse and the calendar around it.
पञ्चाङ्गम् (pañcāṅgam) means "five limbs" — the Hindu almanac built from five daily measurements: Tithi, Vara, Nakshatra, Yoga and Karana.
Samvatsara is the Sanskrit word for "year" in the 60-year Jupiter (Brihaspati) cycle used in the Hindu calendar. Each of the 60 years has its own name; once the cycle completes, it begins again from the first name, Prabhava.
Vikram Samvat (epoch 57 BCE) is the traditional era used religiously and civilly across North India and Nepal. Shaka Samvat (epoch 78 CE) is the era behind India's official National Calendar.
The Ritu system divides the year into six two-month seasons — Vasanta, Grishma, Varsha, Sharad, Hemanta and Shishira — a classical Indian framework that predates and differs from the four-season model common in temperate climates.
Related, but focused differently — this site is about the Sanskrit language and terminology behind the calendar (etymology, the Samvatsara cycle, numerals, verses) rather than daily festival dates or Muhurat timing.
Clear explainers on the Hindu calendar, the Panchanga, and why festival dates move every year.
See all posts →— Part of the Sanskrit Calendar Network
Festivals, holidays, Panchang dates and horoscopes for India — the flagship site in this network.
Explore Daily Calendar →What's tomorrow's date, festival and Panchang — a quick look ahead before it arrives.
Explore Tomorrow Calendar →Assamese holidays, festivals and the three Bihus, alongside the Bhaskarabda solar year and its six Ritus.
Explore Assam Calendar →Today's live Panchang — Tithi, Nakshatra, Yoga, Karana and Vara — plus Vikram/Shaka Samvat.
Explore Hindu Calendar →A clean, no-fuss English calendar reference — dates, holidays and observances at a glance.
Explore English Calendar →A traveler's guide to Mathura — temples, ghats, festivals, food, and how to plan a visit to Krishna's birthplace.
Explore Mathura Club →Free Janam Kundali, Rashi and Nakshatra analysis, Dasha timing and Kundali Milan — Vedic astrology explained plainly.
Explore Kundali.One →Disclaimer: Sanskrit Calendar is an independent educational reference, not a religious authority or Panchang publisher. Samvatsara and month calculations are approximate and can vary by a day depending on the specific Panchang tradition followed. See our full Disclaimer.
