Tithi, vāra, nakṣatra, yoga — the limbs of the traditional day. Here is a computed reading for your city: the Sun's rising and setting, and the Moon's walk through the lunar day.
Choose your city and the panel computes the day from first principles — sunrise and sunset from the modern almanac method, the tithi and nakṣatra from low-precision lunar longitude, read at local sunrise the way a traditional pañchāṅga tabulates them.
The pañchāṅga is ancient astronomy in service of devotion: five limbs (aṅga) that mark the day — tithi, vāra, nakṣatra, yoga, karaṇa. The tradition also tabulates the muhūrta windows — Rāhu Kāla, Yamagaṇḍa, Abhijit — and those rules differ between regional almanacs and schools.
This surface is honest about its edges. The positions are computed from the mean and principal periodic terms of the Sun and Moon — accurate to a minute or two for sunrise, and to tens of minutes near a tithi or nakṣatra boundary. It shows four of the five limbs and omits karaṇa and the muhūrta divisions, because their enumeration varies between almanacs and we would only be guessing. For vrat, ritual starts, and auspicious windows, confirm with your pañchāṅga or local temple notice.
Ujjain anchors the view — the traditional zero meridian of Indian astronomy, the meridian the Āryabhaṭīya reckoning passes through. Pick your own city above; the panel follows.
Explore the archive of the 7 upcoming observances via the Festival Calendar, or walk the living day on Today's Path.