Moon Sign of the Day API

The sidereal sign the Moon is in on a given date at a place, by the ayanamsha you choose.

POST /v1/panchang/moon-sign
1 credit

Request

curl https://api.96astroapi.com/v1/panchang/moon-sign \  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ASTRO_API_KEY" \  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \  -d '{
      "date": "2026-10-13",
      "timezone": "Asia/Kolkata",
      "latitude": 28.6139,
      "longitude": 77.209
    }'

Overview

The sidereal sign the Moon is in on a given date at a place, by the ayanamsha you choose.

Call it with POST /v1/panchang/moon-sign. Input: date and place. Output: JSON, as a direct response. Each successful call costs 1 credit.

POST /v1/panchang/moon-sign
1 credit
Date and place

Part of a bigger answer

The same numbers are also returned, with the rest of the section, by Sunrise, Sunset, Moonrise & Twilights. This endpoint returns only this part, from the same calculation, at a lower price.

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Response

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Example response

Fields in dataMeasured from 6 real answers to different inputs: a required field was in every one.

datestring
locationobject
ayanamshaobject
sun_moonobject

200Example response

Captured from the live engine with a sandbox key (so credits_used is 0) and trimmed: long arrays keep their first items and images are replaced by a placeholder.

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Request schema and every field: the Panchang & almanac reference.

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