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Panchang API: the five limbs and every timing, for any day and place
The panchang depends on the place, because it is reckoned from local sunrise. Send a date and a location, and get the five limbs with the time each one ends, the good and bad periods of the day, and calendars by month.
What people build with it
- A daily panchang on a temple or news site
- Festival and vrat reminders in an app
- A monthly printed calendar
The endpoints
- Daily Panchang
The full panchang for one day at one place: limbs, Sun and Moon times, calendar, auspicious and inauspicious periods, choghadiya, hora, festivals, balas, sunrise chart, doshas and more.
POST /v1/panchang/daily-panchang
1 credit
- Tithi, Nakshatra, Yoga, Karana & Vara
The vara, tithi with paksha, nakshatra, yoga and the karanas of the day, each with its end time.
POST /v1/panchang/panchang-five-limbs
1 credit
- Monthly Panchang
Panchang for every day of a month at one place.
POST /v1/panchang/monthly-panchang
3 credits
- Rahu Kaal & Inauspicious Periods
Rahu Kaal, Yamaganda, Gulika Kaal, Dur Muhurtam, Kulika, Kantaka-Mrityu, Kalavela and Yamaghanta windows for the day.
POST /v1/panchang/inauspicious-timings
1 credit
- Abhijit & Auspicious Periods
Brahma Muhurta, Abhijit, Vijaya, Godhuli, Pratah and Sayahna Sandhya and Nishita.
POST /v1/panchang/auspicious-timings
1 credit
- Choghadiya
Eight day and eight night Choghadiya periods with their nature.
POST /v1/panchang/choghadiya
1 credit
- Hora Table
Twelve day and twelve night planetary horas with their lord, nature and times.
POST /v1/panchang/hora-table
1 credit
- Tamil Solar Calendar
Tamil year, month and date from the Sun's sidereal sign, and the day-types.
POST /v1/panchang/tamil-calendar
1 credit
- Regional Calendars
A day, or every day of the regional month, in one of nine Indian calendars: Malayalam, Bengali, Odia (with its Amli administrative year beside the Shaka year), Nepali, Punjabi (solar) and Gujarati, Marathi, Telugu, Kannada (lunisolar).
POST /v1/panchang/regional-calendar
3 credits
- Panchang Limb Details
Deity, group and meaning of the tithi, the nakshatra's lord, deity and nature, the yoga's nature and the karana's kind, at a moment.
POST /v1/panchang/panchang-limb-details
1 credit
Common questions
- Why does the answer change with the city?
- Sunrise differs by place, and a day's tithi and nakshatra are read at local sunrise.
- Is there a widget?
- Yes. The panchang widget embeds on any page. See the widgets docs.