How to use today’s panchang on Tithi.live
Tithi.live is a free Hindu (Vaidik) panchang for families in India and neighbouring regions. The homepage is the daily desk: pick a city, confirm the date (India calendar day, IST), then read tithi, nakshatra, yoga, paksha, sunrise, sunset, rahu kaal, brahma muhurta and abhijit muhurta in one place. Ads, when shown, are secondary to this publisher content.
A panchang is not a luck widget. It is a structured almanac. Each field answers a different question. Tithi tells you the lunar day used for most vratas. Nakshatra is the Moon’s mansion that day. Sunrise and sunset anchor fasting end-times and sandhya. Rahu kaal is a weekday caution window that moves with local day length. Brahma muhurta sits before local sunrise; abhijit is a midday helper. Festival listings tell you whether the day is ordinary or named.
A five-minute morning routine
- Set the city in the header to the place where the rite or travel actually happens.
- Confirm today’s date — or pick another day only when you are planning ahead.
- Read tithi and paksha. Ask: is this a common fasting tithi in our family?
- Note rahu kaal before starting a journey, signing, or opening something new.
- Open vrat and festivals if the week looks busy, or a Learn guide if a term is unfamiliar.
After two weeks of this habit, the page stops feeling like a dashboard of foreign words and starts feeling like a family calendar. That literacy is the product.
Why every city has its own clock
India uses one civil timezone (IST), but the Sun does not. Agartala and Guwahati see dawn while Mumbai is still dark. Delhi’s summer day is longer than Chennai’s. Ujjain is a classical meridian in jyotish literature; it is still not the correct sunrise for a Bengaluru mundan. Tithi.live therefore refuses a single “India rahu kaal” poster. Open the city hub — Bengaluru, Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Kolkata, Pune, Ujjain and the expanding list in the location control.
When you forward a time to family, include the city name and the date. A screenshot of “1:30–3:00” without a place is incomplete, and it is how relatives apply the wrong window.
What this site will not pretend to be
We are not a substitute for a family purohit, a temple authority, a physician, or a court. Horoscope columns are general guidance. Regional schools (amanta vs purnimanta month naming, smarta vs vaishnava ekadashi) can disagree by a day. For a wedding, griha pravesh, or a medically sensitive fast, confirm with a trusted local source. Our About page explains how we prepare data and how to send a correction.
If live field cards for a date are still filling in, this article and the guides library remain the useful part of the page. A panchang site should teach the calendar, not only paint numbers into cards.
Where to go next
- आज का पंचांग hub — Hindi-first daily intent.
- What is tithi? — lunar day in plain language.
- Rahu kaal explained — weekday windows.
- Panchang vs horoscope — which tool for which question.
- Disclaimer — limits of online almanacs.