Amrutkaal About Amrutkaal
Amrutkaal is a daily panchang for Indian cities, computed from astronomy. Every tithi, nakshatra, and muhurat on this site is calculated mathematically using the Swiss Ephemeris library with the Lahiri ayanamsa — the standard used by the Indian government's Rashtriya Panchang.
We don't predict the future. We don't sell anything. The site will always be free. Our single purpose: accurate panchang that users can read to plan their day — auspicious times for new ventures, daily rahu kaal to avoid, festival dates for the year ahead.
What this site is
- Daily panchang for 6,390 Indian cities — and 3,800+ cities across 84 countries worldwide, each computed for its own sunrise and timezone.
- Auspicious and inauspicious times: Rahu Kaal, Abhijit Muhurat, Amrit Kaal, Brahma Muhurat, Choghadiya.
- A free rashi calculator — moon sign, nakshatra and pada from your date of birth. The calculation runs entirely in your browser; your birth details never leave your device.
- Free kundli matching — the full 36-point Ashtakoota Gun Milan with Nadi and Bhakoot dosha checks, computed entirely in your browser.
- Listen instead of reading — every panchang page and calculator result has a Listen button that reads the day's tithi, nakshatra, Rahu Kaal and muhurat aloud in Hindi or English. The audio is generated on your own device, free — made for elders, for commutes, and for everyone who prefers hearing their panchang the way it was traditionally recited.
- Dates of major Hindu festivals from 2026 to 2030.
- Available in both English and Hindi.
- Worldwide city data © GeoNames (CC-BY 4.0).
What this site isn't
- A prediction service. This is a neutral calendar, not advice.
- Astrology consultation. We don't sell kundlis or predictions.
- Ad-free. Display advertising funds the free site at scale.
Who builds this
Amrutkaal is built by Ranjeet Kumar, an engineer from India who grew up watching family plan their days around the panchang — and was bothered that accurate panchang lived either in thick printed almanacs or on websites buried in ads. This site is the answer to that: pure computation, quiet design, free forever.
Every city's computation and every design decision follows one principle: respect the reader's time and their tradition equally. If you ever find an error in a timing, write in — it will be fixed.
Editorial policy
Every timing on Amrutkaal is the output of an astronomical calculation, not an opinion. Tithi, nakshatra, yoga, karana, muhurat and Rahu Kaal are derived purely by mathematics; where traditions differ (for example purnimanta vs amanta month reckoning), we follow the standard Rashtriya Panchang convention and say so plainly. We publish no predictions and take no payment to alter or promote any timing.
Each city page carries a visible "last updated" stamp and a link to the full method. If a timing ever looks wrong, email us — corrections are prioritised, and a fix to the computation propagates across every page. We would rather be corrected than be confidently wrong.
Data sources & accuracy
- Planetary positions: the Swiss Ephemeris — the same high-precision astronomical data professional astronomy and astrology software rely on.
- Ayanamsa: Lahiri (Chitrapaksha), the sidereal reference adopted by the Government of India's Rashtriya Panchang.
- Sunrise-based windows: sunrise, sunset and everything derived from them (Rahu Kaal, choghadiya, Abhijit Muhurat) are computed from each city's own coordinates and timezone — never copied from one reference city.
- City data: GeoNames, used under CC-BY 4.0.
- Freshness: the panchang is recomputed daily; tithi and nakshatra transition moments are universal and shown converted to each city's local time.
We validate our output against established published panchangs so that tithi, nakshatra and muhurat agree. The complete methodology — including the formulae — is documented openly on the Method page, and the concepts behind each limb are explained in our guides: What is Panchang?, Tithi, Nakshatra, Rahu Kaal and Abhijit Muhurat.
Contact
Questions or corrections? Write to us:
For the full computational methodology, see Method →