HinduCalendar — panchang, festivals & muhurta

Reviewed Jan 1, 2000.

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Tools (5)

• get_panchang

  Full daily panchang for a date and place — computed by the same panchang-core engine the HinduCalendar Android app ships, so the values are identical to the app (not an approximation). Returns the five limbs at sunrise (tithi, nakshatra, yoga, karana, vaar) each with its END TIME, paksha, lunar month in both amavasyant and purnimant conventions (with adhik maas flag), Vikram/Shaka/Kali/Gujarati samvat years, samvatsara names, ritu (season), ayana (Uttarayan/ Dakshinayan), sun/moon rashi with next-transit time, and sunrise/sunset/ moonrise/moonset. This is also the Gregorian→Hindu date converter: the masa + paksha + tithi + samvat fields ARE the Hindu date. (For Hindu→Gregorian, use the Kaalshodh MCP server's find_matching_dates.) Example questions: "what is the tithi today in Delhi?", "when does Ekadashi end tomorrow?", "what is today's date in Vikram Samvat?", "which Hindu month is it?". Args: date: Greg

• get_festival_dates

  Exact dates of major Hindu festivals for any year, computed live by the same engine the HinduCalendar app uses — never guess a festival date, always use this. Covers the tithi-anchored festivals (Diwali, Holi, Krishna Janmashtami, Ganesh Chaturthi, Rama Navami, Maha Shivaratri, Raksha Bandhan, Dhanteras, Karva Chauth, Chhath, Vasant Panchami, Gudi Padwa, Akshaya Tritiya, the purnimas, Navratri from Ghatasthapana through Vijayadashami) *and* the ones no tithi rule can express: solar ingresses (Makar Sankranti — also Pongal, Uttarayan, Maghi; Mesha Sankranti — also Vishu, Baisakhi, Puthandu), nakshatra-dated observances (Onam, the Jyeshtha Gauri triad), weekday series (Shravan Somwar, Mangala Gauri), and the Puri Jagannath sequence (Snana Yatra, Rath Yatra, Hera Panchami, Bahuda Yatra, Suna Besha, Niladri Bije). Every result carries `date` and a plain-language `rule` saying how that date is fixed, usually with a `why` explain

• get_muhurat_windows

  Dated windows of the auspicious muhurta yogas and the observance periods — the "when are the vivah muhurats in 2026?" and "when is Chaturmas?" family. Computed live by panchang-core's MuhurtaFinder, the same engine behind the app's Muhurta Finder and the hinducalendar.app muhurat pages. Twenty presets in two categories: • yoga — Sarvarth Siddhi, Amrit Siddhi, Guru Pushya, Ravi Pushya, Ravi, Dwipushkar, Tripushkar, Siddha, Amrita, Vivaah Muhurat. Intra-day windows, often several a week. • period — Chaitra / Sharad / Gupta Navratri (Ashadha and Magha), Chaturmas, Pitru Paksha, Holashtak, Panchak, Gand Mool, Kharmas. Multi-day observances and blackout spans. Each window has a `start` and `end` in ISO 8601 carrying the requested place's UTC offset ("2026-01-14T15:05:00+05:30"), so they read directly as the local time the muhurat is kept by. Asking for everything in a ye

• get_birth_details

  Return birth star (nakshatra), birth name syllable (naam akshar / pada), Chandra rashi (Moon sign), and Lagna rashi (ascendant sign) for a child born at the given time and location — all from the app's own engine, so they match the HinduCalendar app's kundali exactly. Args: time: ISO 8601 datetime of birth (e.g. "2025-08-15T10:30:00Z"). Include timezone offset if known (e.g. "2025-08-15T10:30:00+05:30"). lat: Latitude of birth place in decimal degrees (e.g. 28.6139 for Delhi). lon: Longitude of birth place in decimal degrees (e.g. 77.2090 for Delhi). ayanamsa: "Lahiri" (Vedic sidereal, default) or "Sayan" (tropical). Returns: Dict with: - time (ISO) - ayanamsa - nakshatra: { index (1–27), name } - pada: { index (1–4), overall_index (1–108), naam_akshar (birth name syllable) } - chandra_rashi: { index (1–12), name } ← Moon sign

• get_muhurta

  Muhurta for a moment and place, exactly as the HinduCalendar app computes it — and, with full_day=True, the whole day's grid. By default returns only what is ACTIVE at the instant given: - Current lagna (ascendant sign active at that moment) - Current choghadiya (day or night slot) - Current hora (planetary hour) - Any ongoing special muhurtas (Rahu Kalam, Yama Ghanta, Guli Kalam, Abhijit, Dur Muhurt, Pradosh, Varjyam, Panchak, Gandmool) Set full_day=True to also get every window of the panchang day (sunrise to next sunrise) containing that instant — the complete choghadiya and hora grids (day and night), all lagna periods, and every special muhurta with its start and end. Use it for "when is Rahu Kalam today?", "list today's choghadiya", "when is Abhijit muhurat?" — questions the instant-only view cannot answer without guessing the time. Sunrise/sunset, lagna transitions and every special muhurta come from