What is in a panchangam?

The day's five limbs, read at sunrise: the vaaram (weekday), thithi (lunar day), natchathiram (the Moon's star), yogam and karanam. With them come the day's timing windows: Rahu Kalam, Yamagandam, Gulikai Kalam, Abhijit and the nalla neram.

Which place are these times for?

Chennai. Elsewhere in Tamil Nadu the times move by a few minutes, because sunrise does.

Lumo computes the panchangam from the true positions of the Sun and Moon, and checks it against published drik panchangam tables and NASA/JPL's ephemeris. Printed vakyam panchangams, the older-maths kind like Pambu Panchangam, sit roughly 40 minutes either side of these times, occasionally up to three hours. Every check is public.

Panchangam · Sunday, 8 November 2026

Today's panchangam in Chennai

Aippasi 22, Parabhava year. Sunrise 6:06 AM, sunset 5:39 PM.

The day

Thithi: Theipirai Chaturdasi until 11:28 AMTheipirai: the waning half of the month
Natchathiram: Swathi, pada 1 until 7:23 AMPada 1 is its first quarter
Yogam: Ayushman until 3:02 AM (tonight, after midnight)
Karanam: Shakuni until 11:28 AM

Times

Abhijit11:29 AM – 12:16 PM
The day's most supportive stretch. Put the thing that matters most here: the start, the ask, the signing, the first step.
Yamagandam overlaps part of this stretch. For a one-time start, like a signing, use 11:29 AM – 11:53 AM.
Yamagandam11:53 AM – 1:19 PM
Set this stretch aside for finishing, not starting — clear the desk, close the loop, wrap things up. Everyday tasks are fine; save new moves for later.
Gulikai Kalam2:46 PM – 4:12 PM
Tradition reads what begins here as something that repeats. Start things you would happily do again; hold the one-time beginnings for another window.
Rahu Kalam4:12 PM – 5:39 PM
Hold new beginnings in this stretch — signings, first payments, launches, setting out on a journey. Routine work, rest, and anything already underway are completely fine.

Nalla neram

Nalla neram6:06 AM – 8:59 AM
Nalla neram10:26 AM – 2:46 PM
Yamagandam overlaps part of this stretch. For a one-time start, like a signing, use 10:26 AM – 11:53 AM and 1:19 PM – 2:46 PM.
Nalla neram5:39 PM – 8:46 PM
Nalla neram11:53 PM – 2:59 AM
Nalla neram4:33 AM – 6:06 AM (tonight, after midnight)

The full gowri panchangam

Why?

Everything here is computed for Chennai and today's date the way a printed panchangam is made: the thithi (the lunar day), natchathiram (the Moon's star), yogam and karanam are read at local sunrise and each shows the time it runs until. Rahu Kalam, Yamagandam and Gulikai Kalam fall on fixed eighths of the daylight for each weekday; Abhijit is the muhurtham around solar noon. The Gowri panchangam splits the day and the night into eight parts each, five of the eight names good — the good stretches together are the day's nalla neram. None of these makes a day good or bad — they time the day's starts, nothing more. Drik-ganita (computed from true positions) panchangam — angas at local sunrise with solved end-times, verified against published reference panchangam pages. Windows from the standard weekday day-part sequences over Chennai's sunrise and sunset.

Questions

What is in a panchangam?: The day's five limbs, read at sunrise: the vaaram (weekday), thithi (lunar day), natchathiram (the Moon's star), yogam and karanam. With them come the day's timing windows: Rahu Kalam, Yamagandam, Gulikai Kalam, Abhijit and the nalla neram.
Which place are these times for?: Chennai. Elsewhere in Tamil Nadu the times move by a few minutes, because sunrise does.
How accurate is it?: Lumo computes the panchangam from the true positions of the Sun and Moon, and checks it against published drik panchangam tables and NASA/JPL's ephemeris. Printed vakyam panchangams, the older-maths kind like Pambu Panchangam, sit roughly 40 minutes either side of these times, occasionally up to three hours. Every check is public. See the accuracy report.