14 Kartik 2083 · Saturday
Tithi, nakshatra, yoga and karana are calculated for 06:00 Nepal time. The calendar's observance tithi can differ.
The time from sunrise to sunset is divided into eight equal parts, and the night into eight more. Each part has one of seven names, and each name has a ruling planet. Amrit, Shubh and Labh are the three parts people choose for starting something, such as a journey, a purchase or a first day at work. Each part is one eighth of that day's actual daylight or night, so the parts are longer in summer, shorter in winter, and change a little every day. Times below are for Kathmandu.
An hora is one twelfth of the day or one twelfth of the night. It is close to an hour but rarely exactly one hour. The first hora after sunrise belongs to the planet that rules the weekday. Each hora after that follows the same fixed order of planets. After 24 horas the sequence has moved three places, and this gives the order of the weekday lords: Sunday's Sun is followed by Monday's Moon. People use the hora to choose a time for a task. Jupiter and Mercury horas are used for study and money matters, Venus for household matters, and Mars and Saturn for hard physical work.
Today's panchang for Kathmandu, Nepal — 14 Kartik 2083 (31 Oct 2026): tithi Shashthi, Krishna paksha, nakshatra Ardra, yoga Siddha, karana Garaja. Sunrise 06:13, sunset 17:21.
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A panchang (पंचांग) is the traditional Hindu almanac for a day. The name means "five limbs" and refers to its five main parts: tithi (lunar day), nakshatra (the star group the Moon is in), yoga (a combination of Sun and Moon positions), karana (half of a tithi) and vaar (weekday). In Nepal people check the panchang to find festival dates, fasting days, ceremony dates and daily puja timings.
Tithi is the lunar day. A lunar month has 30 tithis, split into the bright half (shukla paksha, new moon to full moon) and the dark half (krishna paksha). Nakshatra is one of 27 star groups along the Moon's path. The Moon stays about one day in each. Yoga is one of 27 combinations worked out from the movement of the Sun and Moon together. Karana is half a tithi. There are 11 karanas, and seven of them repeat through the month. This page also shows masa (lunar month), ritu (season), ayana (whether the Sun is on its northward or southward course) and the samvatsara (year name).
The page also lists sunrise, sunset, moonrise and moonset for Kathmandu, and the traditional day periods: abhijit muhurta (the auspicious period around midday), and rahu kaal, yamaganda and gulika (periods people traditionally avoid for starting new work). Rahu kaal lasts about ninety minutes and falls at a different time on each weekday.
Every value is calculated from the actual positions of the Sun and Moon. It uses the sidereal (nirayana) zodiac that Nepali and Indian panchangs use, with times for Nepal's time zone and Kathmandu's location. Tithi and nakshatra can start or end at any time of day. For this reason printed patros show the time a tithi ends, and sometimes two days share one tithi or a tithi is skipped. Use the date picker above to open the full panchang for any Bikram Sambat date, past or future. For example, you can look up the tithi of an upcoming festival or the nakshatra on a birth date.
Today's tithi is Shashthi, in the Krishna paksha. As in every panchang, the day's tithi is the one running at sunrise.
Rahu kaal is a period of about ninety minutes each day. By tradition, people avoid starting new work, journeys or ceremonies during it. Its time depends on the weekday. For example, it is early in the morning on Monday and in the mid-afternoon on Tuesday. Today's rahu kaal time is listed in the day periods section of this page.
One tithi ends when the Moon moves 12° further ahead of the Sun. This takes about 20 to 27 hours. If a tithi starts just after one sunrise and ends before the next sunrise, it is not present at any sunrise and is skipped (kshaya). If it covers three sunrises, it repeats (vriddhi). Printed patros show these cases the same way.
Yes. Sunrise, sunset, rahu kaal and muhurta times are calculated for Kathmandu and Nepal Time (UTC+5:45). Panchangs for India or other countries can show different values, because anything that depends on sunrise changes with location.
Today the Moon is in Ardra nakshatra, in the rashi Mithun. The Moon passes through all 27 nakshatras in about 27.3 days, about one day in each.
