About Divya Panchangam
Divya Panchangam is a daily companion for Hindus in India and around the world: an accurate panchang for your own city, the dates of festivals and vrats, muhurat for life's ceremonies, news from temples and communities, and a trusted place to find a pandit, a temple or a puja kit.
Who we are
Divya Panchangam is published by Kael Tripton Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales (company number 17177071), based in London. We are a small team of editors and engineers with families in India and the diaspora. We built the site because the calendar our parents relied on was hard to find for Leicester, Toronto or Singapore, and harder still to trust.
What we set out to do
- Correct first. Every date and time is computed, not copied, and shown for the city you live in.
- Respect for tradition. Where schools and regions differ, we say so instead of picking a side.
- Free to read. The panchang, calendars, festival pages and tools are free, paid for by clearly labelled advertising and by the marketplace.
- Fair to pandits and temples. Listing is free; pandits keep most of what they earn; ratings come only from real bookings.
How the panchang is computed
Every value is calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris, the astronomical library used by professional astrologers and planetaria, with the Lahiri (Chitrapaksha) ayanamsha adopted by the Government of India's Calendar Reform Committee. For each city we compute sunrise and sunset for its exact coordinates and time zone, then the tithi, nakshatra, yoga and karana at sunrise with their end times, Rahu kaal and other periods, hora, and the planets' sidereal positions.
Festival and vrat dates follow the classical rules of the dharmashastra texts (udaya tithi, pradosh, nishitha and the other time-of-day rules; Bhadra for Raksha Bandhan and Holika Dahan), applied to that city's own sunrise. This is why a festival can fall on a different date in London than in Delhi. Each festival page states the rule it uses. Muhurat lists apply the traditional tithi, nakshatra, weekday and exclusion rules and are a starting point for a conversation with your family priest. See our disclaimer.
Calculations run automatically every night and are published by early morning in every time zone. We check them against standard almanacs and fix discrepancies at the source.
How we write
News is based on at least two independent or official sources, linked in every story. AI tools help us draft, and we are open about exactly how and how people check the result: read our editorial standards. Advertising never influences what we write.
Data and credits
Panchang, muhurat and chart values are computed with the Swiss Ephemeris (Lahiri ayanamsha); see how we calculate. City coordinates, time zones and names: GeoNames, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Temple facts: Wikidata (CC0) and © OpenStreetMap contributors. Scripture texts in Sanskrit are in the public domain.
Contact
Readers: namaste@divyapanchangam.com. Orders, bookings and privacy: support@divyapanchangam.com. Astrologers, pandits, temples and press: partners@divyapanchangam.com. More on our contact page. Corrections are always welcome. Registered office: 71-75 Shelton Street, London WC2H 9JQ, United Kingdom.
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