get_panchang
Daily Panchang (Hindu almanac)
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Returns the Hindu panchang (daily Vedic almanac) for one date at one place: the five angas (tithi with paksha, nakshatra, yoga, karana, vara with its weekday lord) each with its end time, the lunar month in AMANTA reckoning with its adhika-masa flag (omitted entirely, never substituted, if the engine cannot supply the amanta month; plus the purnimanta month where the engine supplies it), sunrise/sunset/moonrise/moonset, abhijit muhurta, the auspicious choghadiya windows, and the inauspicious periods (rahu kaal, yamaganda, gulika kala). Use this for 'what is today's panchang / tithi / nakshatra' questions. If the user wants the FULL timing surface (all 16 choghadiya, the 24 horas, varjyam, bhadra, panchak, brahma muhurta) to choose a moment for an activity, call get_muhurta_timings instead. Nakshatra here is the DAY's nakshatra, not a person's birth star -- for that use get_birth_details. Read-only deterministic computation (Swiss Ephemeris, Lahiri ayanamsa); no writes, no auth, at least 30 requests/min/IP per server instance, plus a shared engine budget of at least 60/min/IP across all engine-backed tools. Any city worldwide; window times derive from that location's actual sunrise and sunset, so they differ city to city on the same date.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| date | string | no | Gregorian date to compute, YYYY-MM-DD, e.g. 2026-07-25. Years 1200-2400. Omit to get today's date at the given place (not the server's date). |
| place | string | no | Place as free text, "City, State, Country" -- e.g. "Jaipur, Rajasthan, India". Preferred input: it is geocoded to coordinates and an IANA timezone server-side, and any city worldwide works. Omit only if you pass latitude + longitude + timezone instead. |
| latitude | number | no | Latitude in decimal degrees, -90 to 90, north positive (Delhi = 28.6139). Use only when `place` is omitted, and then longitude and timezone are required too. |
| longitude | number | no | Longitude in decimal degrees, -180 to 180, east positive (Delhi = 77.2090). Use only when `place` is omitted. |
| timezone | string | no | IANA timezone name, e.g. "Asia/Kolkata" or "America/New_York" (never an offset like "+05:30"). Required when latitude/longitude are used; ignored when `place` is given. |
Raw JSON schema
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"type": "string",
"pattern": "^\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}$"
},
"place": {
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"minimum": -90,
"maximum": 90
},
"longitude": {
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"type": "number",
"minimum": -180,
"maximum": 180
},
"timezone": {
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