Chicago Panchang today

Tithi

The lunar day active at local sunrise.

Nakshatra

The Moon's star mansion at local sunrise.

Sunrise / sunset

Solar day bounds for Chicago in Central Time.

Rahu Kalam

An inauspicious daytime interval derived from the local solar day.

Muhurat

Auspicious windows (for example Brahma Muhurat or Abhijit) for this city's sunrise–sunset day.

Choghadiya

Day and night segments (Amrit, Shubh, Labh, and others) derived from this city's local solar day — used to choose auspicious windows.

Lemont's hilltop temple and Aurora's Balaji temple split the metro: Gujarati and Hindi-speaking families lean Lemont, Telugu and Tamil families lean Aurora. Both are an hour behind New York, so a '9am IST satsang livestream' lands at 10:30pm the previous evening in Chicago — useless for a local vrat.

Central Time DST matches the federal US schedule. Lemont sunrise is later than the Loop; the Hindu Temple of Greater Chicago posts Central, not Eastern, times.

How we compute

• Dasha Calculator — current planetary periods from birth details
• Sade Sati Calculator — Saturn transit windows in plain English
• Life Path Number Calculator — full-date destiny number (Bhagyank)
• Free Vedic birth chart — Kundli explainer for beginners

• Hindu Temple of Greater Chicago

  Lemont

  Main Midwest panchang board; Navratri and Diwali calendars are printed in Central Time.

• Sri Venkateswara Swami Temple of Greater Chicago

  Aurora

  Suprabhatam and Saturday abhishekam follow the Aurora sunrise, not Tirupati.

• BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir

  Bartlett

  Sunday assembly timed to Central; Ekadashi thaal follows the local tithi.