Washington, D.C. 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 Washington, D.C. in Eastern 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.

Sri Siva Vishnu Temple in Lanham is the agama anchor for the DMV; Rajdhani Mandir in Chantilly serves the Hindi-speaking belt of Fairfax. Embassy-district Indians often keep IST on their phones — that clock is wrong for a Virginia griha-pravesh muhurat.

Eastern Time with DST. Lanham (SSVT) and Chantilly (Rajdhani Mandir) share the civil date; sunrise differs by a few minutes across the Beltway.

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

• Sri Siva Vishnu Temple

  Lanham, Maryland

  Large agama complex; Brahmotsavam and Skanda Shashti follow local sunrise.

• Rajdhani Mandir

  Chantilly, Virginia

  North Indian panchang board in Eastern Time.