Hindu

Your Home screen

Choose Hindu as your community in Settings and the Home screen opens with a Today card. It gathers the day’s panchang and the muhurat windows many families look at, and its live sliders let you move through the day to see what applies at any moment.

• Panchang: the tithi and its paksha, the nakshatra from the list of 27, the lunar month, and Adhik maas when it occurs.
• Muhurat windows: Choghadiya for day and night, the Hora running now, Rahu Kaal and Abhijit muhurat.
• Sunrise and sunset for your exact location, since so much of the Hindu day is reckoned from sunrise.
• Panchak, shown on the Home screen only while it is running.

Everything is calculated on your phone from your location and the date, so the Hindu Home screen works offline.

One tradition, many regional calendars

Hindu practice is wonderfully varied, and so are its calendars. A few of the differences OIOA’s pages explain:

• Amanta and Purnimanta months. Much of western and southern India ends the lunar month at new moon; much of northern and central India ends it at full moon. The same day can carry a different month name.
• New Year. The Vikram Samvat new year is observed in Chaitra in much of North India and on the day after Diwali in Gujarat; Ugadi, Gudi Padwa, Puthandu, Vishu, Pohela Boishakh and Bihu mark new years in other regions. See Vikram, Shaka and Gujarati New Year.
• Lunar and solar months. Some regions, such as Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Odisha, Assam and Bengal, use solar months that begin at a sankranti for their civil calendars.
• Festival rules. Whether a festival follows the tithi at sunrise, at midday or at night depends on the festival and on local custom.

OIOA calculates the astronomy for your location. For the date your family observes, please follow your family priest, temple or community authority. If a regional calendar you rely on is missing, please tell us what we missed.

Days that matter

Hindu festivals are fixed mainly by the lunar calendar, so their Gregorian dates move from year to year. Our festival pages explain what each day marks and how OIOA helps you plan, without publishing dates that haven’t been verified:

• Diwali, the festival of lights
• Navratri, the nine nights

Ekadashi, Purnima, Amavasya, Sankranti and Pradosh come round every month or so. Set reminders for the ones you observe.

Understanding the panchang

If you’d like to know why the panchang says what it does, these guides start from the basics:

• What is a tithi?
• The 27 nakshatras
• What is Rahu Kaal?
• How Choghadiya works
• Adhik maas explained
• How the Hindu panchang works

In your language

The Hindu Home screen, like everything in OIOA, is available in English and 13 other languages, including Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Odia, Assamese and Punjabi. The EN ⇄ local-language toggle switches the whole page, so tithi and nakshatra names read the way you know them. See multi-language.

Shared with every community

Alongside the panchang, the Hindu Home screen has everything that every community in OIOA shares: holidays and long weekends, the GST calculator, cards, family, groups, match-making, daily prediction and reminders.

More on the Hindu calendar

• Muhurat windowsHow the Hindu Home screen in OIOA shows Choghadiya, Hora, Rahu Kaal and Abhijit muhurat together with live sliders, so you can choose a time with care.
• Panchang and Adhik maasHow OIOA's Hindu panchang shows tithi, nakshatra, paksha, lunar month and Adhik maas, and how regional month systems change the names you see.