Telugu Calendar (Telugu Panchangam with Tithi & Nakshatram)

About the Telugu Calendar (Telugu Panchangam with Tithi & Nakshatram)

A month of the Telugu calendar — the chandramana calendar of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Karnataka — for your own town. Every day shows its tithi, paksha and nakshatram at sunrise and the Telugu month (Chaitram to Phalgunam), with the adhika masam named in a year that has one and the samvatsara of the sixty-year cycle from Ugadi. Festivals — Ugadi, Sri Rama Navami, Vinayaka Chavithi, Dasara, Deepavali, Karthika Pournami, Bhogi, Sankranti and Kanuma, Vaikunta Ekadashi — are marked with every Pournami, Amavasya, Ekadashi and Sankashtahara Chaturthi. Tap a day for its panchangam and its Rahu kalam, Yamagandam and Gulika.

The same calendar is shown in Telugu, Kannada or English names, so Karnataka’s families can read it in their own script. The months run from new moon to new moon and are named after the sign the Sun is in at the new moon, the rule of the Rashtriya Panchang; every month beginning matches its table for Maharashtra, Gujarat, Andhra and Karnataka. Print the month on A4 or Letter, save it as CSV, or add the year’s festivals to your phone calendar. Everything is calculated on your device.

How the Telugu months are worked out

A chandramana month runs from one new moon to the next (amanta) and is named after the sidereal sign the Sun is in at the new moon that begins it: a new moon while the Sun is in Meena begins Chaitram, in Mesha Vaishakham, and so on. When two new moons fall while the Sun stays in one sign, the first month is adhika (extra) and the second nija; festivals are kept in the nija month. A month or paksha begins on the day whose sunrise falls in its Pratipada — or on the day a short (kshaya) Pratipada begins and ends, as on Ugadi in 2026 — which is how the Rashtriya Panchang’s tables count it.

The tests compare all twenty-six paksha beginnings of the Rashtriya Panchang’s table for Saka 1948 at its central station; all agree. At Hyderabad one of them comes a day earlier — Nija Jyeshtham’s Bahula paksha, whose Pratipada begins at 05:27 IST on 30 June 2026, after the central station’s sunrise but before Hyderabad’s — because the calendar follows the town’s own sunrise.

The year, tithi and nakshatram

• Year: the Shalivahana Shaka year and the samvatsara begin at Ugadi, Chaitra Shukla Pratipada. The samvatsara is the one the Rashtriya Panchang lists under “south Indian usage” in its table of eras, named from Prabhava to Akshaya.
• Tithi and nakshatram: the ones current at sunrise name the day; the panchangam gives when they end and what follows. A “+” marks a tithi that begins and ends before the next sunrise, a ² the second day of a tithi.
• Pournami and Amavasya are kept on the day whose sunrise they cover; Ekadashi follows the Smarta rule, with the Vaishnava day when it differs (Toli Ekadashi is Ashadha Shukla Ekadashi); Sankashtahara Chaturthi is the day Bahula Chavithi is current at moonrise.

Festivals and the rules they follow

• Ugadi: Chaitra Shukla Pratipada at sunrise.
• Bhogi, Makara Sankranti and Kanuma: the day the Sun enters Makara — the next day when it enters after sunset — with Bhogi the day before and Kanuma the day after (Telugu and English names only; Karnataka keeps Sankranti).
• Vaikunta Ekadashi: the Shukla Ekadashi of the solar month Dhanus, on the day it is current at sunrise.
• By the tithi, with the Rashtriya Panchang’s rules: Sri Rama Navami (midday), Akshaya Tritiya, Guru Pournami, Sri Krishna Janmashtami, Vinayaka Chavithi (midday), Swarna Gowri Vrata (Kannada names only), Navaratri, Durgashtami, Mahanavami, Vijaya Dashami (afternoon), Naraka Chaturdashi (dawn), Deepavali (Amavasya at dusk), Karthika Pournami, Vasantha Panchami, Ratha Saptami and Maha Shivaratri (midnight).

The tests check Ugadi, Bhogi, Sankranti, Kanuma, Vaikunta Ekadashi, Vinayaka Chavithi, Vijaya Dashami and Deepavali against the Indian Astronomical Ephemeris and the Rashtriya Panchang.

Local almanacs

This calendar is computed from the true positions of the Sun and the Moon (drik ganita), as the Rashtriya Panchang is. Some almanacs use the older siddhantic methods or another place’s sunrise, so a tithi, a festival or the start of a month can differ by a day when the change comes close to sunrise. For temple festivals, follow the temple’s own almanac.

Sources

• India Meteorological Department, Positional Astronomy Centre: Rashtriya Panchang — Regional calendars, Chronological eras, Explanation and Principal festivals — and the festival criteria of the Indian Astronomical Ephemeris; the Telugu and Kannada names follow the Rashtriya Panchang’s Telugu and Kannada editions.
• D. Cross, astronomy-engine (MIT licence): the positions of the Sun and the Moon and the searches for sunrise, sunset and moonrise.
• GeoNames (CC BY 4.0): the towns, coordinates and time zones of the place search.

Limitations

• Almanacs that use siddhantic methods or another town’s sunrise can show a tithi, festival or month start a day earlier or later.
• Regional festivals with rules of their own (Varalakshmi Vratam on the Friday before Shravana Pournami, Bathukamma, Bonalu) are not placed; the tithi and nakshatram of every day are shown so you can find them.
• Times are for a level horizon at sea level; hills change sunrise and sunset by a few minutes.
• Years from 1900 to 2100 are supported. Where the Sun does not rise or set (near the poles) the day is counted from midnight.

Privacy

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