Muhurtham Clock

Muhurtham Clock മുഹൂർത്ത ഘടികാരം

The Kerala panchangam turned into a clock. One glance tells you whether a kalam is running, which hora it is, and when the next good window begins, for the town you are in.

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Android first, in Malayalam and English. ₹99, no ads, no account.

The Muhurtham Clock dial with the day in butter and peach, the night in indigo, and coral and mint arcs marking the kalams and good windows

How to read the dial

One full turn is one day in the Kerala sense: from today's sunrise round to tomorrow's.

Sunrise is at the top, sunset at the bottom. The warm half (butter to peach to rose) is daylight; the indigo half with stars is the night.
A little sun travels the ring during the day, a crescent moon at night. Where it sits is now.
Coral arcs just outside the ring are the three kalams the tradition says to avoid for beginnings.
Mint arcs are the two windows it singles out as favourable: Abhijit and Brahma muhurtham.
Small ticks inside the ring mark the 24 horas; the centre names the hora running now.
The slider under the dial moves the sun through the day, and the calendar icon opens any other date.

The windows it marks

Each one is a fixed slice of the day between your town's sunrise and sunset, so the clock times are yours, not Thiruvananthapuram's or Chennai's.

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Rahu kalam രാഹുകാലം

Daylight is divided into eight equal parts; which part is Rahu kalam depends on the weekday (the eighth part on Sunday, the second on Monday, and so on, following the published panchangam table). About an hour and a half in Kerala.

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Gulika kalam ഗുളികകാലം

Another of the eight daytime parts, again fixed by the weekday: the seventh on Sunday, the sixth on Monday, down to the first on Saturday. Kerala panchangams list it beside Rahu kalam.

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Yamagandam യമകണ്ടം

The third daily kalam from the same eight-part division, with its own weekday table. The three never overlap on one day.

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Abhijit muhurtham അഭിജിത് മുഹൂർത്തം

Daylight also divides into fifteen muhurthams; the eighth, the one straddling local noon, is Abhijit, held good for most beginnings. Some traditions set it aside on Wednesdays; the app shows it and notes that in its source line.

favourable

Brahma muhurtham ബ്രഹ്മമുഹൂർത്തം

The two muhurthams (2 × 48 minutes) that end one muhurtham before sunrise, that is roughly 96 to 48 minutes before the sun comes up. The clock shows it for the sunrise still ahead.

24 a day

Hora ഹോര

Day and night are each split into twelve horas. The first hora of the day belongs to the weekday's lord, and the lords then follow the fixed order Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars through the night. Run that cycle for 24 horas and you land on the next weekday's lord, which is where the weekday order itself comes from.

Also on the screen

calendar

Malayalam month and date

The Kollavarsham date (Kanni 23, 1202 and the like) from the sun's position at sunrise, the weekday, and sunrise and sunset to the minute.

nakshatram

Nakshatram, tithi, yogam, karanam

The panchangam elements prevailing at sunrise, each with the time it ends, so you can see when today's nakshatram gives way to tomorrow's.

grahas

Where the grahas are

Sun to Ketu, each with its rashi and nakshatram for the moment shown on the dial. Move the slider and they move with it.

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Muhurtham finder

Pick an occasion (wedding, choroonu, naming, vidyarambham, grihapravesham, travel, starting a business) and a range of one to three months, and the app lists candidate windows with the reason each one qualifies. Tables still under review are shown as such.

Three screens

The clock in Malayalam The clock in English The muhurtham finder with occasion chips

How it is computed

Nothing on the dial is guessed, looked up from a printed table for another city, or written by an AI.

  1. Your town's sunrise and sunset are computed from the sun's actual position (JPL DE440s planetary tables through Skyfield), for the coordinates of the town you pick.
  2. The day runs sunrise to sunrise, the Kerala convention. At three in the morning the clock still shows the previous day's panchangam, as a panchangam would.
  3. Kalams, Abhijit and horas are then plain divisions of that daylight and night: eighths, fifteenths and twelfths. Their weekday tables are the ones published in standard panchangams.
  4. Tithi, nakshatram, yogam and karanam come from the sun's and moon's sidereal longitudes with the Lahiri ayanamsa, and their end times are solved exactly, not rounded to a printed hour.
  5. Every window carries its source line in the app, saying which convention produced it. Where our Jyotisha review of a table is not finished it is marked "needs review" and kept out of the way.

What it is not. Muhurtham Clock reports what the panchangam tradition marks for a time; it does not predict anything about you, and it is no substitute for a family astrologer's judgement on an important date, or for medical, legal or financial advice.

പഞ്ചാംഗ പാരമ്പര്യം ഒരു സമയത്തെക്കുറിച്ച് പറയുന്നത് ഈ ആപ്പ് കാണിക്കുന്നു; പ്രവചനമല്ല. പ്രധാന കാര്യങ്ങൾക്ക് കുടുംബജ്യോത്സ്യന്റെ അഭിപ്രായത്തിന് പകരമല്ല.

Questions

Why do my times differ from the printed panchangam?

Printed panchangams are computed for one reference town and often rounded to five minutes. The app uses your town's own sunrise, so Kasaragod and Thiruvananthapuram get different Rahu kalams on the same day, as they should.

Does it work without internet?

The day you last loaded stays on the phone, so the clock keeps running and the arcs stay correct until the next sunrise. Changing the town or date needs a connection.

Does it need my location?

No. You pick a town from a list; the app never asks for location permission and never reads your GPS.

Is there a night Rahu kalam?

Not yet. The night-time kalam order is still under review by our Jyotisha reader, and the app does not show anything whose source we have not checked.

What about iPhone?

The app is built for both; Android ships first. Write to us if you would like to test the iOS build.

Get the app

Muhurtham Clock is coming to Google Play as a one-time ₹99 purchase, with no ads and no account. This page will carry the store link the day it is live.

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