The five limbs of the day — tithi, vara, nakshatra, yoga and karana — computed for your city and read at that city's real sunrise, along with the muhurat windows people actually plan around.
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Every muhurat window is measured from sunrise. The day from sunrise to sunset is divided into eight equal parts, and the inauspicious part is a different one for each weekday — so Rahu Kaal moves every single day, and it also shifts through the year as sunrise moves. Because it is anchored to sunrise, it is different in Delhi and in Chennai on the same date. A Panchang that prints the same Rahu Kaal for every city and every day is not computing it.
The eighth of the day that Rahu Kaal falls in is fixed by the weekday: the 8th part on Sunday, the 2nd on Monday, the 7th on Tuesday, the 5th on Wednesday, the 6th on Thursday, the 4th on Friday and the 3rd on Saturday. What changes daily is where those eighths actually fall on the clock, because sunrise and sunset move.
It is one eighth of the daylight span, different for each weekday, traditionally avoided for starting anything new. Many people simply avoid it for auspicious beginnings and carry on with routine work.
A tithi can begin or end at any moment of the day. The convention is to name the day after the tithi running at sunrise, which is why sunrise for your own city is what the calculation needs.
Sunrise and sunset are computed from coordinates, so the limbs and the muhurat windows work anywhere the sun rises and sets.
The eighth of the fifteen muhurtas of daylight, straddling local midday. It is broadly considered auspicious for beginnings.
Every calculation on this page is computed from real planetary positions using the Lahiri ayanamsa.