How to make your kundli
- Enter the date and time of birth, then start typing the town or city and pick it from the list (or enter the latitude and longitude).
- Press Make kundli. Switch between the North and South Indian chart and between the rashi (D1) and navamsa (D9) charts.
- Read the planet table and the dasha periods, and download the chart as a PNG or the whole kundli as a one-page PDF.
How it is calculated
The time of birth is turned into Universal Time with the time zone that applied at that place on that date. The positions of the Sun, Moon and planets come from astronomy-engine, an open-source ephemeris that matches NASA's JPL Horizons to within a few arcseconds. Vedic astrology measures them from a fixed point among the stars, so the Lahiri ayanamsa is subtracted: 23°51′25.53″ at the start of 2000, growing by about 50.3″ a year with the precession of the equinoxes. The lagna is the sign rising on the eastern horizon at the place of birth, found from the local sidereal time and the latitude. Each sign is 30°, each nakshatra 13°20′ and each pada 3°20′, all counted from 0° Aries (Ashwini).
Example
For a birth in New Delhi on 1 January 2000 at 17:30 IST (12:00 UTC), the ayanamsa is 23°51′11″. The lagna is Gemini (Mithuna) at 16°21′45″, in Ardra nakshatra. The Moon is at 19°28′15″ Libra, which is 12.80° into Swati (each pada is 3.33°), so its pada is 4 and the birth nakshatra is Swati 4. Saturn is in Aries and retrograde. The first dasha is Rahu, the lord of Swati, with 0.71 years left at birth.
Checked against published ephemerides
- Planet longitudes for three dates match NASA JPL Horizons (DE441) to within 10 arcseconds.
- The ayanamsa matches the values printed in the Indian Astronomical Ephemeris for 2000, 2020 and 2022 to within a second of arc.
- Lagna, Moon nakshatra and pada, and Rahu agree with drikpanchang.com's Lahiri charts for New Delhi on three dates, and with a published chart for Jawaharlal Nehru.
Looking for a match? Take the Moon's nakshatra and rashi from your kundli to the Guna Milan calculator.
For interest and tradition only, not advice: astrology isn't a science, and this tool makes no predictions. Sources: Indian Astronomical Ephemeris (Positional Astronomy Centre, India Meteorological Department), Calendar Reform Committee report (1955), J. Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms. Place list: GeoNames (geonames.org), CC BY 4.0. Checked 7 October 2026.