Choose a town or city above, and a date if you want a day other than today, and this free tool gives the Gowri panchangam of that day: the eight parts of the daytime and the eight parts of the night, each with its name and its local times, with the good parts, the nalla neram, shaded. When the date is today, it also marks the part running now.
How it works
The Gowri panchangam is the Tamil way of dividing the day. The time from sunrise to sunset is cut into eight equal parts, and so is the night from sunset to the next sunrise. Each part takes a name from a fixed table that depends on the weekday. The tool works out the sunrise and sunset for your town or city, with the upper edge of the Sun on the horizon and the usual allowance for refraction, cuts the day and the night into eighths, and names each part from the table.
The table is the one Drik Panchang publishes, which it attributes to the Pambu Panchangam of Tamil Nadu. Following Drik Panchang, five names are good, the nalla neram: Amirdha (best), Uthi, Sugam, Laabam (gain) and Dhanam (wealth). Three are to be avoided: Rogam, Soram and Visham.
Reading the result
The answer lists the good parts of the daytime. The two tables give all sixteen parts with their times, the good ones shaded. A part is an eighth of the day or of the night, so on a twelve-hour day it is an hour and a half, longer in summer and shorter in winter. A time with a date in brackets falls after midnight and still belongs to the night of the day you chose, because a panchang day runs from sunrise to sunrise.
How we checked it
We compared the tool with Drik Panchang’s Gowri panchangam pages for New Delhi for the seven days from 1 to 7 November 2026, one for each weekday. All 112 names matched in order, and every start and end time was in the same minute or one minute earlier in our table, because our sunrise and sunset come up to a minute before Drik Panchang’s. Against sunrise and sunset from the Swiss Ephemeris (pyswisseph) at 17 places and dates, the part boundaries agreed within 19 seconds, and on average within 2 seconds.
Where traditions differ
Tamil almanacs do not all print the same table. Another table we read has a different order on some weekdays, so if your family follows a particular almanac, its order is the one to keep. We follow Drik Panchang’s table as published. In that table the night of a Saturday has Soram in both the 4th and the 8th parts and no Rogam; we show it as it is printed rather than guess at a correction. Rahu kaal, Yamaganda and Gulika kaal are separate rules, and many families look at them together with the Gowri panchangam.
What it does not do
It does not give Rahu kaal or the choghadiya; for those, see today’s timings and the choghadiya page. It does not check the tithi, nakshatra or your own birth star, which a family astrologer weighs for an important event. For the day’s full panchang, open the panchang for any place.
Frequently asked questions
↳ What is nalla neram?
Nalla neram is Tamil for good time. In the Gowri panchangam it is the parts named Amirdha, Uthi, Sugam, Laabam and Dhanam.
↳ Which Gowri panchangam parts should be avoided?
Rogam, Soram and Visham. Tradition keeps new beginnings out of them; ordinary work carries on as usual.
↳ Is the Gowri panchangam the same as choghadiya?
Both cut the day and the night into eight parts and name each one, but the names and their order are different. Choghadiya is popular in Gujarat, Rajasthan and western India, as our choghadiya page explains, and the Gowri panchangam is the Tamil way.
↳ Why are the parts not one and a half hours long?
Each part is an eighth of the time from sunrise to sunset, or from sunset to the next sunrise, so it is longer on a long day and shorter on a short one. Only on a day of exactly twelve hours is it an hour and a half.
↳ Why does my printed almanac show a different order?
Tamil almanacs differ on the order for some weekdays. This tool follows the table Drik Panchang publishes from the Pambu Panchangam; if your family follows another almanac, keep to its order.
↳ Does it work outside Tamil Nadu?
Yes. Choose any town or city in the world, and the parts are worked out from its own sunrise and sunset, in its local time.