Minonk Panchang

About Panchang in Minonk

Hindus have timed worship, travel and new beginnings with the panchang for centuries. It reads each day through five limbs — tithi, nakshatra, yoga, karana and vara — and this page presents all five for Minonk, Illinois on 16 June 2026. Today's reckoning: Shukla Paksha Dvitiya tithi, Moon in Ardra nakshatra. Every timing shown is calculated for Minonk's own coordinates instead of being reused from an Indian city's panchang.

Here is why this page is computed for Minonk and not merely translated from an Indian almanac: the panchang's machinery turns on local sunrise. At 40.90°N, 89.03°W on America/Chicago time, Minonk's day starts and ends at its own hours. On 16 June 2026 the sun rises over Minonk at 5:23 AM and sets at 8:30 PM — figures no Indian city shares — and the inauspicious periods — Rahu Kalam, Yamaganda, Gulika — along with the choghadiya sequence and Abhijit Muhurat are all slices of that local daylight, so each sits at a different clock time than it would in India. A large timezone offset can even move the tithi onto a different calendar date.

How these timings are calculated: planetary longitudes come from the Swiss Ephemeris, the same high-precision library used by professional astrology software, with the Lahiri (Chitrapaksha) ayanamsa — the sidereal reference adopted by India's official Rashtriya Panchang. Tithi changes when the Moon moves 12° ahead of the Sun; nakshatra changes as the Moon crosses each 13°20′ arc of the zodiac. These transition moments are universal, and we convert each one into America/Chicago local time, then derive sunrise-dependent windows from Minonk's own horizon. The full method is documented on our methodology page.

If you live in Minonk or elsewhere in Illinois, use this page the way a family priest would: check the tithi and nakshatra first, then choose your hour. Abhijit Muhurat (12:26 PM – 1:27 PM) is the day's most dependable auspicious window, while Rahu Kalam (4:43 PM – 6:36 PM) is best avoided for new beginnings. The choghadiya tables above divide Tuesday's daylight and night into auspicious and inauspicious spells — every figure already in Minonk local time, with no conversion from IST required.

Read our full calculation methodology →