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Shradh Tithi Calculator — for your city, not someone else’s
Pitru Paksha dates are not the same everywhere. Compute the exact Shradh calendar for the city where the rite will actually be performed.
Shradh is performed on the tithi — the lunar day — on which your ancestor died, not the English date. Enter what you know and we will find it.
A tithi is the angle between the Moon and the Sun, divided into thirty parts. The Shradh day for a tithi is the day on which that tithi is present during Aparahna Kaal — the fourth of the five equal parts of daylight, roughly 1:00 to 3:30 PM.
Aparahna Kaal is built from local sunrise and sunset. That is the entire reason your dates are not India’s dates. Change the city and the calendar genuinely changes — it is not a rounding error, and it is not a website being careless.
This calculator agrees with Drik Panchang on the years we have tested, including the one-day shift for North America. But panchang traditions differ on how to resolve a tithi that begins late in the afternoon, and a family’s own tradition may resolve it differently. The two ends of the fortnight are reliable. If your ancestor’s tithi falls in the disputed middle, ask your family pandit — or ask us and we will check it for free, whether or not you ever book with us.
The most important rite costs nothing
Tarpan — water and black sesame, poured facing south, with their names said aloud. Five minutes. No priest, no booking.
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