Gulika Kalam

Overview

The Gulika Kalam API calculates the start and end times of Gulika Kalam for a specific date and geographical location. In traditional Hindu astrology, Gulika Kalam is a daily time period associated with Gulika, a subsidiary planetary influence linked to Saturn. Its timing is used in Panchang calculations and traditional Muhurta planning.

The API returns the beginning and ending timestamps through the starts_at and ends_at fields. These timings help developers display the daily Gulika Kalam period for a particular location and allow users to consider it when planning activities according to traditional Hindu astrological practices.

This endpoint is useful for building Hindu Panchang applications, daily astrology dashboards, Muhurta planners, religious calendars, and Vedic astrology software. To calculate Gulika Kalam, provide the year, month, date, time, latitude, longitude, and timezone. You can also configure the observation point as geocentric or topocentric. The API returns the calculated timings in JSON format for easy integration into web applications and mobile apps.

Request Parameters

Request Example

{
    "year": 2022,
    "month": 8,
    "date": 11,
    "hours": 6,
    "minutes": 0,
    "seconds": 0,
    "latitude": 17.38333,
    "longitude": 78.4666,
    "timezone": 5.5,
    "config": {
        "observation_point": "topocentric",
        "ayanamsha": "lahiri"
    }
}

Response Examples

Example responses returned by this API.

{
    "statusCode": 200,
    "output": "{\"starts_at\": \"2025-08-11 13:38:32.625000\", \"ends_at\": \"2025-08-11 15:14:30.750000\"}"
}

Code Examples

Use the following examples to integrate this API into your application.

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => 'https://json.freeastrologyapi.com/gulika-kalam',
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => '',
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0,
  CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'POST',
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS =>'{
    "year": 2025,
    "month": 8,
    "date": 11,
    "hours": 10,
    "minutes": 25,
    "seconds": 43,
    "latitude": 17.68009,
    "longitude": 83.20161,
    "timezone": 5.5,
    "config": {
        
        "observation_point": "geocentric",
        "ayanamsha": "lahiri"
    }
}',
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
    'Content-Type: application/json',
    'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY_HERE'
  ),
));

$response = curl_exec($curl);

curl_close($curl);
echo $response;

import requests
import json

url = "https://json.freeastrologyapi.com/gulika-kalam"

payload = json.dumps({
  "year": 2025,
  "month": 8,
  "date": 11,
  "hours": 10,
  "minutes": 25,
  "seconds": 43,
  "latitude": 17.68009,
  "longitude": 83.20161,
  "timezone": 5.5,
  "config": {
    "observation_point": "geocentric",
    "ayanamsha": "lahiri"
  }
})
headers = {
  'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY_HERE'
}

response = requests.request("POST", url, headers=headers, data=payload)

print(response.text)

var request = require('request');
var options = {
  'method': 'POST',
  'url': 'https://json.freeastrologyapi.com/gulika-kalam',
  'headers': {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY_HERE'
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "year": 2025,
    "month": 8,
    "date": 11,
    "hours": 10,
    "minutes": 25,
    "seconds": 43,
    "latitude": 17.68009,
    "longitude": 83.20161,
    "timezone": 5.5,
    "config": {
      "observation_point": "geocentric",
      "ayanamsha": "lahiri"
    }
  })

};
request(options, function (error, response) {
  if (error) throw new Error(error);
  console.log(response.body);
});