POST

Brahma Muhurat

Calculate Brahma Muhurat timings for a specific date and geographical location using traditional Hindu Panchang calculations. Identify this auspicious early-morning period for meditation, yoga, spiritual practices, and daily religious planning.

/brahma-muhurat
Method
POST
Format
JSON
Auth
API Key
Credits
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Overview

The Brahma Muhurat API calculates the start and end times of Brahma Muhurat for a specific date and geographical location. In Hindu tradition, Brahma Muhurat is an auspicious period before sunrise that is associated with meditation, prayer, yoga, spiritual study, and other contemplative practices.

The API returns the beginning and ending timestamps through the starts_at and ends_at fields. These timings allow developers to display the daily Brahma Muhurat for a particular location and help users plan their morning spiritual routines according to traditional Hindu practices.

This endpoint is useful for building Hindu Panchang applications, daily astrology dashboards, spiritual routine planners, religious calendars, and Vedic astrology software. To calculate Brahma Muhurat, 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

Parameter Type Required Description Example
year
integer Yes Year number, eg: 2023 2023
month
integer Yes Month number,with no leading zero 7
date
integer Yes Day number,with no leading zero 5
hours
integer Yes Hours number,with no leading zero 1
minutes
integer Yes Minutes number,with no leading zero 1
seconds
integer Yes Seconds number, with no leading zero 0
latitude
float Yes Latitude number, in the range from -90 to 90 12.86
longitude
float Yes Longitude number, in the range from -180 to 180 123.5
timezone
float Yes Timezone of birth location, eg: 5.5 5.5
📦 config
object No Contains optional configuration values
ayanamsha
string No Either "tropical" or "sayana" or "lahiri" Either "tropical" or "sayana" or "lahiri"
observation_point
string No Geocentric positions are calculated with respect to the center of Earth. Topocentric positions are calculated with respect to the actual given place Either "topocentric" or "geocentric"

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.

Response
{
    "statusCode": 200,
    "output": "{\"starts_at\": \"2025-08-11 04:02:35\", \"ends_at\": \"2025-08-11 04:50:35\"}"
}

Code Examples

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

PHP Code
<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => 'https://json.freeastrologyapi.com/brahma-muhurat',
  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;
Python Code
import requests
import json

url = "https://json.freeastrologyapi.com/brahma-muhurat"

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)
Node JS Code
var request = require('request');
var options = {
  'method': 'POST',
  'url': 'https://json.freeastrologyapi.com/brahma-muhurat',
  '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);
});