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.
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.
{
"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
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($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;
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)
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);
});