Free Kundali - Janam Kundli by Date of Birth
Your complete janam kundali with every divisional chart, planetary period and a plain-language reading.
Your complete janam kundali with every divisional chart, planetary period and a plain-language reading.
A kundali is your birth chart - the exact position of every planet at the moment you were born. Enter your date, time and place of birth above and it is built instantly. You get the main chart, all sixteen divisional charts, your planetary periods, the doshas present, and a plain-language reading of what each part means. No sign-up, no app, no payment.
The sky is always moving. The Sun, Moon and planets each travel at their own speed against the background of the twelve signs, and at any given second they form one arrangement that will not repeat in a human lifetime. It is a photograph of that arrangement, taken at the moment and place you were born.
Two pieces of information turn that photograph into a personal chart. The planetary positions come from the date, and they are the same for everyone born that day anywhere on earth. The twelve houses come from the time and place, because they are anchored to the horizon at your location - which sign was rising in the east as you took your first breath. The horizon moves through all twelve signs every twenty-four hours, so the houses are what make your chart yours rather than everyone's who shares your birthday.
Everything else in Vedic astrology is built on top of those two layers. The divisional charts subdivide them, the planetary periods sequence them in time, and the yogas and doshas are named patterns formed between them.
The rasi chart is the main chart - the twelve houses with every planet placed by exact degree. Alongside it you get all sixteen divisional charts, from the navamsa used for marriage down to the shashtiamsa, each one a different magnification of the same birth moment.
The timing layer is the Vimshottari dasha: a 120-year cycle allotted in fixed shares to the nine grahas, starting from where the Moon sat at birth. You can drill from the major period into its sub-periods and further down again.
For strength, the chart carries ashtakavarga scores and the six-fold shadbala, which measure how much a planet can actually deliver rather than just where it sits. The named yogas present are listed with the placements that formed them, and every classical dosha is checked - including whether the conditions that cancel it are met, which most quick tools leave out.
Finally the panchanga for your birth moment: the tithi, the weekday, your birth nakshatra with its pada, the yoga and the karana.
The planets move slowly enough that an hour either way rarely changes their sign. The ascendant does not. It advances through a full sign in roughly two hours, which means a chart cast an hour late can place every house one sign off while the planets appear unchanged.
This is why a kundali by date of birth alone is useful but partial. The planetary placements will be right, and any reading built on them holds. The house-based conclusions - which area of life a planet governs for you, where the strength falls - become provisional.
If your recorded time is uncertain, the practical approach is to trust what the planets say and treat house-specific claims as a working hypothesis rather than a finding. A time known to the nearest fifteen minutes is enough for most purposes; a time known only to the nearest half-day is not.
The spellings vary by region and none of them is more correct than another. Janam kundali and janam kundli both mean the same thing, janampatri and janam patrika are the older written forms, and in the south the same document is a jataka. Whichever term brought you here - janam patrika, janampatri, jataka or online kundali - the chart underneath is identical.
What does vary between sources is the ayanamsa - the correction applied for the slow drift between the sidereal and tropical zodiacs. This tool uses Lahiri, the standard adopted by the Indian government's calendar and by most Indian astrologers. If a chart from elsewhere puts every planet a degree or two away from ours, a different ayanamsa is almost always the reason, not an error in either.
A dosha is a named affliction - a placement the classical texts flag as a problem. The eight this tool checks are Manglik, Kala Sarpa, Pitru, Guru Chandala, Ganda Moola, Kalathra, Ghata and Shrapit. Most people carry at least one, which is the first thing worth knowing: their presence is ordinary, not alarming.
What separates a serious affliction from a nominal one is cancellation. The same texts that define each dosha also define the conditions that annul it - a benefic aspect, a particular sign placement, the same affliction appearing in both charts of a couple. A tool that reports the dosha but not its cancellation gives you half the rule and the frightening half at that.
Every dosha here is reported with its cancellation status and the placement that produced the verdict, so you can see whether it stands or has been annulled, and follow the reasoning either way.
Where a dosha is an affliction, a yoga is a combination - two or more planets in a defined relationship that the texts associate with a specific result. Hundreds are named across the classical literature, and a typical chart forms a few dozen of them.
The important and widely missed point is that forming a yoga is not the same as receiving its result. Classical authorities are explicit that a combination whose planets are weak, combust, debilitated or hemmed by malefics does not deliver what its name promises. A chart can form an impressive-sounding yoga that amounts to nothing, and a modest one that carries real weight.
This is why the yogas here are listed with the placements that formed them and the strength scores of the planets involved, rather than as a bare list of names. A yoga you can audit is worth more than one you have to believe.
Start with the ascendant, since it sets the frame everything else is read against. Then find the Moon, which in Vedic practice carries more weight than the Sun for temperament and for timing.
Next look at where the majority of planets cluster. A chart weighted toward one half or one quadrant reads differently from an evenly spread one, and that shape is visible before any individual placement is interpreted.
Only then go to the specifics: which planets are strong, which are afflicted, which yogas fired. The written reading on each panel explains what it found and why, so you can follow the reasoning rather than take a verdict on trust. Tap any planet to see its exact degree, sign, nakshatra and the houses it governs for you.
Is this kundali really free?
Yes. Generating the full chart and reading every insight is free, with no sign-up and no limit. There is no paid tier holding back part of the chart - the divisional charts, the dasha timeline, the dosha checks and the written reading are all included.
What do I need to make my chart?
Three things: your date of birth, your time of birth and your place of birth. The date fixes the planetary positions, the place fixes the local horizon, and the time fixes your ascendant. With all three you get an accurate chart; with an approximate time you still get a usable chart, but the house positions become less reliable.
Can I use my kundali by date of birth only, without the time?
Partly. That alone will place the planets in their correct signs, which is enough for many readings. What it cannot fix is the ascendant and the twelve houses, since those move through a full cycle every day. If you do not know your birth time, treat the planetary placements as reliable and the house-based conclusions as provisional.
What is the difference between a kundali and a kundli?
None - they are two spellings of the same word, along with janam kundali, janam kundli and janampatri. Different regions of India favour different spellings, but all refer to the same birth chart. This tool produces the same chart whichever term you searched for.
What does the chart actually include?
The rasi chart, all sixteen divisional charts including navamsa, your Vimshottari dasha timeline down to sub-periods, ashtakavarga strength scores, shadbala, the named yogas present in your chart, every classical dosha with its cancellation checked, your full panchanga at birth, and a written reading for each area of life.
Is an online kundli as accurate as one from an astrologer?
For the calculation itself, yes - and often more so. The planetary positions come from a precise astronomical ephemeris, which removes the arithmetic errors handwritten charts can carry. What an astrologer adds is interpretation and judgement. This gives you the exact chart plus a plain-language reading; it does not replace a consultation on a difficult question.
Which ayanamsa is used?
Lahiri by default, which is the standard used by the Indian government's calendar and by most Indian astrologers. If a chart from another source differs by a degree or two on every planet, a different ayanamsa is the usual reason.
Can I make a chart for someone else?
Yes. Enter their birth details instead of your own - the tool does not require an account, so there is nothing to switch between. Many people build one for a child, a parent or a prospective partner this way.