It is increasingly common for one partner to be born in India and the other in the US, UK, or elsewhere, sometimes to Indian parents living abroad. This raises a fair question: does being born on different continents change how matching works?
What changes: the input, not the method
Each chart is computed from that person’s own birth date, time and place, converted to the correct local time zone and coordinates. A birth in Chicago and a birth in Chennai are each computed with their own local sunrise, sidereal time and coordinates, exactly as precisely as a birth in the next city over.
What does not change: the matching rules
Once both charts exist, Ashtakoota guna milan compares them the same way regardless of where either person was born. Nakshatra, rashi and the resulting doshas are the same categories everywhere in the world; the sky does not have different rules by continent.
Where mistakes actually happen
The real risk is not astrological, it is data entry: getting the birth time zone wrong, or converting it incorrectly, shifts the whole chart. Double-check the birth city’s time zone at the exact birth date, since some places have changed time zone rules over the decades.
Run the match
Use the kundli matching tool with accurate birth details for both people, wherever they were born.
For more on matching and marriage logistics across countries, see the guide for Indians abroad.
This information is descriptive; it does not make the marriage decision for you.