The shubh vivah muhurat dates, worked out from an ephemeris rather than copied from a list. Each date shows the nakshatra, the tithi, the weekday and the hours the window is actually open — and every empty stretch is labelled with the season that closed it, so a gap is never left unexplained.
These are the days that clear the general rules, not the final hour. A full muhurat is chosen against both birth charts and your family’s tradition. Start here, then take the shortlist to your astrologer. Check the match itself first if you have not yet.
Could not work those dates out just now — try again in a moment.
The auspicious time for a wedding. Four things have to line up — the nakshatra the moon is in, the tithi, the weekday, and the lunar month — and none of the closed seasons may be running. A full muhurat also weighs both birth charts, which is what a family astrologer adds to a list like this one.
Two long seasons close the calendar. Chaturmas runs from Devshayani Ekadashi to Devuthani Ekadashi, roughly July to November. Kharmas runs whenever the Sun is in Sagittarius or Pisces, which takes out mid-December to mid-January and mid-March to mid-April. Between them, well over half the year carries no weddings at all.
Venus, the planet of marriage, passing too close to the Sun to be seen. Tradition holds that no wedding takes place while it is set, and the same applies to Jupiter. These periods move every year and are the single most common reason a date that looks fine on a calendar is refused by an astrologer.
Eleven of the twenty-seven: Rohini, Mrigashira, Magha, Uttara Phalguni, Hasta, Swati, Anuradha, Moola, Uttara Ashadha, Uttara Bhadrapada and Revati. Some families also accept Chitra and Punarvasu, which is why the rule applied is printed against every date here.
Because tithi and nakshatra change at their own hours, not at midnight. A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, so a date can carry a perfectly good muhurat at ten in the evening or in the small hours of the following morning. The exact dates and times are given for every window.
Yes, a little. The panchang is read at sunrise, and sunrise differs by close to an hour between Kolkata and Ahmedabad, so a window that opens just before dawn can belong to a different day in the two places. Any city in the world works here, not a shortlist, so a family in Coimbatore, Guwahati, Toronto or Nairobi gets their own sunrise rather than Delhi’s — and where the clock changes for daylight saving, that is applied for each date rather than assumed.
No, and it is not meant to be. This gives the days that clear the general rules — the shortlist an astrologer starts from. The hour itself is chosen against both birth charts, the lagna and your family tradition.
Not sure of the birth star? Find your nakshatra and rashi. Matching first? Guna Milan or the ten poruthams.