About SubhMuhurat

SubhMuhurat publishes computed muhurat shortlists for 20 rites and acts, with the classical rule behind every date written out beside it, and with the limits of the method stated on the same page as the result rather than in a disclaimer nobody reads.

What this site actually is

It is a calendar engine with its reasoning exposed. For each occasion the site holds a rule profile — the favoured nakshatras, the favoured tithis within their fortnight, the weekday lords that suit the act, the paksha it belongs to, and the hard bars that veto a day outright — and runs every day of 2026 and 2027 against it. That is 365 days of sky read at New Delhi sunrise per year, per occasion, from which 892 dates survive across the whole 2026 catalogue. Alongside them sit 20 guides that teach the mechanisms themselves, and daily kaal and Choghadiya pages for 30 cities.

The distinction that organises all of it is between an act and a day. Most muhurat sites publish days: a list of dates labelled auspicious, with nothing said about what they are auspicious for. But the texts do not work that way. Marriage reclaims Magha and Mula, two stars barred from nearly every other beginning. Surgery inverts the usual rule entirely and wants the sharp nakshatras a housewarming must avoid. Vehicle purchase wants movable stars; a foundation stone wants fixed ones. A single list of good days can only be right about one of those and silently wrong about the rest, so this site does not publish one.

Two tiers, and which one this is

A complete muhurat has two layers. The first is the panchang layer, which is public and computable: the tithi, the weekday and its lord, the nakshatra the Moon occupies, the yoga, the karana, the solar month, and whether Venus or Jupiter is currently invisible for being too close to the Sun. The second is the personal layer — the ascendant rising at the chosen hour, the querent's own Moon, the running dasha, the doshas a family astrologer weighs. This site computes the first layer completely and the second not at all, and every table here says so above the first row. The chart-aware verdict lives in the muhurat finder and with Soma; what you get here is the shortlist that verdict starts from.

We think that split is worth being loud about, because the failure mode of this whole category is a site that presents the cheap half as if it were the whole answer. A rating on this site means "this date clears the classical tests a calendar can settle". It does not mean the date is right for you, and no amount of green pills on a table can make it mean that.

Who writes it

SubhMuhurat is written and maintained by Savan Vyas, who also builds the AskSoma astrology engine these computations descend from. The astronomical layer is a sidereal ephemeris using the Lahiri ayanamsa — the value adopted by the Indian Calendar Reform Committee and used by the Rashtriya Panchang — with a NOAA solar-position model for sunrise and sunset at each city's exact coordinates. The editorial layer, meaning every rule profile and every guide, is hand-written and signed. There is no anonymous content team here and no generated filler: if a paragraph would read the same with a different rite pasted into it, it does not ship.

What we will not do

We will not tell you a date is lucky, because a panchang describes the sky and does not make promises. We will not fear-sell an inauspicious window — where a stretch is barred, the page says which classical bar closes it and points at the next open date instead of dwelling on the danger. We do not gate a computed date behind an email address, we do not run an interstitial over a table, and we do not publish a date we have not computed: a page here exists because there is real engine output to put on it, and when the output for a year is empty the page says the year is closed.

Corrections

Everything here is checkable on purpose. The rules are printed above the tables, the method is set out in full at how we compute muhurat, and the reference reading for the day this page was last built — Krishna Dvitiya at 05:42 in New Delhi — is the same computation every occasion page draws on. A rule applied wrongly is a bug, and we would genuinely rather hear about it: Contact.

For a full personalised muhurat matched to your own birth chart, ask Soma on AskSoma.