Marriage Muhurat Dates 2026 — month by month विवाह

Every marriage date in 2026 that clears the classical panchang tests — 41 in total, grouped by month. The rules being applied, and the reasoning behind them, are set out on the Marriage muhurat hub.

Scanned 365 days of 2026 at New Delhi sunrise · 41 clear every classical bar for this occasion.

These are panchang-shortlisted dates, not a personal verdict. Each date below clears the classical tithi, vara, nakshatra, yoga and karana tests for this occasion, computed with a Lahiri sidereal ephemeris at New Delhi sunrise. The lagna rising at the hour you actually choose, your own birth chart (Chandra bala, running dasha, any dosha) and the day’s Rahu Kaal are NOT checked here — that layer only exists once a date is run against a real chart on the muhurat finder or with Soma.

No qualifying date falls in January — those months are closed for this occasion by the bars described above, not by a shortage of candidates.

What 2026 actually looks like for marriage

The 365-day scan of 2026 produces 41 dates for marriage — 16 rated Excellent and 25 rated Good — spread across 11 of the twelve months. The first falls on 20 February 2026 (Shukla Tritiya, Uttara Bhadrapada) and the last on 12 December 2026 (Shukla Tritiya, Uttara Ashadha). 2027 yields 40, so 2026 is the more open of the two by 1 date. The difference is not preference: it is where that year's barred solar months, combustion windows and lunar boundaries happen to fall.

June is the richest month of 2026 for this act with 6 dates, and March the thinnest open month with 1. 1 month of this year — Jan — carry no qualifying date at all, and the table below names the bar that was doing most of the work in each.

The solar bars for marriage fall in 2026 on 1 January 2026 – 14 January 2026 (Sun in Sagittarius, 14 days), 15 March 2026 – 14 April 2026 (Sun in Pisces, 31 days), 17 December 2026 – 31 December 2026 (Sun in Sagittarius, 15 days). Those ranges are computed from the Sun's own sidereal ingresses this year, which is why they sit a day or two off where they sat last year rather than on a fixed calendar date.

Venus is combust — Shukra asta, which closes this calendar outright — for 2 stretches of 2026: 1 January 2026 – 18 February 2026 (49 days), 20 October 2026 – 29 October 2026 (10 days). No date inside those windows appears in the table above however well the tithi and star read.

Jupiter is combust — Guru asta — for 15 July 2026 – 13 August 2026 (30 days) in 2026, and that window is barred here too.

The longest run of 2026 with no qualifying date in it is 50 days, from 1 January 2026 to 20 February 2026. If your own window falls inside it, the honest answer is that this year has nothing to offer there and the adjacent year is the place to look.

Which stars and weekdays carried 2026's dates

The shortlist above is not spread evenly. These are the actual counts from 2026's own qualifying set — a different set from the adjacent year's, so a star that dominates one year can be almost absent in the next simply because of where the Moon's returns fall against the barred windows.

Stars carrying the most dates: Rohini (6×), Swati (5×), Uttara Ashadha (4×), Uttara Bhadrapada (3×), Mrigashira (3×), and 10 more.

Weekdays: Thursday (9×), Monday (8×), Wednesday (8×), Friday (7×), Sunday (6×), and 1 more.

Tithis: Tritiya (6×), Trayodashi (6×), Dashami (5×), Panchami (5×), Ekadashi (5×), and 6 more.

All 11 of this act's favoured stars carried at least one date in 2026, which is unusual: in most years two or three of them fall only on days some other test has already closed.

Why the other 324 days of 2026 did not make the list

Nothing above is a shortage of data: every rejected day was rejected by a named classical test, and in 2026 the single biggest was Rikta tithi, which alone accounted for 62 days — 17.0% of the year, ahead of barred solar month on 60. The tests themselves are set out on the Marriage hub; the tally below is 2026's alone, because the bars sit on different dates each year.

Where 2026's marriage dates part company with the neighbouring rites

Adjacent rites share most of their classical tests, so their shortlists overlap; the same 365 sunrises were therefore scored a second time against each neighbour's own profile, and every difference below carries that rite's own reason.

Of the 4 rites compared, Gold Purchase's 2026 calendar sits furthest from this one — 50 days on which exactly one of the two is open — and Engagement / Roka's closest, at 38. If one visit is to carry two of these rites, the shared column is where a day that serves both will be.

Is a date rated Excellent here good for every couple?

No. These dates clear the general panchang tests only. The bride's and groom's Moon signs, their running dashas, Manglik considerations and the strength of the seventh house can each veto a date that looks flawless on a calendar, or rescue one that is merely Good. That personal layer is the whole point of running a shortlisted date against both birth charts.

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How these marriage dates were computed

For 2026 specifically that meant scoring 365 sunrises and keeping 41 of them, with Rikta tithi doing the most work of any single bar — 62 days of 2026. The earliest date it left standing is 20 February 2026 and the latest 12 December 2026. Nothing dropped is left implicit: the reason for each rejection is named in the tally above.

Tithi, nakshatra, yoga and karana are read at sunrise in New Delhi from a Lahiri sidereal ephemeris; the Sun's sidereal sign drives the solar-month exclusions and the Sun–Venus and Sun–Jupiter separations drive the asta (combustion) bars.

The tests are Marriage's own, listed in full on the Marriage hub: 11 of the twenty-seven nakshatras carry its star bonus, 7 of the fifteen tithis its tithi bonus, and 4 weekday lords its weekday bonus. A waxing-fortnight day scores one point more. Across 2026's 365 sunrises those three were met on 149, 170 and 209 days, and 41 days cleared every bar and still scored 6 or better. Beyond the bars every act on this site carries, marriage additionally rules out Kharmas / Meen Malmas — Sun in Sagittarius or Pisces, Tuesday as a weekday, every day Venus is combust (Shukra asta) and every day Jupiter is combust (Guru asta). It reclaims Mula and Magha from the sharp-and-fierce group that almost every other beginning here bars outright. Where a family practice differs from what is written here, the family practice governs.

Written and maintained by Savan Vyas. Corrections are welcome — a rule we have applied wrongly is a bug, and we would rather hear about it.

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