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Opening a Bank Account Muhurat Dates 2026 — month by month नया बैंक खाता

Every opening a bank account date in 2026 that clears the classical panchang tests — 51 in total, grouped by month. The rules being applied, and the reasoning behind them, are set out on the Opening a Bank Account muhurat hub.

Opening an account is a small act with a specific classical shape: you are not acquiring wealth, you are building the container it will sit in. That points at the fixed nakshatras for durability — Rohini, Uttara Phalguni, Uttara Ashadha, Uttara Bhadrapada — together with Pushya, the star of nourishment and the one every purchase and every deposit tradition converges on. Thursday is the primary weekday, since Jupiter governs accumulation and increase, with Friday behind it for Venus. Saturday is avoided for a new financial arrangement on the same reasoning that keeps it away from vehicle deliveries.

Scanned 365 days of 2026 at New Delhi sunrise · 51 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.

DateTithiNakshatraWhy it qualifiesRating
January 2026 — 4 dates
Thu, 1 JanShukla TrayodashiRohiniRohini is a classical star for this act; Trayodashi is a favoured tithiExcellent
Mon, 5 JanKrishna DvitiyaPushyaPushya is a classical star for this act; Dvitiya is a favoured tithiGood
Tue, 20 JanShukla DvitiyaShravanaShravana is a classical star for this act; Dvitiya is a favoured tithiGood
Wed, 28 JanShukla DashamiKrittikaDashami is a favoured tithi; the weekday lord supports this actGood
February 2026 — 3 dates
Fri, 6 FebKrishna PanchamiHastaHasta is a classical star for this act; Panchami is a favoured tithiGood
Fri, 20 FebShukla TritiyaUttara BhadrapadaUttara Bhadrapada is a classical star for this act; Tritiya is a favoured tithiExcellent
Thu, 26 FebShukla DashamiMrigashiraDashami is a favoured tithi; the weekday lord supports this actGood
March 2026 — 3 dates
Sun, 1 MarShukla TrayodashiPushyaPushya is a classical star for this act; Trayodashi is a favoured tithiExcellent
Fri, 20 MarShukla DvitiyaRevatiDvitiya is a favoured tithi; the weekday lord supports this actGood
Wed, 25 MarShukla SaptamiMrigashiraSaptami is a favoured tithi; the weekday lord supports this actGood
April 2026 — 4 dates
Thu, 2 AprShukla PurnimaHastaHasta is a classical star for this act; the weekday lord supports this actGood
Mon, 20 AprShukla TritiyaRohiniRohini is a classical star for this act; Tritiya is a favoured tithiExcellent
Thu, 23 AprShukla SaptamiPunarvasuSaptami is a favoured tithi; the weekday lord supports this actGood
Wed, 29 AprShukla TrayodashiHastaHasta is a classical star for this act; Trayodashi is a favoured tithiExcellent
May 2026 — 6 dates
Fri, 8 MayKrishna ShashthiUttara AshadhaUttara Ashadha is a classical star for this act; the weekday lord supports this actGood
Wed, 13 MayKrishna EkadashiUttara BhadrapadaUttara Bhadrapada is a classical star for this act; Ekadashi is a favoured tithiGood
Thu, 14 MayKrishna DwadashiRevatiDwadashi is a favoured tithi; the weekday lord supports this actGood
Fri, 15 MayKrishna TrayodashiAshwiniTrayodashi is a favoured tithi; the weekday lord supports this actGood
Mon, 18 MayShukla DvitiyaRohiniRohini is a classical star for this act; Dvitiya is a favoured tithiExcellent
Tue, 26 MayShukla EkadashiHastaHasta is a classical star for this act; Ekadashi is a favoured tithiGood
June 2026 — 5 dates
Fri, 5 JunKrishna PanchamiShravanaShravana is a classical star for this act; Panchami is a favoured tithiExcellent
Wed, 10 JunKrishna DashamiUttara BhadrapadaUttara Bhadrapada is a classical star for this act; Dashami is a favoured tithiExcellent
Thu, 11 JunKrishna EkadashiRevatiEkadashi is a favoured tithi; the weekday lord supports this actGood
Wed, 17 JunShukla TritiyaPunarvasuTritiya is a favoured tithi; the weekday lord supports this actGood
Fri, 26 JunShukla DwadashiVishakhaDwadashi is a favoured tithi; the weekday lord supports this actGood
July 2026 — 6 dates
Tue, 7 JulKrishna SaptamiUttara BhadrapadaUttara Bhadrapada is a classical star for this act; Saptami is a favoured tithiGood
Sun, 12 JulKrishna TrayodashiRohiniRohini is a classical star for this act; Trayodashi is a favoured tithiGood
Wed, 15 JulShukla PratipadaPushyaPushya is a classical star for this act; Pratipada is a favoured tithiExcellent
Mon, 20 JulShukla SaptamiHastaHasta is a classical star for this act; Saptami is a favoured tithiGood
Fri, 24 JulShukla DashamiAnuradhaAnuradha is a classical star for this act; Dashami is a favoured tithiExcellent
Thu, 30 JulKrishna PratipadaShravanaShravana is a classical star for this act; Pratipada is a favoured tithiExcellent
August 2026 — 4 dates
Mon, 3 AugKrishna PanchamiUttara BhadrapadaUttara Bhadrapada is a classical star for this act; Panchami is a favoured tithiGood
Wed, 19 AugShukla SaptamiSwatiSaptami is a favoured tithi; the weekday lord supports this actGood
Tue, 25 AugShukla DwadashiUttara AshadhaUttara Ashadha is a classical star for this act; Dwadashi is a favoured tithiGood
Wed, 26 AugShukla TrayodashiShravanaShravana is a classical star for this act; Trayodashi is a favoured tithiExcellent
September 2026 — 6 dates
Fri, 4 SepKrishna AshtamiRohiniRohini is a classical star for this act; the weekday lord supports this actGood
Sun, 13 SepShukla DvitiyaHastaHasta is a classical star for this act; Dvitiya is a favoured tithiGood
Thu, 17 SepShukla ShashthiAnuradhaAnuradha is a classical star for this act; the weekday lord supports this actGood
Mon, 21 SepShukla DashamiUttara AshadhaUttara Ashadha is a classical star for this act; Dashami is a favoured tithiGood
Wed, 23 SepShukla DwadashiShravanaShravana is a classical star for this act; Dwadashi is a favoured tithiExcellent
Sun, 27 SepKrishna PratipadaUttara BhadrapadaUttara Bhadrapada is a classical star for this act; Pratipada is a favoured tithiGood
October 2026 — 2 dates
Thu, 1 OctKrishna PanchamiRohiniRohini is a classical star for this act; Panchami is a favoured tithiExcellent
Mon, 5 OctKrishna DashamiPushyaPushya is a classical star for this act; Dashami is a favoured tithiGood
November 2026 — 3 dates
Sun, 1 NovKrishna SaptamiPushyaPushya is a classical star for this act; Saptami is a favoured tithiGood
Fri, 6 NovKrishna DwadashiHastaHasta is a classical star for this act; Dwadashi is a favoured tithiGood
Wed, 25 NovKrishna PratipadaRohiniRohini is a classical star for this act; Pratipada is a favoured tithiExcellent
December 2026 — 5 dates
Thu, 3 DecKrishna DashamiUttara PhalguniUttara Phalguni is a classical star for this act; Dashami is a favoured tithiExcellent
Fri, 4 DecKrishna EkadashiHastaHasta is a classical star for this act; Ekadashi is a favoured tithiExcellent
Fri, 25 DecKrishna DvitiyaPunarvasuDvitiya is a favoured tithi; the weekday lord supports this actGood
Wed, 30 DecKrishna SaptamiUttara PhalguniUttara Phalguni is a classical star for this act; Saptami is a favoured tithiExcellent
Thu, 31 DecKrishna AshtamiHastaHasta is a classical star for this act; the weekday lord supports this actGood

What 2026 actually looks like for opening a bank account

The 365-day scan of 2026 produces 51 dates for opening a bank account — 18 rated Excellent and 33 rated Good — spread across 12 of the twelve months. The first falls on 1 January 2026 (Shukla Trayodashi, Rohini) and the last on 31 December 2026 (Krishna Ashtami, Hasta). 2027 yields 45, so 2026 is the more open of the two by 6 dates. The difference is not preference: it is where that year's barred solar months, combustion windows and lunar boundaries happen to fall.

May is the richest month of 2026 for this act with 6 dates, and October the thinnest open month with 2. No month of this year is completely shut.

This occasion carries no solar-month bar and no combustion bar, so nothing closes a whole season of 2026 at once. What thins the list instead is the day-level tests, whose 2026 tally is in the table below.

Qualifying dates by month, 2026
MonthDatesIf none, what shut it
January4
February3
March3
April4
May6
June5
July6
August4
September6
October2
November3
December5

The longest run of 2026 with no qualifying date in it is 27 days, from 5 October 2026 to 1 November 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: Hasta (), Rohini (), Uttara Bhadrapada (), Pushya (), Shravana (), and 10 more.

Weekdays: Wednesday (12×), Friday (12×), Thursday (11×), Monday (), Sunday (), and 1 more.

Tithis: Dashami (), Saptami (), Trayodashi (), Dvitiya (), Dwadashi (), and 7 more.

All 8 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 314 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 73 days — 20.0% of the year, ahead of barred nitya yoga on 67. The tests themselves are set out on the Opening a Bank Account hub; the tally below is 2026's alone, because the bars sit on different dates each year.

What rejected the other 314 days of 2026
ReasonDaysShare of the year
Rikta tithi7320.0%
barred nitya yoga6718.4%
barred nakshatra6116.7%
scored below the Good bar4311.8%
Vishti (Bhadra) karana3910.7%
barred weekday195.2%
Amavasya123.3%

Where 2026's opening a bank account 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.

Opening a Bank Account against its neighbouring rites, 2026
RiteIts 2026 datesShared with this pageOpen here onlyOpen there only
Gold Purchase7548327
Business Launch1813385
Company Registration1414370
The first 44 of 110 disagreements between Opening a Bank Account and these rites in 2026
DateWeekdayTithiStarOpen forWhy the other closes it
1 January 2026Thursday (Jupiter)Shukla TrayodashiRohiniOpening a Bank AccountBusiness Launch: 5/10 there — Rohini is not one of its stars
5 January 2026Monday (Moon)Krishna DvitiyaPushyaOpening a Bank AccountBusiness Launch: Krishna paksha — this act is kept to the waxing fortnight
5 January 2026Monday (Moon)Krishna DvitiyaPushyaOpening a Bank AccountCompany Registration: Krishna paksha — this act is kept to the waxing fortnight
20 January 2026Tuesday (Mars)Shukla DvitiyaShravanaOpening a Bank AccountBusiness Launch: weekday barred for this act
20 January 2026Tuesday (Mars)Shukla DvitiyaShravanaOpening a Bank AccountCompany Registration: weekday barred for this act
25 January 2026Sunday (Sun)Shukla SaptamiRevatiGold PurchaseOpening a Bank Account: 4/10 there — Revati is not one of its stars and Sunday is not one of its weekday lords
25 January 2026Sunday (Sun)Shukla SaptamiRevatiBusiness LaunchOpening a Bank Account: 4/10 there — Revati is not one of its stars and Sunday is not one of its weekday lords
28 January 2026Wednesday (Mercury)Shukla DashamiKrittikaOpening a Bank AccountGold Purchase: 5/10 there — Krittika is not one of its stars and Wednesday is not one of its weekday lords
6 February 2026Friday (Venus)Krishna PanchamiHastaOpening a Bank AccountBusiness Launch: Krishna paksha — this act is kept to the waxing fortnight
6 February 2026Friday (Venus)Krishna PanchamiHastaOpening a Bank AccountCompany Registration: Krishna paksha — this act is kept to the waxing fortnight
20 February 2026Friday (Venus)Shukla TritiyaUttara BhadrapadaOpening a Bank AccountBusiness Launch: 4/10 there — Uttara Bhadrapada is not one of its stars
20 February 2026Friday (Venus)Shukla TritiyaUttara BhadrapadaOpening a Bank AccountCompany Registration: 5/10 there — Friday is not one of its weekday lords
22 February 2026Sunday (Sun)Shukla PanchamiAshwiniGold PurchaseOpening a Bank Account: 4/10 there — Ashwini is not one of its stars and Sunday is not one of its weekday lords
22 February 2026Sunday (Sun)Shukla PanchamiAshwiniBusiness LaunchOpening a Bank Account: 4/10 there — Ashwini is not one of its stars and Sunday is not one of its weekday lords
26 February 2026Thursday (Jupiter)Shukla DashamiMrigashiraOpening a Bank AccountBusiness Launch: 5/10 there — Mrigashira is not one of its stars
26 February 2026Thursday (Jupiter)Shukla DashamiMrigashiraOpening a Bank AccountCompany Registration: 5/10 there — Mrigashira is not one of its stars
8 March 2026Sunday (Sun)Krishna PanchamiSwatiGold PurchaseOpening a Bank Account: 3/10 there — Swati is not one of its stars, Sunday is not one of its weekday lords and it wants the waxing fortnight
20 March 2026Friday (Venus)Shukla DvitiyaRevatiOpening a Bank AccountCompany Registration: 4/10 there — Revati is not one of its stars and Friday is not one of its weekday lords
21 March 2026Saturday (Saturn)Shukla TritiyaAshwiniGold PurchaseOpening a Bank Account: weekday barred for this act
28 March 2026Saturday (Saturn)Shukla DashamiPushyaGold PurchaseOpening a Bank Account: weekday barred for this act
2 April 2026Thursday (Jupiter)Shukla PurnimaHastaOpening a Bank AccountCompany Registration: 3/10 there — Hasta is not one of its stars and Purnima is not one of its tithis
4 April 2026Saturday (Saturn)Krishna DvitiyaSwatiGold PurchaseOpening a Bank Account: weekday barred for this act
12 April 2026Sunday (Sun)Krishna DashamiShravanaGold PurchaseOpening a Bank Account: 5/10 there — Sunday is not one of its weekday lords and it wants the waxing fortnight
18 April 2026Saturday (Saturn)Shukla PratipadaAshwiniGold PurchaseOpening a Bank Account: weekday barred for this act
20 April 2026Monday (Moon)Shukla TritiyaRohiniOpening a Bank AccountBusiness Launch: 4/10 there — Rohini is not one of its stars and Monday is not one of its weekday lords
21 April 2026Tuesday (Mars)Shukla PanchamiMrigashiraGold PurchaseOpening a Bank Account: 4/10 there — Mrigashira is not one of its stars and Tuesday is not one of its weekday lords
8 May 2026Friday (Venus)Krishna ShashthiUttara AshadhaOpening a Bank AccountBusiness Launch: Krishna paksha — this act is kept to the waxing fortnight
8 May 2026Friday (Venus)Krishna ShashthiUttara AshadhaOpening a Bank AccountCompany Registration: Krishna paksha — this act is kept to the waxing fortnight
9 May 2026Saturday (Saturn)Krishna SaptamiShravanaGold PurchaseOpening a Bank Account: weekday barred for this act
13 May 2026Wednesday (Mercury)Krishna EkadashiUttara BhadrapadaOpening a Bank AccountGold Purchase: 5/10 there — Wednesday is not one of its weekday lords and it wants the waxing fortnight
13 May 2026Wednesday (Mercury)Krishna EkadashiUttara BhadrapadaOpening a Bank AccountBusiness Launch: Krishna paksha — this act is kept to the waxing fortnight
13 May 2026Wednesday (Mercury)Krishna EkadashiUttara BhadrapadaOpening a Bank AccountCompany Registration: Krishna paksha — this act is kept to the waxing fortnight
14 May 2026Thursday (Jupiter)Krishna DwadashiRevatiOpening a Bank AccountBusiness Launch: Krishna paksha — this act is kept to the waxing fortnight
14 May 2026Thursday (Jupiter)Krishna DwadashiRevatiOpening a Bank AccountCompany Registration: Krishna paksha — this act is kept to the waxing fortnight
15 May 2026Friday (Venus)Krishna TrayodashiAshwiniOpening a Bank AccountBusiness Launch: Krishna paksha — this act is kept to the waxing fortnight
15 May 2026Friday (Venus)Krishna TrayodashiAshwiniOpening a Bank AccountCompany Registration: Krishna paksha — this act is kept to the waxing fortnight
17 May 2026Sunday (Sun)Shukla PratipadaKrittikaGold PurchaseOpening a Bank Account: 4/10 there — Krittika is not one of its stars and Sunday is not one of its weekday lords
18 May 2026Monday (Moon)Shukla DvitiyaRohiniOpening a Bank AccountBusiness Launch: 4/10 there — Rohini is not one of its stars and Monday is not one of its weekday lords
19 May 2026Tuesday (Mars)Shukla TritiyaMrigashiraGold PurchaseOpening a Bank Account: 3/10 there — Mrigashira is not one of its stars and Tuesday is not one of its weekday lords
26 May 2026Tuesday (Mars)Shukla EkadashiHastaOpening a Bank AccountCompany Registration: weekday barred for this act
17 June 2026Wednesday (Mercury)Shukla TritiyaPunarvasuOpening a Bank AccountGold Purchase: 4/10 there — Punarvasu is not one of its stars and Wednesday is not one of its weekday lords
17 August 2026Monday (Moon)Shukla PanchamiChitraBusiness LaunchOpening a Bank Account: 4/10 there — Chitra is not one of its stars and Monday is not one of its weekday lords
14 September 2026Monday (Moon)Shukla TritiyaChitraBusiness LaunchOpening a Bank Account: 4/10 there — Chitra is not one of its stars and Monday is not one of its weekday lords
24 September 2026Thursday (Jupiter)Shukla TrayodashiDhanishtaBusiness LaunchOpening a Bank Account: 5/10 there — Dhanishta is not one of its stars

Of the 3 rites compared, Business Launch's 2026 calendar sits furthest from this one — 43 days on which exactly one of the two is open — and Gold Purchase's closest, at 30. If one visit is to carry two of these rites, the shared column is where a day that serves both will be.

Why does Pushya appear on both the gold page and this one?

Because Pushya is the general star of acquisition and nourishment, and both acts are forms of taking something in and keeping it. It is one of a small number of nakshatras that recur across many occasions. Its notable exception — that it is barred for marriage despite being the most auspicious star for purchases — is a reminder that these lists are per-act, not a ranking of stars.

Frequently asked questions about opening a bank account in 2026

How many opening a bank account dates are there in 2026?

51 — 18 rated Excellent and 33 rated Good, out of 365 days scored. They fall across 12 of the twelve months, the first on 1 January 2026 and the last on 31 December 2026. May is the richest single month with 6.

Is the account opening or the first deposit the act being timed?

The first deposit. An empty account is a form, not a container of wealth; the classical act is the placing of money into it. This is genuinely useful in practice, because bank onboarding runs on the bank's schedule while your first transfer does not.

Can the same 2026 date serve both opening a bank account and business launch?

Usually, but not always. Of the 18 business launch dates in 2026, 13 are also on this page; 38 days are open for opening a bank account and shut for business launch, and 5 the other way round. 1 January 2026 is a opening a bank account date and not a business launch one, because there 5/10 there — Rohini is not one of its stars, while 25 January 2026 is the reverse — good for business launch, omitted here because 4/10 there — Revati is not one of its stars and Sunday is not one of its weekday lords. Both lists are scored from the same sunrises, so a date on both has cleared both sets of bars — what neither list can tell you is whether one day can carry two rites in your family's practice, which is a question for the priest conducting them.

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How these opening a bank account dates were computed

For 2026 specifically that meant scoring 365 sunrises and keeping 51 of them, with Rikta tithi doing the most work of any single bar — 73 days of 2026. The earliest date it left standing is 1 January 2026 and the latest 31 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 Opening a Bank Account's own, listed in full on the Opening a Bank Account hub: 8 of the twenty-seven nakshatras carry its star bonus, 9 of the fifteen tithis its tithi bonus, and 3 weekday lords its weekday bonus. A waxing-fortnight day scores one point more. Across 2026's 365 sunrises those three were met on 112, 220 and 157 days, and 51 days cleared every bar and still scored 6 or better. Beyond the bars every act on this site carries, opening a bank account additionally rules out Saturday as a weekday. 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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