Wedding Muhurat 2026-2027: Vivah Dates Month by Month

Which are the auspicious wedding muhurat dates for 2026 and 2027?

For the rest of 2026, the Hindu wedding season reopens after Devotthana Ekadashi on 21 November, with vivah muhurats on 21, 24, 25 and 26 November and 1, 2, 3, 4, 11, 12 and 13 December. In 2027 the main windows run January to March, 18 April to 12 July, and November to mid-December; August, September and October stay closed for Chaturmas.

Every year around October, the same message lands in family groups: the wedding dates are out. Halls get booked, priests get busier, and suddenly everyone is negotiating over the same four weekends. Behind the scramble sits a genuinely old system. A vivah muhurat is chosen from the panchang — the five limbs of tithi (lunar day), vara (weekday), nakshatra (the Moon's mansion), yoga and karana — together with the condition of Jupiter and Venus, the two planets tradition most associates with marriage. When either is combust or the calendar enters Chaturmas, the wedding season simply pauses.

Wedding muhurat dates: the rest of 2026

The monsoon months are quiet by design. The season reopens once Vishnu 'wakes' on Devotthana Ekadashi (21 November 2026), and the year closes with a compact winter window:

• November 2026 — 21, 24, 25, 26 (the season opener, so expect heavy demand).
• December 2026 — 1, 2, 3, 4, 11, 12, 13.

Wedding muhurat dates: 2027, month by month

The 2027 calendar is generous. Month by month, the commonly listed vivah muhurats are:

• January 2027 — 15, 18, 19, 20, 24, 26, 27, 30, 31 (season begins after Makar Sankranti).
• February 2027 — 2, 3, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 28.
• March 2027 — 2, 3, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 28.
• April 2027 — 18, 19, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28.
• May 2027 — 4, 7, 8, 9, 13 to 25, 30, 31 (the biggest month of the year).
• June 2027 — 1, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 26, 27, 28.
• July 2027 — 7, 8, 9, 11, 12 (the last dates before the monsoon pause).
• August, September, October 2027 — no wedding muhurats; this is Chaturmas.
• November 2027 — 10, 11, 15, 16, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29.
• December 2027 — 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14.

One honest caveat before you circle anything: these lists are compiled from widely used panchang calculations, but panchangs differ by region and tradition. A date that appears in a North Indian drik-based list may shift by a day in a Tamil or Telugu panchang, and some families follow their own sampradaya's calendar entirely. Treat this as the map of the season, not the final booking confirmation.

Why the calendar closes in the monsoon

The four months of Chaturmas — roughly mid-July to mid-November — are traditionally a time of inward practice, when Vishnu is said to rest and large ceremonies like weddings are paused. Layered on top are shorter closures: the periods when Jupiter or Venus are combust (too close to the Sun to be seen), and the occasional adhik maas, the intercalary 'extra month'. None of this is superstition layered on the calendar; it is the calendar. The rhythm of open and closed seasons is what makes the open dates feel like a collective exhale.

A good date on the calendar is not automatically your date

Here is the part the printed lists cannot do. A general muhurat says the day itself is clean — the tithi is supportive, the nakshatra is gentle, Jupiter and Venus are behaving. Your personal muhurat asks a second question: is this day clean for these two people? That depends on both partners' janma nakshatras and Moon signs, the tara bala (how the day's nakshatra counts from each birth star), and the rising lagna at the exact hour the ceremony begins. Two couples marrying on the same popular date can have very different charts for their weddings. Our fuller wedding muhurat guide walks through that personal layer, and the general logic of choosing an auspicious muhurat applies to every ceremony, not only weddings.

How to use this calendar well

• Shortlist two or three dates from the general calendar instead of fixating on one — venues and priests book out fast.
• Have both birth details ready early; refining a date from two charts takes a little time.
• Ask which panchang your family follows, and check the date against that tradition specifically.
• Within a good date, the lagna (rising sign) of the ceremony hour matters — the same day can hold a lovely morning and a flat evening.
• Hold the logistics lightly: a slightly less famous date that suits both charts often serves better than the season's busiest weekend.

If you share both partners' birth details with Astro Ratan on WhatsApp, it can count the tara from each janma nakshatra, flag the dates in these windows that genuinely suit the two of you, and suggest the stronger hours within the day — calmly, and in plain language.