Namakaran, Annaprashan & Mundan Muhurat, 2026 & 2027

Why one year is wider than the other

2027 returns 45 qualifying days for a child samskara and 2026 returns 33. The filter is identical in both and so is the closure list, so the whole difference is in where the closures fall — an intercalary lunar month in 2026 and not in 2027, and combustions that cost 45 days in 2026 against 8 days in 2027 because a combustion inside Chaturmas takes days Chaturmas had already shut. Take those two out of both years and the gap in open days falls from 73 days to 6; the cluster page works that through for all 7 occasions.

For this rite the effect is uneven rather than a shift. November 2 then 8, January 0 then 3, March 0 then 3, June 2 then 5 — 2 months of the twelve return the same count in both years, and even those do not return the same dates. 8 calendar dates qualifies in both years: 18 February, 26 February, 25 June, 30 July, 1 October, 25 November, 26 November, 3 December.

“Open days in the calendar” counts the days no closure covers at all, before any limb is read, and is the same figure for every occasion. The two columns before it are this rite’s own.

Every qualifying day, in full

The whole shortlist on one page — 78 days across 22 months of 2026 and 2027, with the tithi and nakshatra that carried each. Between them sits the longest empty stretch of the two years: 52 days from 27 February 2026 to 19 April 2026 with nothing available for this rite at all.

Each date links to its own panchang page for the end times of the tithi and nakshatra, and for Rahu Kaal and Abhijit inside the day. The window for the ceremony itself is elected inside one of these days against the charts of the people involved — that is a second pass no calendar can do.

The filter, in full

Three rites, one list of days

The three rites share one panchang filter, so the qualifying days are the same for all three. What differs is the count from birth — days for the naming, months for the first food, years for the first hair-cut — which is why each has its own table below.

Counted backwards, the 78 days of 2026 and 2027 answer for children born between 6 February 2023 and 29 November 2027 — because a naming reaches back ten days and a first hair-cut three years.

• Namakaran (naming) · counted in days from birth, 3 accepted counts

  Births served: 22 January 2026 – 29 November 2027 · 204 distinct birth dates

• Annaprashan (first food) · counted in months from birth, 4 accepted counts

  Births served: 6 June 2025 – 9 July 2027 · 278 distinct birth dates

• Mundan (first hair-cut) · counted in years from birth, 2 accepted counts

  Births served: 6 February 2023 – 9 December 2026 · 156 distinct birth dates

The muhurat finder still lists the three separately if you want one of them on its own.

Which of its own nakshatras did the work

A set of 16 nakshatras does not contribute evenly. Hasta produced the most qualifying days for this rite across 2026 and 2027, 8 of the 78. Every one of them produced at least one.

• Hasta8
• Revati7
• Mrigashira6
• Chitra6
• Punarvasu6
• Uttara Phalguni5
• Uttara Ashadha5
• Anuradha5
• Ashwini5
• Shravana5
• Pushya4
• Swati4
• Rohini3
• Uttara Bhadrapada3
• Dhanishta3
• Shatabhisha3

By weekday. Of the 4 weekdays this rite accepts, Friday returned the most at 24 days — Friday 24, Wednesday 19, Thursday 18, Monday 17. The weekday is the one limb whose supply the calendar fixes rather than the sky: 2026 and 2027 together hold 418 days of an accepted weekday, 330 of them outside a closure, and 78 survive the rest of the filter.

What the closures cost this rite

2 of the 5 kinds of closed period apply here, removing 152 days across 2026 and 2027 before a limb is read. 22 of those days would have passed all five limbs — that is the real cost of the list, and it is why a calendar that skips the closures returns dates this one does not. Not applied: Asta, Holashtak, Chaturmas.

Questions

The other 6 occasions

Qualifying days in 2026 and 2027, computed with each occasion’s own filter.

Next

• All 7 occasions, 2026 & 2027
• The muhurat finder
• Shubh muhurat, in prose
• Today’s panchang

Computed at sunrise for New Delhi from the JPL DE421 ephemeris. Tithi, nakshatra, yoga and karana are Sun–Moon angles and hold anywhere in India; sunrise and the windows derived from it shift with longitude.