Griha Pravesh Muhurat, 2026 & 2027

Why one year is wider than the other

2027 returns 13 qualifying days for a griha pravesh and 2026 returns 5. 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. March 0 then 3, January 0 then 2, February 1 then 2, June 1 then 2 — 7 months of the twelve return the same count in both years, and even those do not return the same dates. One calendar date qualifies in both years: 26 November.

“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 — 18 days across 12 months of 2026 and 2027, with the tithi and nakshatra that carried each. Between them sits the longest empty stretch of the two years: 153 days from 26 June 2026 to 25 November 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

Which of its own nakshatras did the work

A set of 11 nakshatras does not contribute evenly. Revati produced the most qualifying days for this rite across 2026 and 2027, 5 of the 18, and 8 of the 11 produced any at all. The other 3 produced none — each fell only on days that another rule had already spoiled: Anuradha, Dhanishta, Shatabhisha.

• Revati5
• Uttara Ashadha3
• Uttara Bhadrapada2
• Mrigashira2
• Chitra2
• Swati2
• Rohini1
• Uttara Phalguni1

By weekday. Of the 4 weekdays this rite accepts, Thursday returned the most at 8 days — Thursday 8, Friday 4, Monday 3, Wednesday 3. 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, 158 of them outside a closure, and 18 survive the rest of the filter.

What the closures cost this rite

5 of the 5 kinds of closed period apply here, removing 453 days across 2026 and 2027 before a limb is read. 35 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.

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.