💍Marriage (Vivah)
Marriage Muhurat, August 2026
Nothing in August 2026 is available for a marriage: the month sits entirely inside Chaturmas, so the five limbs of the panchang were never the deciding factor. Which day would otherwise have been the strongest is still worth knowing, because it tells you where to look in the months either side.
0
pass every filter
0
one rule short
31
closed, all of them
Guru asta — 14 July to 13 August · 13 days of this month
The whole of August is inside Chaturmas · 31 days of this month
No day qualifies
August 2026 is shut end to end, so no day was ever in contention. No day comes within a single rule of passing either. April 2026 and December 2026 are the widest of 2026 for this rite, level at 2 days each.
What removed the rest of the month
Marriage is the one occasion every closure applies to, and in most months they take more days than the five limbs do.
- Guru asta took 13 days of August
- Chaturmas took 31 days of August — the entire month
The nakshatra filter is the other narrow one. The ten vivah nakshatras are ten of the twenty-seven, and they fall on 12 days of August 2026 — 3 Uttara Bhadrapada, 4 Revati, 8 Rohini, 9 Mrigashira, 15 Uttara Phalguni, 16 Hasta, 18 Swati, 19 Swati, 21 Anuradha, 25 Uttara Ashadha, 30 Uttara Bhadrapada, 31 Revati — of which none survives everything else.
Which rule did the excluding
31 days of August were shut by a closure and never examined. Of the 0 that were, none passed everything; 0 missed by a single rule and 0 by two or more, though one of this rite's 10 accepted nakshatras ran on 12 days of it.
| Rule | What it asks for | Days it excluded | On its own |
|---|
Read the last column as a counterfactual. Nothing in August 2026 fails on exactly one rule with everything else in place, so there is no single concession that would widen the shortlist.
Nakshatra supply. 10 of the 27 are accepted for this rite, and they fell on 12 days of August 2026, with Swati and Uttara Bhadrapada and Revati coming round twice, while Magha did not fall at sunrise at all — of 10 accepted stars the 27-fold division and the calendar month do not divide evenly, so a favoured one can simply be skipped.
Weekday supply. August 2026 holds 17 days of the right weekday (Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday), 0 of them outside a closure, and not one of those survive the rest of the filter — against 12 days supplied by the 10 nakshatras. Unlike the sky's four limbs, this is the one the calendar fixes.
Every closure applies, and this is where they are strictest. Inside a qualifying day the pheras still need a lagna window calculated from both charts.
Every day of August 2026, and what ruled it out
All 31 days with the verdict and the reason, each linked to its own panchang page: 31 shut before being read, 0 examined against 10 nakshatras, 0 through.
| Day | Verdict |
|---|---|
| 1 Sat | Guru asta; Chaturmas; Saturday is not among the preferred weekdays; Shatabhisha is not in this occasion's set |
| 2 Sun | Guru asta; Chaturmas; Krishna Chaturthi is not among the favoured tithis; Sunday is not among the preferred weekdays; Purva Bhadrapada is not in this occasion's set; Atiganda is one of the nine ashubha yogas |
| 3 Mon | Guru asta; Chaturmas |
| 4 Tue | Guru asta; Chaturmas; Krishna Shashthi is not among the favoured tithis; Tuesday is not among the preferred weekdays |
| 5 Wed | Guru asta; Chaturmas; Ashwini is not in this occasion's set; Shula is one of the nine ashubha yogas; Vishti (Bhadra) at sunrise |
| 6 Thu | Guru asta; Chaturmas; Krishna Ashtami is not among the favoured tithis; Bharani is not in this occasion's set; Ganda is one of the nine ashubha yogas |
| 7 Fri | Guru asta; Chaturmas; Krishna Navami is not among the favoured tithis; Krittika is not in this occasion's set |
| 8 Sat | Guru asta; Chaturmas; Saturday is not among the preferred weekdays; Vishti (Bhadra) at sunrise |
| 9 Sun | Guru asta; Chaturmas; Sunday is not among the preferred weekdays |
| 10 Mon | Guru asta; Chaturmas; Krishna Dwadashi is not among the favoured tithis; Ardra is not in this occasion's set; Vajra is one of the nine ashubha yogas |
| 11 Tue | Guru asta; Chaturmas; Krishna Chaturdashi is not among the favoured tithis; Tuesday is not among the preferred weekdays; Punarvasu is not in this occasion's set; Vishti (Bhadra) at sunrise |
| 12 Wed | Guru asta; Chaturmas; Amavasya is not among the favoured tithis; Pushya is not in this occasion's set; Vyatipata is one of the nine ashubha yogas |
| 13 Thu | Guru asta; Chaturmas; Shukla Pratipada is not among the favoured tithis; Ashlesha is not in this occasion's set |
| 14 Fri | Chaturmas; Purva Phalguni is not in this occasion's set; Parigha is one of the nine ashubha yogas |
| 15 Sat | Chaturmas; Saturday is not among the preferred weekdays |
| 16 Sun | Chaturmas; Shukla Chaturthi is not among the favoured tithis; Sunday is not among the preferred weekdays; Vishti (Bhadra) at sunrise |
| 17 Mon | Chaturmas; Chitra is not in this occasion's set |
| 18 Tue | Chaturmas; Shukla Shashthi is not among the favoured tithis; Tuesday is not among the preferred weekdays |
| 19 Wed | Chaturmas |
| 20 Thu | Chaturmas; Shukla Ashtami is not among the favoured tithis; Vishakha is not in this occasion's set; Vishti (Bhadra) at sunrise |
| 21 Fri | Chaturmas; Shukla Navami is not among the favoured tithis; Vaidhriti is one of the nine ashubha yogas |
| 22 Sat | Chaturmas; Saturday is not among the preferred weekdays; Jyeshtha is not in this occasion's set; Vishkambha is one of the nine ashubha yogas |
| 23 Sun | Chaturmas; Sunday is not among the preferred weekdays; Moola is not in this occasion's set; Vishkambha is one of the nine ashubha yogas |
| 24 Mon | Chaturmas; Shukla Dwadashi is not among the favoured tithis; Purva Ashadha is not in this occasion's set |
| 25 Tue | Chaturmas; Shukla Dwadashi is not among the favoured tithis; Tuesday is not among the preferred weekdays |
| 26 Wed | Chaturmas; Shravana is not in this occasion's set |
| 27 Thu | Chaturmas; Shukla Chaturdashi is not among the favoured tithis; Dhanishta is not in this occasion's set |
| 28 Fri | Chaturmas; Shatabhisha is not in this occasion's set; Atiganda is one of the nine ashubha yogas |
| 29 Sat | Chaturmas; Krishna Pratipada is not among the favoured tithis; Saturday is not among the preferred weekdays; Purva Bhadrapada is not in this occasion's set |
| 30 Sun | Chaturmas; Sunday is not among the preferred weekdays; Shula is one of the nine ashubha yogas |
| 31 Mon | Chaturmas; Ganda is one of the nine ashubha yogas; Vishti (Bhadra) at sunrise |
August 2026 against the rest of 2026
Across the whole of 2026 this occasion has 7 qualifying days, and August 2026's 0 puts it 6th of the twelve, level with 6 other months. April 2026 and December 2026 are the widest, level at 2 days each, and 7 months of the year have none at all.
The other six occasions in August 2026
Same 31 days, seven different filters: in August they return between 0 and 4 qualifying days, median 3. This rite’s 0 is on the narrow side of that, and the reason is the 10-nakshatra set and the 5 closures it carries.
Questions about August 2026
How many days in August 2026 are good for marriage?
None. August 2026 lies entirely inside Chaturmas, which closes the month for this occasion whatever the day's panchang says.
Is any part of August 2026 closed for auspicious beginnings?
Guru asta, 14 July to 13 August. Jupiter is combust — within 11° of the Sun in longitude, closest on 29 July. Guru sanctifies the vivah, so a pandit declines these days however good the tithi and nakshatra are. Chaturmas covers the whole of August. Devshayani Ekadashi to Dev Uthani Ekadashi, the four months Vishnu is held to be asleep. Marriages stop across almost every community. Pitru Paksha sits inside it and is avoided in its own right.
Why do other sites list more marriage dates in August 2026?
The closures alone take 31 of this month's 31 days — Guru asta, Chaturmas apply here — and a list assembled without them has 31 more days to draw on than this one does. Of the 0 that were examined, each was checked against all five limbs.
What is Guru or Shukra asta, and why does it matter for a wedding?
A planet is asta — combust — when it comes within a few degrees of the Sun in longitude and is lost in its glare. Jupiter sanctifies the vivah and Venus governs conjugal life, so a pandit declines the days either one is combust however good the tithi and nakshatra are. Shukra asta runs 26 November to 17 February; Guru asta runs 14 July to 13 August; Shukra asta runs 18 October to 30 October in 2026. It is the closure published lists most often miss, and in 2026 it removes more days than Kharmas does.
Next
- Marriage across all twelve months
- The same filter, run interactively
- Why each closed period is closed
- The August panchang in full
Computed at sunrise for New Delhi from the JPL DE421 ephemeris; all five limbs change through the day, so a day listed here can turn at noon.
Ask a pandit for the August muhurat