💍Marriage (Vivah)
Marriage Muhurat, January 2026
Nothing in January 2026 is available for a marriage: the month sits entirely inside Shukra asta, 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
The whole of January is inside Shukra asta · 31 days of this month
Dhanu Kharmas — 16 December to 14 January · 14 days of this month
No day qualifies
January 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.
- Shukra asta took 31 days of January — the entire month
- Dhanu Kharmas took 14 days of January
The nakshatra filter is the other narrow one. The ten vivah nakshatras are ten of the twenty-seven, and they fall on 11 days of January 2026 — 1 Rohini, 2 Mrigashira, 7 Magha, 9 Uttara Phalguni, 10 Hasta, 12 Swati, 14 Anuradha, 19 Uttara Ashadha, 24 Uttara Bhadrapada, 25 Revati, 29 Rohini — of which none survives everything else.
Which rule did the excluding
31 days of January 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 11 days of it.
| Rule | What it asks for | Days it excluded | On its own |
|---|
Read the last column as a counterfactual. Nothing in January 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 11 days of January 2026, with Rohini coming round twice.
Weekday supply. January 2026 holds 18 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 11 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 January 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 Thu | Shukra asta; Dhanu Kharmas |
| 2 Fri | Shukra asta; Dhanu Kharmas; Shukla Chaturdashi is not among the favoured tithis |
| 3 Sat | Shukra asta; Dhanu Kharmas; Saturday is not among the preferred weekdays; Ardra is not in this occasion's set |
| 4 Sun | Shukra asta; Dhanu Kharmas; Krishna Pratipada is not among the favoured tithis; Sunday is not among the preferred weekdays; Punarvasu is not in this occasion's set; Vaidhriti is one of the nine ashubha yogas |
| 5 Mon | Shukra asta; Dhanu Kharmas; Pushya is not in this occasion's set; Vishkambha is one of the nine ashubha yogas |
| 6 Tue | Shukra asta; Dhanu Kharmas; Tuesday is not among the preferred weekdays; Ashlesha is not in this occasion's set; Vishti (Bhadra) at sunrise |
| 7 Wed | Shukra asta; Dhanu Kharmas |
| 8 Thu | Shukra asta; Dhanu Kharmas; Krishna Shashthi is not among the favoured tithis; Purva Phalguni is not in this occasion's set |
| 9 Fri | Shukra asta; Dhanu Kharmas; Vishti (Bhadra) at sunrise |
| 10 Sat | Shukra asta; Dhanu Kharmas; Saturday is not among the preferred weekdays; Atiganda is one of the nine ashubha yogas |
| 11 Sun | Shukra asta; Dhanu Kharmas; Krishna Ashtami is not among the favoured tithis; Sunday is not among the preferred weekdays; Chitra is not in this occasion's set |
| 12 Mon | Shukra asta; Dhanu Kharmas; Krishna Navami is not among the favoured tithis |
| 13 Tue | Shukra asta; Dhanu Kharmas; Tuesday is not among the preferred weekdays; Vishakha is not in this occasion's set; Shula is one of the nine ashubha yogas; Vishti (Bhadra) at sunrise |
| 14 Wed | Shukra asta; Dhanu Kharmas; Ganda is one of the nine ashubha yogas |
| 15 Thu | Shukra asta; Krishna Dwadashi is not among the favoured tithis; Jyeshtha is not in this occasion's set |
| 16 Fri | Shukra asta; Moola is not in this occasion's set |
| 17 Sat | Shukra asta; Krishna Chaturdashi is not among the favoured tithis; Saturday is not among the preferred weekdays; Moola is not in this occasion's set; Vyaghata is one of the nine ashubha yogas; Vishti (Bhadra) at sunrise |
| 18 Sun | Shukra asta; Amavasya is not among the favoured tithis; Sunday is not among the preferred weekdays; Purva Ashadha is not in this occasion's set |
| 19 Mon | Shukra asta; Shukla Pratipada is not among the favoured tithis; Vajra is one of the nine ashubha yogas |
| 20 Tue | Shukra asta; Tuesday is not among the preferred weekdays; Shravana is not in this occasion's set |
| 21 Wed | Shukra asta; Dhanishta is not in this occasion's set; Vyatipata is one of the nine ashubha yogas |
| 22 Thu | Shukra asta; Shukla Chaturthi is not among the favoured tithis; Shatabhisha is not in this occasion's set |
| 23 Fri | Shukra asta; Purva Bhadrapada is not in this occasion's set; Parigha is one of the nine ashubha yogas |
| 24 Sat | Shukra asta; Shukla Shashthi is not among the favoured tithis; Saturday is not among the preferred weekdays |
| 25 Sun | Shukra asta; Sunday is not among the preferred weekdays |
| 26 Mon | Shukra asta; Shukla Ashtami is not among the favoured tithis; Ashwini is not in this occasion's set; Vishti (Bhadra) at sunrise |
| 27 Tue | Shukra asta; Shukla Navami is not among the favoured tithis; Tuesday is not among the preferred weekdays; Bharani is not in this occasion's set |
| 28 Wed | Shukra asta; Krittika is not in this occasion's set |
| 29 Thu | Shukra asta; Vishti (Bhadra) at sunrise |
| 30 Fri | Shukra asta; Shukla Dwadashi is not among the favoured tithis; Ardra is not in this occasion's set; Vaidhriti is one of the nine ashubha yogas |
| 31 Sat | Shukra asta; Saturday is not among the preferred weekdays; Punarvasu is not in this occasion's set; Vishkambha is one of the nine ashubha yogas |
January 2026 against the rest of 2026
January 2026 contributes 0 of the 7 days 2026 offers for a marriage — 6th of the twelve, level with 6 other months, and exactly the median across the seven occasions this month. 7 months of the twelve offer nothing, 4 of them because the month is shut outright.
The other six occasions in January 2026
Same 31 days, seven different filters: in January they return between 0 and 1 qualifying days, median 0. This rite’s 0 is the median itself, and the reason is the 10-nakshatra set and the 5 closures it carries.
Questions about January 2026
How many days in January 2026 are good for marriage?
None. January 2026 lies entirely inside Shukra asta, which closes the month for this occasion whatever the day's panchang says.
Is any part of January 2026 closed for auspicious beginnings?
Shukra asta covers the whole of January. Venus is combust — within 10° of the Sun in longitude, closest on 6 January. Shukra governs conjugal life, so a pandit declines these days however good the tithi and nakshatra are. Dhanu Kharmas, 16 December to 14 January. The Sun is in Sagittarius. Auspicious beginnings are deferred through the whole transit; it ends at Makar Sankranti.
Why do other sites list more marriage dates in January 2026?
The closures alone take 31 of this month's 31 days — Shukra asta, Dhanu Kharmas 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 January 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 January muhurat