💍Marriage (Vivah)
Marriage Muhurat, March 2026
The filter for a marriage returns nothing in March 2026, with 19 of the 31 closed outright by Holashtak and Meena Kharmas. Every rejection below carries the limb it failed on, so the working can be checked rather than taken on trust.
0
pass every filter
3
one rule short
19
in a closed period
Holashtak — 23 February to 2 March (observed regionally) · 2 days of this month
Meena Kharmas — 15 March to 14 April · 17 days of this month
No day qualifies
Every one of the 31 days fails on at least one limb or falls in a closed period, and nakshatra alone accounts for 6 of them. 3 days came within a single rule and are listed below — that is the set worth putting to a pandit. 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.
- Holashtak took 2 days of March
- Meena Kharmas took 17 days of March
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 March 2026 — 3 Magha, 5 Uttara Phalguni, 6 Hasta, 8 Swati, 10 Anuradha, 14 Uttara Ashadha, 19 Uttara Bhadrapada, 20 Revati, 24 Rohini, 25 Mrigashira, 30 Magha — of which none survives everything else.
One rule short — 3 days
They divide by the rule they missed: 2 on vara, 1 on yoga.
- 3 TuePurnima, Magha — short on vara: Tuesday is not among the preferred weekdays
- 5 ThuKrishna Dwitiya, Uttara Phalguni — short on yoga: Shula is one of the nine ashubha yogas
- 8 SunKrishna Panchami, Swati — short on vara: Sunday is not among the preferred weekdays
Which rule did the excluding
19 days of March were shut by a closure and never examined. Of the 12 that were, none passed everything; 3 missed by a single rule and 9 by two or more, though one of this rite's 10 accepted nakshatras ran on 11 days of it. Nakshatra is the binding constraint here, ruling out 6 of the 12.
| Rule | What it asks for | Days it excluded | On its own |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tithi | 7 of the fifteen — Dwitiya, Tritiya, Panchami, Saptami, Dashami, Ekadashi, Trayodashi and Purnima, Ashtami excluded | 5 | — |
| Vara | Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday | 5 | 2 |
| Nakshatra | 10 of the 27 | 6 | — |
| Yoga | none of the nine ashubha yogas | 5 | 1 |
| Karana | not Vishti (Bhadra) at sunrise | 3 | — |
Read the last column as a counterfactual. 2 days of March fail on vara and nothing else — 3, 8 — so a family willing to set aside that one rule has those days available. No other single relaxation buys as much.
Nakshatra supply. 10 of the 27 are accepted for this rite, and they fell on 11 days of March 2026, with Magha coming round twice.
Weekday supply. March 2026 holds 17 days of the right weekday (Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday), 7 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 March 2026, and what ruled it out
All 31 days with the verdict and the reason, each linked to its own panchang page: 19 shut before being read, 12 examined against 10 nakshatras, 0 through.
| Day | Verdict |
|---|---|
| 1 Sun | Holashtak; Sunday is not among the preferred weekdays; Pushya is not in this occasion's set |
| 2 Mon | Holashtak; Shukla Chaturdashi is not among the favoured tithis; Ashlesha is not in this occasion's set; Atiganda is one of the nine ashubha yogas |
| 3 Tue | Tuesday is not among the preferred weekdays |
| 4 Wed | Krishna Pratipada is not among the favoured tithis; Purva Phalguni is not in this occasion's set |
| 5 Thu | Shula is one of the nine ashubha yogas |
| 6 Fri | Ganda is one of the nine ashubha yogas; Vishti (Bhadra) at sunrise |
| 7 Sat | Krishna Chaturthi is not among the favoured tithis; Saturday is not among the preferred weekdays; Chitra is not in this occasion's set |
| 8 Sun | Sunday is not among the preferred weekdays |
| 9 Mon | Krishna Shashthi is not among the favoured tithis; Vishakha is not in this occasion's set; Vyaghata is one of the nine ashubha yogas |
| 10 Tue | Tuesday is not among the preferred weekdays; Vishti (Bhadra) at sunrise |
| 11 Wed | Krishna Ashtami is not among the favoured tithis; Jyeshtha is not in this occasion's set; Vajra is one of the nine ashubha yogas |
| 12 Thu | Krishna Navami is not among the favoured tithis; Moola is not in this occasion's set |
| 13 Fri | Purva Ashadha is not in this occasion's set; Vyatipata is one of the nine ashubha yogas |
| 14 Sat | Saturday is not among the preferred weekdays; Vishti (Bhadra) at sunrise |
| 15 Sun | Meena Kharmas; Sunday is not among the preferred weekdays; Shravana is not in this occasion's set; Parigha is one of the nine ashubha yogas |
| 16 Mon | Meena Kharmas; Krishna Dwadashi is not among the favoured tithis; Dhanishta is not in this occasion's set |
| 17 Tue | Meena Kharmas; Tuesday is not among the preferred weekdays; Shatabhisha is not in this occasion's set |
| 18 Wed | Meena Kharmas; Krishna Chaturdashi is not among the favoured tithis; Purva Bhadrapada is not in this occasion's set |
| 19 Thu | Meena Kharmas; Amavasya is not among the favoured tithis |
| 20 Fri | Meena Kharmas |
| 21 Sat | Meena Kharmas; Saturday is not among the preferred weekdays; Ashwini is not in this occasion's set |
| 22 Sun | Meena Kharmas; Shukla Chaturthi is not among the favoured tithis; Sunday is not among the preferred weekdays; Bharani is not in this occasion's set; Vaidhriti is one of the nine ashubha yogas |
| 23 Mon | Meena Kharmas; Krittika is not in this occasion's set; Vishkambha is one of the nine ashubha yogas |
| 24 Tue | Meena Kharmas; Shukla Shashthi is not among the favoured tithis; Tuesday is not among the preferred weekdays |
| 25 Wed | Meena Kharmas |
| 26 Thu | Meena Kharmas; Shukla Ashtami is not among the favoured tithis; Ardra is not in this occasion's set |
| 27 Fri | Meena Kharmas; Shukla Navami is not among the favoured tithis; Punarvasu is not in this occasion's set; Atiganda is one of the nine ashubha yogas |
| 28 Sat | Meena Kharmas; Saturday is not among the preferred weekdays; Pushya is not in this occasion's set |
| 29 Sun | Meena Kharmas; Sunday is not among the preferred weekdays; Ashlesha is not in this occasion's set; Vishti (Bhadra) at sunrise |
| 30 Mon | Meena Kharmas; Shukla Dwadashi is not among the favoured tithis; Shula is one of the nine ashubha yogas |
| 31 Tue | Meena Kharmas; Tuesday is not among the preferred weekdays; Purva Phalguni is not in this occasion's set; Ganda is one of the nine ashubha yogas |
March 2026 against the rest of 2026
March 2026 is 6th of the twelve, level with 6 other months of 2026 for this rite. April 2026 and December 2026 carry the most, 2 each, and 7 months carry none, out of 7 for the year.
The other six occasions in March 2026
Same 31 days, seven different filters: in March they return between 0 and 5 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 March 2026
How many days in March 2026 are good for marriage?
None of the 31 days passes every filter. 3 days fails on a single limb and sits in no closed period, which is the set worth discussing with a pandit — they are listed above with the limb each one missed. April 2026 and December 2026 are the widest of 2026 for this occasion, level at 2 days each.
Is any part of March 2026 closed for auspicious beginnings?
Holashtak, 23 February to 2 March. The eight days ending at Holika Dahan on 2 March. Observed in Punjab, Himachal, Haryana and much of North India; not generally in the south or in Bengal. Meena Kharmas, 15 March to 14 April. The Sun is in Pisces. Auspicious beginnings are deferred through the whole transit.
Why do other sites list more marriage dates in March 2026?
The closures alone take 19 of this month's 31 days — Holashtak, Meena Kharmas apply here — and a list assembled without them has 19 more days to draw on than this one does. Of the 12 that were examined, nakshatra removed 6.
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 March 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 March muhurat