vakri grah
Retrograde Planets, 2024 to 2031
Five of the nine grahas go retrograde: Mercury and Venus, which orbit inside the Earth’s orbit, and Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, which orbit outside it. The Sun and Moon never do, and the mean nodes the panchang uses are retrograde all the time, so none of those four has a window to date. Every window below is computed from the site’s own ephemeris and checked against JPL DE421.
| Planet | Windows | Days each | First in the table |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mercury (Budh) | 25 | 20–24 | 2 April 2024 |
| Venus (Shukra) | 5 | 41–43 | 2 March 2025 |
| Mars (Mangal) | 4 | 76–81 | 7 December 2024 |
| Jupiter (Guru) | 7 | 118–123 | 9 October 2024 |
| Saturn (Shani) | 8 | 134–139 | 30 June 2024 |
Year Calendars
All five planets on one page: retrograde planets 2027 and retrograde planets 2028. The 2026 windows are covered in our 2026 retrograde guide, and the retrograde checker answers for any single day. Meetings between two grahas are dated on planetary conjunctions. In Hindi: वक्री ग्रह.