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Jupiter Retrograde 2028: Dates, Signs and Stations
One window opening in 2028 · 122 days between stations · Virgo and Leo
Jupiter turns retrograde once in 2028, on 12 January 2028, and turns direct again on 14 May 2028. Counting only the calendar days of 2028, Jupiter is retrograde on 124 of them.
12 January to 14 May, in Virgo and Leo
Jupiter stations retrograde on 12 January 2028 at 3°19′ Virgo, in Uttara Phalguni, and stations direct on 14 May 2028 at 23°20′ Leo, in Purva Phalguni. Between the two stations it travels back 10.0° of the zodiac over 122 days.
3°19′ Virgo, the 12 January station, is in Uttara Phalguni, close enough to a pada edge that the pada depends on the ayanamsa. 23°20′ Leo, the 14 May station, is in Purva Phalguni, close enough to a pada edge that the pada depends on the ayanamsa. The arc between them spans 4 padas, from Purva Phalguni pada 3 up to Uttara Phalguni pada 2, and Jupiter crosses every degree of it three times: forward before 12 January, backward until 14 May, and forward again afterwards. Jupiter is in an enemy's sign in Virgo and in a friend's sign in Leo.
That arc crosses a sign boundary, so the 12 January retrograde of 2028 begins in Virgo and ends in Leo. The DE421 table puts Jupiter’s backward re-entry into Leo on 28 February 2028, 47 days after it turned. Read Jupiter in Leo for that stretch, not Jupiter in Virgo.
Inside the window Jupiter also backs across a nakshatra boundary: into Purva Phalguni on 25 March 2028.
The 2026–2028 conjunction table records no conjunction involving Jupiter between 12 January and 14 May 2028.
It begins 395 days after the previous Jupiter retrograde began on 13 December 2026, and 274 days after that one ended.
How 2028 Compares With Jupiter’s Other Windows
Across the 7 Jupiter retrogrades the site computes from 2024 to 2031, a window lasts 118 to 123 days between stations and retraces 9.8° to 10.1°. The 2028 window, at 122 days and 10.0°, is inside that range by length.
Every date here is a day, never a time. A planet at a station is barely moving, so the minute it turns is the least stable figure in the table; for Jupiter in 2028 the day is what two careful sources will agree on.
More on Jupiter’s Retrogrades
Every Jupiter window from 2024 to 2031 is tabulated on the Jupiter retrograde page, including 2029. All five planets in 2028 are on the 2028 retrograde calendar. To see whether Jupiter is retrograde on a given day, use the retrograde checker; for how a retrograde graha is read in a birth chart, see retrograde planets explained and astrology for beginners. In Hindi: गुरु वक्री 2028.