vakri Mangal 2024
Mars Retrograde 2024: Dates, Signs and Stations
One window opening in 2024 · 79 days between stations · Cancer and Gemini
Mars turns retrograde once in 2024, on 7 December 2024, and turns direct again on 24 February 2025. Counting only the calendar days of 2024, Mars is retrograde on 25 of them.
7 December to 24 February 2025, in Cancer and Gemini
Mars stations retrograde on 7 December 2024 at 11°58′ Cancer, in Pushya, and stations direct on 24 February 2025 at 22°49′ Gemini, in Punarvasu. Between the two stations it travels back 19.2° of the zodiac over 79 days.
11°58′ Cancer, the 7 December station, is in Pushya pada 3, the Libra navamsa. 22°49′ Gemini, the 24 February station, is in Punarvasu pada 1, the Aries navamsa. The arc between them spans 7 padas, from Punarvasu pada 1 up to Pushya pada 3, and Mars crosses every degree of it three times: forward before 7 December, backward until 24 February, and forward again afterwards. Mars is debilitated in Cancer and in an enemy's sign in Gemini.
That arc crosses a sign boundary, so the 7 December retrograde of 2024 begins in Cancer and ends in Gemini. The day of that backward re-entry is outside the 2026–2028 ingress table, so this page does not give one.
The site’s ingress, nakshatra and conjunction tables run from 2026 to 2028, so for the 2024 window they have nothing to add, and this page adds nothing in their place.
How 2024 Compares With Mars’s Other Windows
Across the 4 Mars retrogrades the site computes from 2024 to 2031, a window lasts 76 to 81 days between stations and retraces 17.2° to 19.5°. The 2024 window, at 79 days and 19.2°, 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 Mars in 2024 the day is what two careful sources will agree on.
More on Mars’s Retrogrades
Every Mars window from 2024 to 2031 is tabulated on the Mars retrograde page. To see whether Mars 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: मंगल वक्री 2024.