vakri Shani 2028
Saturn Retrograde 2028: Dates, Signs and Stations
One window opening in 2028 · 136 days between stations · Aries
Saturn turns retrograde once in 2028, on 23 August 2028, and turns direct again on 5 January 2029. Counting only the calendar days of 2028, Saturn is retrograde on 131 of them.
23 August to 5 January 2029, in Aries
Saturn stations retrograde on 23 August 2028 at 17°08′ Aries, in Bharani, and stations direct on 5 January 2029 at 10°14′ Aries, in Ashwini. Between the two stations it travels back 6.9° of the zodiac over 136 days.
17°08′ Aries, the 23 August station, is in Bharani pada 2, the Virgo navamsa. 10°14′ Aries, the 5 January station, is in Ashwini, close enough to a pada edge that the pada depends on the ayanamsa. The arc between them spans 3 padas, from Ashwini pada 4 up to Bharani pada 2, and Saturn crosses every degree of it three times: forward before 23 August, backward until 5 January, and forward again afterwards. Saturn is debilitated in Aries.
The whole 6.9° lies inside Aries, so for the 23 August retrograde of 2028 there is no sign change to date: Saturn in Aries covers all 136 days.
The site’s ingress, nakshatra and conjunction tables run from 2026 to 2028, so for the 2028 window they have nothing to add, and this page adds nothing in their place.
It begins 380 days after the previous Saturn retrograde began on 9 August 2027, and 243 days after that one ended.
How 2028 Compares With Saturn’s Other Windows
Across the 8 Saturn retrogrades the site computes from 2024 to 2031, a window lasts 134 to 139 days between stations and retraces 6.8° to 7.0°. The 2028 window, at 136 days and 6.9°, 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 Saturn in 2028 the day is what two careful sources will agree on.
More on Saturn’s Retrogrades
Every Saturn window from 2024 to 2031 is tabulated on the Saturn retrograde page, including 2027 and 2029. All five planets in 2028 are on the 2028 retrograde calendar. To see whether Saturn 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: शनि वक्री 2028.