vakri Shani 2031
Saturn Retrograde 2031: Dates, Signs and Stations
One window opening in 2031 · 134 days between stations · Taurus
Saturn turns retrograde once in 2031, on 5 October 2031, and turns direct again on 16 February 2032. Counting only the calendar days of 2031, Saturn is retrograde on 121 of them, including the tail of the window that opened on 21 September 2030 and runs into 2031 until 2 February 2031.
5 October to 16 February 2032, in Taurus
Saturn stations retrograde on 5 October 2031 at 28°46′ Taurus, in Mrigashira, and stations direct on 16 February 2032 at 21°48′ Taurus, in Rohini. Between the two stations it travels back 7.0° of the zodiac over 134 days.
28°46′ Taurus, the 5 October station, is in Mrigashira pada 2, the Virgo navamsa. 21°48′ Taurus, the 16 February station, is in Rohini pada 4, the Cancer navamsa. The arc between them spans 3 padas, from Rohini pada 4 up to Mrigashira pada 2, and Saturn crosses every degree of it three times: forward before 5 October, backward until 16 February, and forward again afterwards. Saturn is in a friend's sign in Taurus.
The whole 7.0° lies inside Taurus, so for the 5 October retrograde of 2031 there is no sign change to date: Saturn in Taurus covers all 134 days.
The site’s ingress, nakshatra and conjunction tables run from 2026 to 2028, so for the 2031 window they have nothing to add, and this page adds nothing in their place.
It begins 379 days after the previous Saturn retrograde began on 21 September 2030, and 245 days after that one ended.
How 2031 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 2031 window, at 134 days and 7.0°, is the shortest of them by length and the widest by arc.
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 2031 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 2030. 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 2031.