Guru Pushya Yoga 2026–27: Every Date and What It Means for Buying Gold

Guru Pushya Yoga is the day the Moon is in the nakshatra Pushya on a Thursday (Guru-var); on a Sunday it is called Ravi Pushya. In tradition it is the most popular muhurat for buying gold. The books name other stars for buying, and Pushya among the stars for wearing gold; this guide sets out both, the custom and the rules.

This guide lists every Guru Pushya and Ravi Pushya from November 2026 to December 2027 with the hours at New Delhi, says which of them pass the rules for buying gold, and explains what the books say and what is custom.

The almanac this site checks its calendar views against publishes no year list for buying gold, so these dates come straight from the book's rules and the panchang. A widely read website's 2027 gold list has 28 days; 26 of them are in the calendar view of the gold year page, and the other 2 are closed by the book's rules (a rikta tithi on both). The dates are the panchang's own: the Pushya hours come from the Moon's nakshatra on the Thursday or Sunday, and Dhanteras and Akshaya Tritiya from the festival calendar — the same panchang whose festival dates agree day for day with a widely used almanac's from October 2026 to December 2027.

Guru Pushya and Ravi Pushya Dates, November 2026 to December 2027

A Hindu weekday runs from sunrise to the next sunrise, so a Pushya that begins after midnight but before Friday's sunrise still falls on the Thursday. The hours below are when the Moon is in Pushya within that Thursday or Sunday, at New Delhi in IST; the last column says what the gold list does with the day.

So the year has no Guru Pushya in November or December 2026 and five in 2027, of which only 18 March 2027 gives daylight hours in Pushya that pass the rules for buying gold. The Ravi Pushya days of 1 November 2026, 29 November 2026, 29 August 2027 and 26 September 2027 do too. Times are computed with the Swiss Ephemeris and the Lahiri ayanamsa; other cities differ by minutes at sunrise and sunset, but the Moon's entry into Pushya is the same instant everywhere.

"A rikta tithi" is Chaturthi, Navami or Chaturdashi, which the book's verse on wearing gold rules out; Bhadra is the Vishti karana, avoided for any beginning; gurvaditya is the Sun and Jupiter in one sign (below). The gold list keeps daylight only, so a Pushya after sunset has no window on it.

What the Books Say About Buying Gold

Muhurta Chintamani's Nakshatra prakarana has two rules that matter, and neither mentions Guru Pushya:

• Buying (kraya) is best in Revati, Shatabhisha, Ashwini, Swati, Shravana and Chitra, and never in the selling stars — the three Purvas, Vishakha, Krittika, Ashlesha and Bharani (the Dipika commentary, quoted there).
• Putting on new gold and ornaments is given to Revati, the fixed stars, Ashwini, the five stars from Hasta, Dhanishtha, Pushya and Punarvasu; not on a rikta tithi, and not on a Saturday, Monday or Tuesday (with Shripati).

So Pushya appears in the book for wearing gold, not for buying it. The same verse adds that a married woman does not put on new ornaments in the fixed stars, Punarvasu or Pushya; for jewellery she will wear, the buying stars are the safer choice. The Shubhashubha prakarana also keeps new gems and ornaments away from gurvaditya, the Sun and Jupiter in one sign — in 2027 from 17 August (14:13 IST) to 17 September (14:10 IST), while both are in Simha.

The two lists on the Gold Buying Muhurat 2027 page follow these rules. The calendar view takes the buying stars as best and the wearing stars (other than the selling ones) as good, on any weekday, with no rikta tithi or Amavasya and no eclipse day — 176 days in 2027. The strict view also applies the wearing verse's weekdays and gurvaditya, and B.V. Raman's sixteen ghatis around each sankranti — 94 days.

Gold Buying Days by Month, 2027

The Gold Buying Muhurat 2026 page lists the 26 days of November and December 2026. Neither view checks the lagna.

How the Lists Rank a Gold Day

Each date on the year pages carries a strength word — "Very good", "Good" or "Usable". It is a rough order, not a probability: the star's grade first (a buying star above a wearing star), then a favoured weekday — Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday — and the bright half of the month. Pushya on a Thursday or a Sunday is ranked a step higher as a custom, which is why 18 March 2027 is "Very good" on the list although Pushya is a wearing star. The windows themselves leave out Rahu Kalam, Yamaganda and Gulika, Bhadra and the inauspicious yogas, as every list on this site does, and a window keeps at least one ghati (24 minutes) of clean time.

Dhanteras, Akshaya Tritiya and Diwali

All three are customs for buying gold; no rule for them was found in the books. What the lists say about each:

• Dhanteras, 6 November 2026 (festival card): on the list in both views, in Hasta — 07:10–07:58, 09:21–10:42 and 12:05–14:48 IST at New Delhi.
• Dhanteras, 27 October 2027: on the list in both views, in Uttara Phalguni — 06:30–07:53 IST.
• Akshaya Tritiya, 9 May 2027 (festival card): not on the list. The day's star, Mrigashira, is neither a buying star nor one of the stars for wearing gold, and the tithi turns rikta later in the day.
• Diwali (8 November 2026, 29 October 2027): Lakshmi Puja falls on Amavasya, which the gold list leaves out.

If your family buys on these days by custom, the custom is reason enough. The lists only tell you whether the day also passes the books' rules, and when.

Seasons That Do Not Apply

Many people ask whether gold can be bought in Kharmas, in Simhastha Guru, while Venus or Jupiter is combust, or in Pitru Paksha. The books' lists of acts kept away from those periods name weddings, building and the samskaras, not a purchase, so the gold lists keep their days. Pitru Paksha (16–29 September 2027) and Kharmas are times when many families avoid new purchases — a custom, and a good reason to skip those dates if your family keeps it. The Kharmas 2026–27 guide gives its dates.

Planning a Gold Purchase

• For the book's best days, choose a buying star: the "Very good" days of the year page. In 2027 the calendar view ranks 22 of them, from 10 January (Shravana) to 31 December (Shravana).
• For Guru Pushya, 18 March 2027 is the one Thursday with Pushya in daylight hours that pass every rule; take the windows in the table.
• For jewellery a married woman will wear, prefer a buying star to Pushya, as the verse asks.
• Your own city: the free muhurat finder lists the gold days in both views for up to three months; today's choghadiya gives the day's good and bad hours.
• If two lists disagree, Why muhurat dates differ explains why.