Annaprashan Muhurat 2027: Dates and Times

Two views, two lists

Published calendars and the books do not agree on every rule, so this page gives two lists. The calendar view follows the rules published calendars state for an annaprashan (its stars, tithis, weekdays and lagna). The strict view starts from the same windows and also applies the whole day that holds the Sun's entry into a sign. A strict window always lies inside a calendar window, so the strict list is a shorter version of the same list, never a different one.

Neither Simhastha Guru nor the combustion of Venus and Jupiter rules out an annaprashan here: the commentary on Muhurta Chintamani does not weigh combustion for an annaprashan at its prescribed month, and published calendars apply no season to it. So the two views differ only by the strict view's sankranti day. The annaprashan guide sets out the months for a boy and a girl.

Which list to follow is a family matter. If your family keeps the books strictly, use the strict view; if it goes by the printed panchang, use the calendar view. Why muhurat dates differ lists the other reasons two calendars disagree.

The calendar view was compared day by day with a widely used almanac's annaprashan days: the fortnight from 14 January 2027 at New Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata and 16 to 22 November 2026 and 5 chosen days from January to October 2027 at the same cities. That almanac publishes no year list for the samskaras, only a daily tool, so this is a sample of 75 day pages: it published 13 days there, and the calendar view keeps 11 of them and adds none. The other 2, 14 and 28 January 2027 at New Delhi, are closed here by rules applied more strictly: Rahu Kalam, which that almanac flags on its card but keeps, and the one-ghati minimum every window keeps (its card on the 28th lasts 12 minutes). On the days both print, the hours differ only where this site cuts Rahu Kalam, Yamaganda and Gulika, all of Bhadra, the varjyam or a stretch under one ghati, or counts the Moon's house by whole signs.

Closed periods for an annaprashan in 2027

No season rules out an annaprashan in these lists: only the day of a sankranti and the day of an eclipse close it, as the rules below say. The periods families ask about follow with their dates, for a family that keeps them.

Sankrantis: the Sun's entry into each sign

Garga, quoted in Muhurta Chintamani's Samskara prakarana, allows no auspicious act on the day of a sankranti. The calendar view leaves out its punya day as published calendars reckon it — the day of the Sun's entry, or the next day when the Sun enters after sunset; the strict view also leaves out the day that holds the entry. The Sun's entries in 2027 at New Delhi, in IST:

• Makara (Capricorn): the Sun enters at 14 Jan 2027, 21:10
• Kumbha (Aquarius): the Sun enters at 13 Feb 2027, 10:09
• Meena (Pisces): the Sun enters at 15 Mar 2027, 07:00
• Mesha (Aries): the Sun enters at 14 Apr 2027, 15:28
• Vrishabha (Taurus): the Sun enters at 15 May 2027, 12:19
• Mithuna (Gemini): the Sun enters at 15 Jun 2027, 18:55
• Karka (Cancer): the Sun enters at 17 Jul 2027, 05:48
• Simha (Leo): the Sun enters at 17 Aug 2027, 14:13
• Kanya (Virgo): the Sun enters at 17 Sep 2027, 14:10
• Tula (Libra): the Sun enters at 18 Oct 2027, 02:08
• Vrishchika (Scorpio): the Sun enters at 17 Nov 2027, 01:58
• Dhanu (Sagittarius): the Sun enters at 16 Dec 2027, 16:38

Neither list rules out an annaprashan for these periods at New Delhi. At the prescribed month the books do not weigh combustion for an annaprashan, and published calendars apply no season to it; Holashtak is kept by Muhurta Chintamani only on the Beas, the Ravi and the Sutlej and at Pushkar. If your family keeps any of them, skip those dates (IST):

• Simhastha Guru (Jupiter in Magha or the first pada of Purva Phalguni): 31 Oct 2026, 12:02 – 25 Jan 2027, 01:31; 26 Jun 2027, 05:18 – 15 Sep 2027, 09:56 — this list keeps 11 days in it: 11, 20 and 22 January; 2, 5 and 21 July; 6, 11 and 18 August; 3 and 13 September
• Simhastha Guru (Jupiter in the rest of Simha): 15 Sep 2027, 09:56 – 26 Nov 2027, 18:45 — this list keeps 5 days in it: 22 September; 1 and 4 October; 8 and 11 November
• Venus combust (Shukra asta): 6 Jul 2027, 20:42 – 17 Sep 2027, 22:48 — this list keeps 6 days in it: 21 July; 6, 11 and 18 August; 3 and 13 September
• Jupiter combust (Guru asta): 16 Aug 2027, 19:42 – 15 Sep 2027, 03:12 — this list keeps 3 days in it: 18 August; 3 and 13 September
• Kharmas: 16 Dec 2026, 10:25 – 14 Jan 2027, 21:10; 15 Mar 2027, 07:00 – 14 Apr 2027, 15:28; 16 Dec 2027, 16:38 – 15 Jan 2028, 03:24 — this list keeps 6 days in it: 11 January; 22 and 24 March; 8 April; 22 and 29 December
• Chaturmas: 13 Jul 2027, 12:09 – 10 Nov 2027, 09:11 — this list keeps 10 days in it: 21 July; 6, 11 and 18 August; 3, 13 and 22 September; 1 and 4 October; 8 November
• Holashtak: 15 Mar 2027, 10:51 – 22 Mar 2027, 16:13 — this list keeps 1 day in it: 22 March

How these dates are chosen

• The Moon's nakshatra: the fixed, movable, soft and swift stars — Ashwini, Rohini, Mrigashira, Punarvasu, Pushya, Uttara Phalguni, Hasta, Chitra, Swati, Anuradha, Uttara Ashadha, Shravana, Dhanishtha, Shatabhisha, Uttara Bhadrapada and Revati (Muhurta Chintamani, Samskara prakarana; published calendars list the same).
• The tithi: only Dwitiya, Tritiya, Panchami, Saptami, Dashami or Trayodashi of either half, or Purnima — no rikta or nanda tithi, no Ashtami, Dwadashi or Amavasya (Muhurta Chintamani, Samskara prakarana; published calendars list the same).
• The weekday: never Sunday, Tuesday or Saturday (Muhurta Chintamani, Samskara prakarana; published calendars apply it too).
• The month of the child: a boy's 6th, 8th, 10th or 12th month, a girl's 5th, 7th, 9th or 11th (Muhurta Chintamani, Samskara prakarana). At that prescribed month Venus' and Jupiter's combustion are not weighed (the commentary; B.V. Raman), and no season closes the act.
• The hours: daylight only, from sunrise to sunset.
• The lagna, which both views check: only the hours whose rising sign is not Mesha, Vrishchika or Meena, with the 10th house empty and the Moon neither in the 6th or 8th nor in the lagna — a full Moon in the lagna is allowed (Muhurta Chintamani, Samskara prakarana, with its commentary, the Piyushadhara); published calendars apply the same. Each window is such a stretch of a ghati or more; a day with none is closed.
• Never in a kshaya tithi — one current at no sunrise at the place (Muhurta Chintamani, Samskara prakarana, bars it for a karnavedha; a present-day almanac printed no samskara day in one on the days compared).
• Never in the varjyam of the day's nakshatra — its tyajya ghatis: the four of the star's sixty parts that follow the count the book gives for it (after 50 in Ashwini, 30 in Punarvasu, 20 in Pushya and in Chitra, 56 in Mula, and so on), in proportion to the star's own length (Muhurta Chintamani, Vivaha prakarana: avoided in every auspicious act). On the days compared, a present-day almanac's samskara tools hid this span in Punarvasu and Pushya, and in Ashwini and Chitra from one part later; the exception the commentary quotes for a strong Moon is not applied.
• Never on the day of a sankranti or of an eclipse: Garga, quoted in Muhurta Chintamani's Samskara prakarana, allows no auspicious act then, "even at its due time". The calendar view leaves out the sankranti's punya day as published calendars reckon it — the next day when the Sun enters after sunset; the strict view also leaves out the day that holds the entry.
• No Bhadra (Vishti karana): it is avoided whole. The finer rules of its abode and its tail are not applied, so this list is stricter than calendars that apply them.
• The yoga: never Vyatipata or Vaidhriti; of the other inauspicious yogas only the opening ghatis are cut — Vishkambha 5 ghatis, Atiganda 6 ghatis, Shula 7 ghatis, Ganda 6 ghatis, Vyaghata 9 ghatis, Vajra 9 ghatis, Parigha its first half (a ghati is 24 minutes; Muhurta Chintamani, Shubhashubha prakarana).
• Gandanta: the last quarter of Ashlesha, Jyeshtha and Revati and the first quarter of Magha, Mula and Ashwini are cut out (Kalaprakasika; Muhurta Chintamani states it in its Vivaha prakarana).
• Rahu Kalam, Yamaganda and Gulika — the day's eighths by weekday — are cut out of every window (South Indian practice, Kalaprakasika). Kalaprakasika itself does not count Gulika as inauspicious; these lists cut it anyway, as many calendars do, so they are a little stricter there.
• A window keeps at least one ghati (24 minutes) of clean time, and a day shows up to three.
• Strength: "Very good", "Good" and "Usable" are a rough order from the star's grade, a favoured weekday (Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday) and the bright half — not a probability.

What the strict view adds

• The day that holds the Sun's entry into a sign, besides the punya day the calendar view leaves out (Garga, quoted in Muhurta Chintamani's Samskara prakarana).
• Holashtak, Phalguna Shukla Ashtami to Purnima: Muhurta Chintamani (Shubhashubha prakarana, quoting Shighrabodha) keeps it only on the Beas, the Ravi and the Sutlej and at Pushkar; not at New Delhi.

What these lists leave to you

• The child's chart and the exact moment: both views keep only the hours whose rising sign meets the rules above, read without a birth chart. The lagna rules that read the child's own chart — never the 8th sign from the child's birth sign or lagna — and the navamsha are left to the priest, or to the personal muhurat, which reads the child's kundli.
• The child: the age your family keeps, the child's own Tara Bala and Chandra Bala, and the child's birth month are not known to a public list.
• An eclipse is counted wherever on Earth it is seen (the stricter reading); vriddhi tithis, tithi gandanta, the dagdha and visha tithi–weekday pairs, Chandra Bala's vedha, the visha ghatis of the tithi and of the weekday that the commentary quotes from the Daivajna-manohara, and its exception to the varjyam (a strong Moon) are not applied in either view.
• Family and local customs beyond the rules named on this page.

For your city or your own dates

A nakshatra or tithi changes at the same moment everywhere, but each place has its own sunrise, sunset and Rahu Kalam, so another city's windows start and end a few minutes apart, and a day near a change can drop out or come in. The muhurat finder computes both views of the annaprashan list for your city and your own dates, up to three months at a time, and its results offer the personal check below. Start from a month:

A personal muhurat from the kundli

A list for everyone cannot check your child's own stars or the age your family keeps. Muhurta Chintamani's Gochara prakarana adds two personal checks: Tara Bala, the day's nakshatra counted from the birth nakshatra, and Chandra Bala, the Moon's sign counted from the birth Moon sign. A day that is good in general can be weak for one person.

The personal annaprashan muhurat reads your child's saved kundli: each day's Tara Bala and Chandra Bala, the age your family keeps, the lagna times that fit the act inside each window, a Muhurat Patra (PDF) and reminders. 101 coins for the event: before you pay you see how many days are open before the child's chart is checked, and if none passes the child's chart, nothing is charged. Or 50 coins to check one date, charged for its answer, whether the date passes or not.

Or ask the AI astrologer about one date from this list: it reads the day for the place saved in your kundli and names the rule behind its answer.