Muhurat Finder: Shubh Muhurat for Your City and Dates

What the finder checks

A muhurat is a stretch of time that passes the rules for one act. For every day of your range the finder computes the panchang for the city you choose — tithi, nakshatra, yoga, karana and weekday at its own sunrise, and every change through the day — with the Swiss Ephemeris and the Lahiri ayanamsa. It then keeps only the hours that pass the rules for your event. A day runs from sunrise to the next sunrise, as in the panchang, so a window after midnight belongs to the day before.

Some rules hold for every event. Following Muhurta Chintamani, the finder avoids the rikta tithis (Chaturthi, Navami and Chaturdashi) and Amavasya, Bhadra (Vishti karana), the yogas Vyatipata and Vaidhriti, the opening part of the other inauspicious yogas — the whole of them for a wedding — and the junction quarters of the nakshatras (gandanta). Rahu Kalam and Yamaganda are cut out of every day, following South Indian practice (Kalaprakasika). Gulika is cut out too, as many calendars do, although Kalaprakasika itself does not count it as inauspicious. What is left must last at least one ghati, 24 minutes.

Each event adds its own rules. A wedding needs one of its eleven nakshatras and the Sun in Mesha, Vrishabha, Mithuna, Vrishchika, Makara or Kumbha, and is not held in Chaturmas, in an adhika month or while Venus or Jupiter is combust (Vivaha prakarana). Entering a new home needs one of eight fixed or soft nakshatras and the lunar month Magha, Phalguna, Vaishakha or Jyeshtha — Kartika and Margashirsha are middling — and avoids an adhika month and combustion (Griha-pravesha prakarana); Sundays and Tuesdays are left out (Narada Samhita, for a new house; published calendars leave them out too). A journey follows the nakshatras, tithis and weekdays of the Yatra prakarana. A vehicle, land or a house, a business, studies and any other beginning are judged in daylight by the classes of the nakshatras; by custom a vehicle is not bought on a Tuesday or a Saturday. A business is started only in the soft, fixed and swift nakshatras and never on a Tuesday (Muhurta Chintamani, Nakshatra prakarana — its rule for trade in the market; B.V. Raman also rejects Tuesday); the same rule bars a Kumbha lagna, which the finder does not compute. Studies begin only on a Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday (Muhurta Chintamani, Samskara prakarana; published calendars agree) and wait out an adhika month and combustion. B.V. Raman (Muhurtha) rejects Sunday — a difference of school the finder does not follow. Muhurta Chintamani's own tithis for beginning studies — Dwitiya, Tritiya, Panchami, Shashthi, Dashami and Ekadashi, to which published calendars add Dwadashi — are not applied, so a listed day can fall on another tithi.

A day shows its best windows, up to three, in time order. Very good, Good and Usable are a rough order from classical factors: the nakshatra, the weekday and the bright half of the month for every event, the best lunar months for a new home, and Pushya on a Thursday or a Sunday (Guru- or Ravi-Pushya) for a purchase, a business, studies or any other beginning. The order is not a probability or a promise. Every listed day passes the rules.

Two views: the calendar view and the strict view

Published calendars do not all apply the same rules, so two honest lists for one city can differ. Instead of choosing for you, the finder shows two views of every day and names the rule behind each difference.

The calendar view applies the rules as many popular printed calendars do. We test it against a widely used almanac's published lists: weddings and griha pravesh for all of 2026 at Gurgaon and November 2026 to February 2027 at Mumbai, Kolkata and Gurgaon; vehicle purchase for September to December 2026 at Gurgaon; and all four lists (weddings, griha pravesh, vehicle and property purchase) for all of 2027 at New Delhi. Every date on those lists is either offered here too or closed by a rule the finder names; the almanac's property list follows another school, so there the two lists agree on only part of their days. The methodology page gives the details.

The strict view keeps everything the calendar view closes and adds the book rules many calendars leave out. For a wedding and a new home: Simhastha Guru (Jupiter in Leo, read by region), Makara Guru where the region keeps it, and the seven days before Venus or Jupiter sets and after it rises again (vriddha and balya, the middle view of Dharma Sindhu). For every event: 16 ghatis on either side of each sankranti (B.V. Raman, Muhurtha). No wedding on a Tuesday (Vasishtha, quoted in Muhurta Chintamani). For a new home it also waits for Dev Uthani Ekadashi (Chaturmas, a custom) and through Kharmas — in the Dhanu month a book rule as well, because that month lies in Dakshinayana. Studies wait through Kharmas too, by custom.

The strict view never adds an hour: it only shortens or closes the calendar view's windows. With "Both" chosen, the list shows the calendar view's days with a line under each — the same windows in the strict view, shorter ones, or none — and why.

Regions: why the city matters twice

The city sets the clock: every window is counted from its own sunrise and shown in its own time zone, whatever your phone's clock says. Sunrise in Kolkata comes about an hour before sunrise in Ahmedabad, so the same day's windows sit about an hour apart in the two cities.

Some rules also belong to a region. In the strict view, Simhastha Guru closes weddings and a new home everywhere while Jupiter is in Magha or the first quarter of Purva Phalguni; in the rest of Leo it closes them only between the Ganga and the Godavari and in Gujarat, Bengal and Odisha; and it does not apply while the Sun is in Mesha. Makara Guru is kept in the Konkan, Magadha, Bengal and Sindh. Holashtak, the eight days before Holika, is kept on the Beas, the Ravi and the Sutlej and at Pushkar (Muhurta Chintamani, quoting Shighrabodha).

The finder guesses the region from the city. A family that keeps another region's practice — a Bengali family in Pune, say — can choose its region, and the strict view follows that choice. Where the region cannot be told, where the place is outside India, and for the Punjab, which the texts do not settle for the rest of Leo, the strict view reads these rules at their strictest and says so on the day.

What the finder cannot check

The free finder gives the same days to everyone in a city: it does not know your birth star. A family priest also checks the person's — or the couple's — Tara Bala and Chandra Bala (the day's nakshatra counted from the birth nakshatra, the Moon's sign from the birth Moon), fixes the lagna for the exact minute of the ceremony inside these windows, and follows the family's own customs.

To check a date against your own chart, ask the AI astrologer: the chat reads the same engine with your birth star and Moon sign. For a medical procedure the date is the doctor's; the finder offers no medical muhurat.

A muhurat is a traditional choice of time. We show how each day was judged and why, but we do not promise any outcome from it.

How to read the results

The summary counts the days with at least one window in each view. In the month calendar, three dots mean Very good, two Good and one Usable; a dash means no muhurat that day. A filled corner marks a day the strict view closes, an outlined corner a day it shortens. Days outside your dates are greyed out.

Tap a day for its hours: a bar from sunrise to the next sunrise with the windows of each view and the Rahu Kalam, Yamaganda and Gulika cut out of it, the panchang at sunrise, the rules that close the other hours with their sources, and buttons to add a window to your calendar or Google Calendar. The list below the calendar shows the same days as cards, in date order or best first.

The page's address keeps your search — the event, the city, the dates, the view and the open day — so you can bookmark it or send it to family. It holds the city's coordinates and name, never a person's name. When the link is opened, the city's name is taken from its coordinates.