Namkaran 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 a namkaran (its stars, tithis, weekdays and lagna). The strict view starts from the same windows and also applies a naming ceremony in Uttarayana only, no sign of the Sun, Saturn or Mars rising, Rahu and Ketu counted in the lagna's 8th house and 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 a naming ceremony here: the commentary on Muhurta Chintamani does not weigh combustion for a late naming, and published calendars apply no season to it. The strict view keeps a late naming to Uttarayana (Kashyapa, quoted in the Piyushadhara), leaves out the Sun's, Saturn's and Mars' signs rising and counts Rahu and Ketu in the lagna's 8th house: it closes 19 days the calendar view keeps. The namkaran guide prints the name letters for every nakshatra pada.

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 daily naming tool: the fortnight from 14 January 2027 at New Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata and 16 to 22 November 2026 and 11 chosen days from February to October 2027 at the same cities. That almanac publishes no year list for the samskaras, so this is a sample of 86 day pages. It published 11 days there, on four dates, and the calendar view keeps all 11 and adds no day it does not publish. Where the hours differ, a rule is applied more strictly here: Rahu Kalam, Yamaganda and Gulika, which this site cuts and that almanac flags on its card but keeps; and on 1 October 2027 the first part of Chitra's varjyam, which Muhurta Chintamani starts a little before that almanac does.

Closed periods for a naming ceremony in 2027

These stretches rule out a naming ceremony at New Delhi, computed from the ephemeris to the minute (IST). "Both views" means every list on this page leaves them out; "Strict view" means only the strict list does.

1. Dakshinayana (the Sun in Karka to Dhanu) Strict view

   until 14 Jan 2027, 21:10

   The Sun's southern course: published calendars print a late naming in it, so the calendar view keeps it; the strict view keeps a naming ceremony to Uttarayana (Kashyapa, quoted in Muhurta Chintamani's commentary, the Piyushadhara: a rite whose time has passed is done in Uttarayana).

2. Dakshinayana (the Sun in Karka to Dhanu) Strict view

   from 17 Jul 2027, 05:48 to 15 Jan 2028, 03:24

   The Sun's southern course: published calendars print a late naming in it, so the calendar view keeps it; the strict view keeps a naming ceremony to Uttarayana (Kashyapa, quoted in Muhurta Chintamani's commentary, the Piyushadhara: a rite whose time has passed is done in Uttarayana).

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 a naming ceremony for these periods at New Delhi. Published calendars do not close a namkaran for these periods, and the commentary does not weigh combustion for a late naming; 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 8 days in it: 5, 19 and 21 July; 6 and 11 August; 2, 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 3 days in it: 1 and 4 October; 25 November
• Venus combust (Shukra asta): 6 Jul 2027, 20:42 – 17 Sep 2027, 22:48 — this list keeps 7 days in it: 19 and 21 July; 6 and 11 August; 2, 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: 2, 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 1 day in it: 8 April
• Chaturmas: 13 Jul 2027, 12:09 – 10 Nov 2027, 09:11 — this list keeps 9 days in it: 19 and 21 July; 6 and 11 August; 2, 3 and 13 September; 1 and 4 October
• Holashtak: 15 Mar 2027, 10:51 – 22 Mar 2027, 16:13

How these dates are chosen

• On the 11th or 12th day of life (the birth day counted as the 1st) — or the day your family's sutak ends — a namkaran needs no muhurta (Muhurta Chintamani, Samskara prakarana); these lists are for a naming done later.
• The Moon's nakshatra: the fixed, soft, swift and movable 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 Pratipada, Dwitiya, Tritiya, Panchami, Saptami, Dashami, Ekadashi, Dwadashi or Trayodashi of either half (published calendars list these nine; Muhurta Chintamani asks for no parva and no rikta tithi, and would also allow Shashthi, which the list leaves out).
• The weekday: only Monday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday — never Sunday, Tuesday or Saturday (Muhurta Chintamani, Samskara prakarana; published calendars apply it too).
• The hours: the forenoon is best and the midday middling; the hours from three fifths of the daytime on — Aparahna — and the night are left out (published calendars: before Aparahna; Brihaspati, quoted in Muhurta Chintamani's Samskara prakarana: never the afternoon). Venus' and Jupiter's combustion are not weighed for a late naming (the commentary), and no season closes it in the calendar view, which prints a late naming in either half of the year as published calendars do; the strict view keeps it to Uttarayana (below).
• The lagna, which both views check: only the hours whose rising sign is not movable — never Mesha, Karka, Tula or Makara — with the 8th house empty (Muhurta Chintamani, Samskara prakarana; read by the seven grahas as published calendars read it, the strict view counting Rahu and Ketu too), no malefic in the lagna and no full aspect of the Sun, Mars or Saturn on it (as published calendars apply it). 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

• A naming ceremony only in Uttarayana — the Sun in Makara, Kumbha, Meena, Mesha, Vrishabha or Mithuna (Kashyapa, quoted in Muhurta Chintamani's commentary, the Piyushadhara: a rite whose time has passed is done in Uttarayana).
• No sign of the Sun, Saturn or Mars rising — Mesha, Simha, Vrishchika, Makara or Kumbha (Guru in Jagan-mohana, quoted in Muhurta Chintamani's commentary, the Piyushadhara).
• Rahu and Ketu count in the lagna's 8th house: the books ask for the 8th empty, and the strict view reads it by all nine grahas, where published calendars and the calendar view count the seven.
• 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.
• The name's first letter by the child's birth star (the shatapada chakra) is not on this page: see the name letters guide.
• 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 namkaran 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 namkaran 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, the name's first syllables from the birth star, 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.