Vehicle Purchase 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 as many printed panchangs apply them. The strict view starts from the same windows and also applies 16 ghatis (6 h 24 min) on either side of each sankranti and Holashtak in the regions where Muhurta Chintamani keeps it. 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.

Buying a vehicle needs no season in the rules these lists follow: Simhastha Guru, the combustion of Venus and Jupiter, Kharmas and Chaturmas are applied to weddings and a new home, not to a purchase. So here the strict view adds only the sankranti hours (and Holashtak in the regions where the book keeps it): it closes 2 days the calendar view keeps and shortens the windows of 1 day.

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.

Where this calendar view and the checked almanac differ, a rule explains it. That almanac's vehicle list also leaves out Shukla Pratipada, both Dwitiyas, both Saptamis and both Dwadashis, never uses Ashwini, and leaves out Pitru Paksha (a custom); among the tithis this list bars only the rikta tithis and Amavasya, and it counts Ashwini among the good stars. That almanac applies Bhadra's abode, offers windows through the night and cuts no nakshatra gandanta; this list avoids Bhadra whole, keeps to the hours of daylight and cuts the gandanta for every act.

Kharmas, Simhastha and the sankranti hours in 2027

No season rules out buying a vehicle in these lists. Only the strict view avoids the sankranti hours below. The other periods follow with their dates, for families who keep them for a purchase too.

The sankranti hours (strict view)

The strict view avoids 16 ghatis (6 h 24 min) on either side of the moment the Sun enters a sign (B.V. Raman, Muhurtha; Kalaprakasika's 30 ghatis are not applied). The sankrantis of 2027 at New Delhi, in IST:

• Makara (Capricorn): the Sun enters at 14 Jan 2027, 21:10; avoided 14 Jan 2027, 14:46 – 15 Jan 2027, 03:34
• Kumbha (Aquarius): the Sun enters at 13 Feb 2027, 10:09; avoided 13 Feb 2027, 03:45–16:33
• Meena (Pisces): the Sun enters at 15 Mar 2027, 07:00; avoided 15 Mar 2027, 00:36–13:24
• Mesha (Aries): the Sun enters at 14 Apr 2027, 15:28; avoided 14 Apr 2027, 09:04–21:52
• Vrishabha (Taurus): the Sun enters at 15 May 2027, 12:19; avoided 15 May 2027, 05:55–18:43
• Mithuna (Gemini): the Sun enters at 15 Jun 2027, 18:55; avoided 15 Jun 2027, 12:31 – 16 Jun 2027, 01:19
• Karka (Cancer): the Sun enters at 17 Jul 2027, 05:48; avoided 16 Jul 2027, 23:24 – 17 Jul 2027, 12:12
• Simha (Leo): the Sun enters at 17 Aug 2027, 14:13; avoided 17 Aug 2027, 07:49–20:37
• Kanya (Virgo): the Sun enters at 17 Sep 2027, 14:10; avoided 17 Sep 2027, 07:46–20:34
• Tula (Libra): the Sun enters at 18 Oct 2027, 02:08; avoided 17 Oct 2027, 19:44 – 18 Oct 2027, 08:32
• Vrishchika (Scorpio): the Sun enters at 17 Nov 2027, 01:58; avoided 16 Nov 2027, 19:34 – 17 Nov 2027, 08:22
• Dhanu (Sagittarius): the Sun enters at 16 Dec 2027, 16:38; avoided 16 Dec 2027, 10:14–23:02

Neither list rules out buying a vehicle for Simhastha Guru, the combustion of Venus and Jupiter, Kharmas, Chaturmas or Holashtak. Muhurta Chintamani's list of acts kept away from Simhastha and combustion does not name a purchase. Holashtak: Muhurta Chintamani (Shubhashubha prakarana, quoting Shighrabodha) keeps it only on the Beas, the Ravi and the Sutlej and at Pushkar; many families across North India keep it by custom, and these lists do not apply it at New Delhi. If your family avoids purchases in any of them, skip these 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
• Simhastha Guru (Jupiter in the rest of Simha): 15 Sep 2027, 09:56 – 26 Nov 2027, 18:45
• Venus combust (Shukra asta): 6 Jul 2027, 20:42 – 17 Sep 2027, 22:48
• Jupiter combust (Guru asta): 16 Aug 2027, 19:42 – 15 Sep 2027, 03:12
• 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
• Chaturmas: 13 Jul 2027, 12:09 – 10 Nov 2027, 09:11
• Holashtak: 15 Mar 2027, 10:51 – 22 Mar 2027, 16:13

How these dates are chosen

• The Moon's nakshatra: the movable stars — Punarvasu, Swati, Shravana, Dhanishtha and Shatabhisha — best (Muhurta Chintamani, Nakshatra prakarana, gives the movable class to riding and vehicles); Ashwini, Rohini, Mrigashira, Pushya, Hasta, Chitra, Anuradha and Revati good, a grade of this list's own on the book's star classes; never another star.
• The weekday: never a Tuesday or Saturday — a custom, not a rule from the books.
• Daylight only: sunrise to sunset. No season: Simhastha, combustion, Kharmas and Chaturmas are not applied to a purchase.
• The tithi: no rikta tithi (Chaturthi, Navami or Chaturdashi of either half) and no Amavasya (B.V. Raman, Muhurtha, for beginnings in general; Muhurta Chintamani states it in its Vivaha prakarana).
• 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; the larger of the counts the texts give — 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 benefic's weekday (Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday), the bright half and Pushya on a Thursday (Guru-Pushya) or a Sunday (Ravi-Pushya) — not a probability.

What the strict view adds

• 16 ghatis (6 h 24 min) on either side of each sankranti (B.V. Raman, Muhurtha).
• 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; many families across North India keep it by custom, and these lists do not apply it at New Delhi.

What these lists leave to you

• The lagna of the moment: the rising sign at the time of the act is not chosen here.
• Your own factors: Tara Bala and Chandra Bala depend on your birth star and Moon sign. They are not checked here.
• Eclipse days, kshaya and vriddhi tithis, tithi gandanta, the dagdha and visha tithi–weekday pairs, Panchaka and Chandra Bala's vedha 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 vehicle purchase list for your city and your own dates, up to three months at a time. Start from a month:

A personal check with your own birth star

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

Ask the AI astrologer about a date from this list. It computes both checks from your kundli, reads the day's windows for the place saved in your kundli and names the rule behind its answer.