Griha Pravesh 2026

New Delhi, India· time zone follows this location

Up to 400 days. Chaturmas and Adhik Maas are found from a wider scan than the range you pick, so a short range still has them applied.

Why these days

• The moon sits on one of the steady or gentle stars — the sthira and mridu nakshatras the classical texts give to entering a dwelling (Muhurta Chintamani).
• The four monsoon months are left out. A house-warming is a samskara, a life rite, and rites are not performed during Chaturmas.
• Days when Venus or Jupiter are too close to the Sun to be seen are left out — Shukra Asta and Guru Asta, within 10° and 11° of the Sun. These are the two planets that bless a household, and the texts hold that they cannot do so while invisible.
• Magha, Phalguna, Vaishakha and Jyeshtha are the four lunar months the texts name as the best for moving in.
• Leap months (Adhik Maas) and the ancestral fortnight (Pitru Paksha) are left out.

Before you fix the date

• Which kind of move this is. The texts treat a brand-new house, a return after renovation and a house bought from someone else as three different cases (apurva, sapurva and dwandwah) with different rules. This list does not ask which one you are doing.
• Vastu. The direction the house faces and the layout inside it are a separate discipline, and nothing here looks at them.
• Pick the hour on the day — Rahu Kaal and the other daily windows are on Day Panchang.
• Have the householder's chart read. A date good in general can still be a poor one for the person whose home it is.

This list narrows a whole year down to a shortlist, reading one value per day at sunrise. A printed almanac checks the hours inside each day and allows a few more stars, so its list will be longer than this one and the two will not match date for date. Neither is a substitute for a practitioner.