Marriage Dates 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 eleven stars the texts name for marriage — the vivah nakshatras of the Muhurta Chintamani.
• The four monsoon months are left out. Marriage is a samskara, a life rite, and rites are not performed during Chaturmas.
• Leap months (Adhik Maas) and the ancestral fortnight (Pitru Paksha) are left out, as they are for every samskara.
• The two months when the Sun is in Sagittarius or Pisces are left out — Kharmas, also called Malmas, in which weddings are traditionally not held.
• Days when Venus or Jupiter are too close to the Sun to be seen are left out — Shukra Asta and Guru Asta. These are the planets of love and of blessing, and a wedding is not fixed while either is invisible. This single rule removes the whole of January 2026.

Before you fix the date

• Have both charts matched. This is the step that actually decides a wedding date, and nothing here does it: guna milan, Mangal dosha, the bride's Chandrabalam and Tarabalam, and the rising sign at the chosen hour all need two birth charts. Treat this list as the shortlist you bring to that reading, not as the answer.
• Fix the hour, not just the day. A wedding muhurat is a window of minutes inside the date, and an astrologer or priest sets it.
• Check that the star lasts long enough to hold the ceremony — these lists read one value at sunrise.
• Follow your family and regional custom, which differs legitimately and outranks any calculator.

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.