Wedding Muhurat Calculator

A muhurat is an electional moment chosen for an event so that the planetary configuration supports it. For weddings, classical Vedic texts emphasize five panchang factors at the moment of the ceremony: tithi (lunar day), nakshatra (lunar mansion), vara (weekday), yoga, and karana. Combined with the bride's natal moon (Tara Bal) and the bride and groom's individual charts, these point to days where the marriage starts on the strongest possible energetic footing.

For each day in your date range, we compute the panchang at ~06:30 IST (a sunrise proxy). Auspicious tithis (Shukla Dwitiya, Tritiya, Panchami, Saptami, Ekadashi, Trayodashi) score +4. Inauspicious tithis (Pratipada, Chaturthi, Ashtami, Navami, Chaturdashi, Amavasya, Purnima) score −6. Auspicious nakshatras (Rohini, Mrigashira, Magha, Uttara Phalguni, Hasta, Swati, Anuradha, Mula, Uttara Ashadha, Uttara Bhadrapada, Revati) score +4. Tuesdays score −2 (traditionally avoided for weddings); Saturdays score −1. If you provide the bride's nakshatra, Tara Bal adds ±2-3 based on the classical 9-tara cycle.

Tithi at sunrise is the classical rule. True sunrise depends on the wedding venue's latitude/longitude and the date. For a general muhurat search across India, 06:30 IST is within ~30 minutes of sunrise across all major Indian cities for most of the year — close enough to identify the right candidate days. For the actual ceremony muhurat, your astrologer adjusts to the venue's exact sunrise, sets the lagna of the muhurat itself, and picks the auspicious time-of-day window.

The strict Chaturmas window in 2026 runs roughly mid-July to mid-November (Devshayani Ekadashi to Devuthani Ekadashi). Many traditions avoid weddings entirely during this period. We don't hard-block these dates because some communities (and some specific exception days) do permit weddings — but the inauspicious tithis during this window will score low, and you'll see most candidates falling outside it naturally. For a strict interpretation, simply pick a date range that ends before mid-July or starts after mid-November.

2026 has no Adhik Maas (intercalary lunar month). Panchak (5-day inauspicious window per ~27 days) and eclipse-windows are not currently scored as separate factors — they often correlate with low tithi/nakshatra scores already. For a strict reading, ask in a consultation.

Tara Bal compares the candidate-day's nakshatra to the bride's natal moon nakshatra by counting forward and grouping into 9 categories (Janma, Sampat, Vipat, Kshema, Pratyak, Sadhaka, Vadha, Mitra, Param Mitra). Janma (1), Vipat (3), Pratyak (5), and Vadha (7) are inauspicious; the rest are favourable. It's the classical way of personalizing a generic muhurat to the bride's chart specifically.

Drik Panchang publishes general-purpose auspicious dates for the whole country, computed at one reference location. We compute the panchang fresh for each request, score each day on classical wedding-specific criteria (not generic auspicious-day rules), and let you optionally personalize with the bride's nakshatra for Tara Bal. We also explain WHY each day scored what it did, in plain language, so you can dig deeper if you want.