Vivah Muhurat in October 2026

• 1–31 October Chaturmas runs from 24 July 2026 to 20 November 2026.

• Kharmas is closed: no marriage while the Sun is in Dhanu (Sagittarius) or Meena (Pisces) (16 December 2025 – 14 January 2026, 15 March 2026 – 14 April 2026 and 16 December 2026 – 14 January 2027).
• Chaturmas is closed: from the moment Devshayani Ekadashi begins (24 July 2026, 9:13 AM) to the moment Devuthani Ekadashi begins (20 November 2026, 7:16 AM).
• An adhika month is closed: Adhika Jyeshtha, an adhika month, runs from 17 May 2026 to 15 June 2026.
• Guru and Shukra must be clear of the Sun: no marriage while Jupiter is within 11° of the Sun or Venus within 10° (8° while retrograde) — the classical combustion (asta) orbs.
• Nakshatra: the Moon in one of the eleven vivah nakshatras — Rohini, Mrigashira, Magha, Uttara Phalguni, Hasta, Swati, Anuradha, Mula, Uttara Ashadha, Uttara Bhadrapada and Revati.
• Tithi: never Amavasya. The rikta tithis (Chaturthi, Navami, Chaturdashi) are allowed, because the published almanacs allow them for marriage, and are marked in the table.
• Yoga and karana: the window avoids the nine rejected yogas — Atiganda, Ganda, Parigha, Shula, Vaidhriti, Vajra, Vishkamba, Vyaghata and Vyatipata — and the karanas Chatushpada, Kimstughna, Naga, Shakuni and Vishti.
• The day: sunrise to the next sunrise, for New Delhi. A day that any closed season touches at all is left out whole; inside the days that remain, the muhurat is the time when every condition above holds at once.
• Not judged here: which lagna carries the pheras — the month pages list every lagna that rises inside each window — and the couple's own charts (Guru, Surya and Chandra bala). A priest fixes the lagna inside the window.

Vivah Muhurat 2026 — the full rules and the whole year's list