January 2027 is the month the wedding season restarts, and it restarts hard. Nothing at all happens for the first fortnight because Kharmas is still running, and then the vivah muhurat january 2027 list opens on Friday the 15th and delivers nine dates in seventeen days. Or five dates, if your family follows the stricter classical rules. Both counts are defensible, and this page prints every candidate with its tithi, nakshatra and Delhi window, tiered by how many sources back it — plus the three specific reasons the counts differ.
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Kharmas — the solar month during which the Sun occupies Jupiter’s sign Dhanu — began at 10:29 AM IST on 16 December 2026 and holds through the first half of January. DrikPanchang’s New Delhi calendar labels every day from 1 to 13 January 2027 simply “Prohibited Solar month”, with no window published at all.
The Sun enters Makara at 09:14 PM on Thursday 14 January 2027 — after sunset, which is why Makar Sankranti is observed the next day, Friday 15 January, with a Delhi Punya Kala of 07:15 AM to 05:46 PM. DrikPanchang marks 14 January as a partial overlap with the prohibited month.
So 15 January is both Makar Sankranti and the first available wedding date of 2027. Every source we checked agrees on that, which almost never happens. If you want the full explanation of the block itself, our auspicious marriage dates 2026-2027 guide covers the whole season on both sides.
Vivah muhurat january 2027: the consensus-tiered table
All timings below are IST for Delhi, taken from DrikPanchang with the location set to New Delhi, and cross-checked against VedicFeed, VedicMatch and the classical-rule list published by Dr R.P. Sharma. The Consensus column says how many of those four back the date.
| Date | Day | Tithi | Nakshatra | Muhurat window (IST, Delhi) | Consensus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 Jan 2027 | Friday | Shukla Saptami | Revati | 07:15 AM – 02:13 PM | All sources |
| 18 Jan 2027 | Monday | Shukla Ekadashi | Rohini, Krittika | 09:05 – 09:12 PM (7 minutes) | Some sources (3 of 4) |
| 19 Jan 2027 | Tuesday | Dwadashi, Trayodashi | Rohini, Mrigashira | 07:49 AM – 07:14 AM (20 Jan) | Some sources (3 of 4) |
| 20 Jan 2027 | Wednesday | Shukla Trayodashi | Mrigashira | 07:14 AM – 04:17 PM | All sources |
| 24 Jan 2027 | Sunday | Krishna Tritiya | Magha | 10:20 AM – 09:29 PM | All sources |
| 26 Jan 2027 | Tuesday | Panchami, Shashthi | Uttara Phalguni, Hasta | 08:18 PM – 07:12 AM (27 Jan) | Some sources (3 of 4) |
| 27 Jan 2027 | Wednesday | Krishna Shashthi | Hasta | 07:12 AM – 11:56 PM | All sources |
| 29 Jan 2027 | Friday | Krishna Ashtami | Swati | No window published | Some sources (1 of 4) |
| 30 Jan 2027 | Saturday | Krishna Navami | Anuradha | 03:55 – 07:10 AM (31 Jan) | Some sources (3 of 4) |
| 31 Jan 2027 | Sunday | Krishna Dashami | Anuradha | 07:10 AM – 07:34 PM | Some sources (3 of 4) |
Ten candidate dates, four of them unanimous. Nothing on 16, 17, 21, 22, 23, 25 or 28 January, where either no marriage nakshatra is available or a prohibited yoga corrupts it. That is a genuinely busy month by recent standards — January 2026 had none at all, because Venus was combust.
The four dates every source agrees on
15, 20, 24 and 27 January survive both the permissive panchang engines and the strict classical filter. If two families are consulting two different pandits, start here — these are the dates that will not be argued about.
15 January, Friday, gives 07:15 AM to 02:13 PM under Revati on Shukla Saptami. Revati is one of the eleven classical marriage nakshatras and carries the sense of safe arrival. It is also Makar Sankranti and Thai Pongal, so half the country is already celebrating — good for atmosphere, difficult for logistics.
20 January, Wednesday, runs 07:14 AM to 04:17 PM under Mrigashira on Shukla Trayodashi. Nine daytime hours, a marriage nakshatra throughout, and no festival competing for the venue. For most families this is the single best date in the month.
24 January, Sunday, gives 10:20 AM to 09:29 PM under Magha — eleven hours spanning midday to late evening, which suits a full-day programme better than any other date here. A Sunday also means guests need no leave.
27 January, Wednesday, is the longest window of the month: 07:12 AM to 11:56 PM under Hasta on Krishna Shashthi, close to seventeen hours. Hasta is associated with skill and building a life with one’s own hands, and the lagna can be placed almost anywhere the venue allows.
Before locking any of them, settle the match. The 36 Guna calculation runs offline in seconds on Sahita on Google Play, so you can arrive at the pandit’s with the koota-by-koota breakdown already printed.
The five dates the panchang engines add
18, 19, 26, 30 and 31 January appear on DrikPanchang, VedicFeed and VedicMatch but not on the classical list. They are not invented — the astronomy is identical across all three — but each carries a caveat.
18 January is the extreme case. The published window is 09:05 PM to 09:12 PM: seven minutes. That is real, and it is the exact overlap during which everything clears at once, but seven minutes is not a wedding. Treat it as a technical entry rather than a bookable date.
19 January, by contrast, is one of the most generous windows of the month — 07:49 AM straight through to 07:14 AM the next morning, under Rohini giving way to Mrigashira. Its only problem is the day of the week. It is a Tuesday.
26 January runs 08:18 PM to 07:12 AM, an overnight window under Uttara Phalguni moving into Hasta. It is also a Tuesday and Republic Day. 30 January gives a pre-dawn slot of 03:55 to 07:10 AM under Anuradha, and 31 January follows with a comfortable 07:10 AM to 07:34 PM on the same nakshatra.
Three reasons the counts differ
Nine dates or five is not a dispute about the sky. It is three separate editorial rules, and knowing which one is operating lets you have a sensible conversation with an elder instead of a stalemate.
The Tuesday convention. The classical list states openly that Tuesdays are left out, as many families prefer — Mangalvar being Mars’s day. That single rule removes 19 and 26 January, two otherwise strong dates. If your family has no objection to Tuesdays, you get both back.
Rikta tithi handling. Chaturthi, Navami and Chaturdashi are rikta — “empty” — tithis, and strict lists drop them outright. That removes 30 January, which falls on Krishna Navami, even though its Anuradha nakshatra is impeccable and the window itself begins well after midnight.
Window length and the sunrise check. The classical method tests the panchang at sunrise; the engines scan the whole day for any interval where nakshatra, yoga, karana and tithi are simultaneously clean. On 18 January the nakshatra at Delhi sunrise is Krittika, which is not a marriage star — so the classical filter rejects the day while the engine finds a seven-minute pocket after Rohini begins.
The rules also run the other way. The classical list includes Friday 29 January, Swati nakshatra on Krishna Ashtami, which DrikPanchang blocks for a prohibited yoga corrupting most of the day; VedicFeed and VedicMatch omit it entirely. We print it because it appears on a serious list, but with no published window there is no lagna to work with. Ask your pandit for the specific hour before you consider it.
One honest gap: we could not identify which stated rule excludes 31 January from the classical list. Anuradha on Krishna Dashami breaks none of its published conditions. The list caps itself at five dates for the month and does not explain the omission, so treat 31 January as available but unconfirmed by that source.
Republic Day, Sankranti and the venue squeeze
Two of January’s ten candidates collide with national events, and this is not an astrological problem — it is a logistics one that costs real money.
15 January is Makar Sankranti in the north, Pongal in Tamil Nadu, Uttarayan in Gujarat and Rajasthan, Maghi in Punjab and Haryana. Priests are committed, kitchens are busy, and travel is at its annual peak. The date is astrologically excellent and practically awkward.
26 January is Republic Day, with road closures and security restrictions across Delhi and every state capital. Its muhurat is overnight anyway, 08:18 PM to 07:12 AM. If your venue sits inside a restricted zone, check with the local police before you print cards.
The wider squeeze is simpler: after a month of Kharmas, the entire country’s postponed weddings land in the same seventeen days. Venues, caterers and pandits in the metros are typically committed months out, and 20 and 27 January go first. Shortlist two dates, always.
Which is why the matching cannot wait for the venue call. Whatever the vivah muhurat january 2027 shortlist looks like, Sahita’s free kundali matching app runs the full Ashta Koota offline, so two families in two cities can compare the same numbers the same evening.
Where the clocks disagree, and how we resolved it
Compare the same date across sites and the opening times drift. For 15 January one source gives 07:15 AM and another 07:25 AM; on 27 January it is 07:12 AM against 07:24 AM. Neither is an error.
The closing moments — 02:13 PM, 04:17 PM, 09:29 PM, 11:56 PM — are astronomical events and match everywhere, to the minute. The opening moments are usually just local sunrise, and sunrise moves with longitude and with the site’s chosen reference point. Delhi sunrise on 15 January 2027 is 07:15 AM; by the 31st it has moved to 07:10 AM.
We treated DrikPanchang as the tiebreaker throughout, because it is the panchang most Indian pandits cross-check against, and because it is the only one of the four that publishes both the location and the blocking reason for every rejected day. Where a table starts a window at sunrise and does not name a city, treat the start as approximate.
Regional readers should also check the same dates in their own tradition’s terms. We publish the 2027 calendar in Hindi, Kannada, Telugu and Gujarati, because the filters a Telugu or Gujarati family applies are not identical to the Delhi panchang’s.
Finish guna milan before the pandit fixes the lagna
A date from the table above is a panchang-level clearance. It says the day is fit for weddings in general; it says nothing about your specific pair. The lagna — the ascendant rising at the moment of the pheras — is chosen afterwards, for your venue’s coordinates and against both charts.
No pandit will do that work until the match is settled, and with the whole country queuing for the same seventeen days you cannot afford to wait for an appointment. So the order is: match first, date second, lagna third. Run the free kundali matching tool for the 36 Guna Ashta Koota score and the Manglik check on both charts.
If the engagement has not happened yet, that has its own timing rules — our nishchayathartham muhurta guide covers how the ceremony is scheduled relative to the wedding date. Families who want the numbers on paper first will find the total out of 36, the zero-scoring kootas and any applicable cancellation on the result screen in the free Sahita app.
Your vivah muhurat january 2027 checklist
- Confirm the 36 Guna score and Manglik status for both charts — the free Sahita kundali matching app does this offline, in eleven languages.
- Decide as a family whether Tuesdays are acceptable; that alone changes nine dates into seven.
- Pick a primary and a backup date, and ignore 18 January unless a seven-minute lagna genuinely works for you.
- Get your own city’s sunrise — the window start moves with it, the close does not.
- Check venue access for 26 January before considering it.
- Ask the pandit for the exact lagna window, not just the date.
Looking further ahead, February 2027 is easier again and the spring windows are wider still, before Meena Malmas and Holashtak close things in March. Our auspicious wedding dates 2027 page maps the whole year, right through to the next Chaturmas.
Frequently asked questions
How many vivah muhurat dates are there in January 2027?
Nine on the mainstream panchang engines: 15, 18, 19, 20, 24, 26, 27, 30 and 31 January. DrikPanchang, VedicFeed and VedicMatch all publish the same nine for Delhi. The classical-rule list gives five instead — 15, 20, 24, 27 and 29 — excluding Tuesdays and rikta tithis, and adding 29 January, which the engines block.
What is the first wedding date after Kharmas?
Friday 15 January 2027, the day Makar Sankranti is observed in Delhi. The window runs 07:15 AM to 02:13 PM under Revati nakshatra on Shukla Saptami. The Sun’s actual entry into Makara is at 09:14 PM on 14 January, after sunset, which is why the festival and the first muhurat both fall on the 15th.
Why is the 18 January 2027 muhurat only seven minutes long?
Because that is the only interval on the day when nakshatra, yoga, karana and tithi are all simultaneously clean. Krittika holds at sunrise and Rohini begins later; the published window of 09:05 to 09:12 PM is the overlap. It is astronomically correct and practically unusable, which is why the classical list rejects the day outright.
Which January 2027 date has the longest muhurat window?
19 January, at roughly twenty-three and a half hours — 07:49 AM through to 07:14 AM the next morning, under Rohini and Mrigashira. But it is a Tuesday, which the classical filter excludes. Among the unanimous dates, 27 January is longest at close to seventeen hours, 07:12 AM to 11:56 PM under Hasta.
Are these vivah muhurat january 2027 timings valid for my city?
The dates are, and so are the closing times, because those are astronomical moments. The opening times are usually local sunrise, which shifts with longitude — Delhi’s 07:15 AM on 15 January is not Mumbai’s or Chennai’s. Get your own city’s panchang for the exact start, and ask the pandit to fix the lagna for your venue’s coordinates.
Can we marry on Makar Sankranti day itself?
In 2027, yes — because the transit happens on 14 January and the festival is observed on the 15th, DrikPanchang publishes a full marriage muhurat for 15 January and all four sources agree. Sankranti days themselves are normally avoided for ceremonies, so this only works when the transit and the observation fall on different days.
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