Upanayanam (Thread Ceremony) Muhurat August 2026

No upanayanam muhurat this month: it falls in a lunar month not used for this ceremony and Guru or Shukra asta (combust). These are the closest dates on either side.

• Sun, 7 Feb11:27 PM – 6:44 AM (8 Feb)Dhanishta → Shatabhisha nakshatra · Shukla Dwitiya→
• Mon, 8 Feb6:44 AM – 1:56 AM (9 Feb)Shatabhisha nakshatra · Shukla Dwitiya → Shukla Tritiya→
• Wed, 10 Feb3:04 AM – 6:43 AM (11 Feb)Uttara Bhadrapada → Revati nakshatra · Shukla Panchami→

Before August: Thu, 2 Jul 2026, Sun, 5 Jul 2026.

• Season: Uttarayana — the lunar months Magha, Phalguna, Chaitra, Vaisakha and Jyeshtha.
• Nakshatra: Ashwini, Rohini, Mrigashira, Punarvasu, Pushya, Hasta, Chitra, Swati, Anuradha, Shravana, Dhanishta, Shatabhisha, Revati or one of the three Uttaras.
• Tithi: Shukla Dwitiya, Tritiya, Panchami, Saptami, Dashami, Ekadashi, Dwadashi or Trayodashi, or Krishna Dwitiya, Tritiya or Panchami — the anadhyaya days are left out.
• Weekday: Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday.
• Not in Meena masa, an adhika month, Holashtak, or while Guru or Shukra is combust.

Pick a date and Stuti Mandir books a verified pandit for it, at home anywhere we serve in India. The upanayanam starts from ₹15,000; the full dakshina is shown before you pay online. For the exact lagna for your family, book a 20-minute upanayana (thread ceremony) muhurat call for ₹801.

• Every date is worked out from the panchang with the same astronomy as the Stuti Mandir Panchang: tithi from the Moon–Sun angle, nakshatra and yoga from their sidereal (Lahiri) longitudes, and the weekday from sunrise.
• A window opens only while the ceremony’s nakshatra, tithi and weekday are all favourable together, and closes at the first change that breaks one of them. Vishti (Bhadra) karana, the Vyatipata and Vaidhriti yogas and nakshatra gandanta are always left out.
• Times are IST. Tithi and nakshatra change at the same moment everywhere in India, so the windows hold nationwide; the weekday is taken from sunrise at Bengaluru, which can move the edge of a window that starts before dawn by a few minutes in your city.
• These are general (panchang shuddhi) dates. The pandit then checks the family’s tarabala and chandrabala and fixes the lagna inside the window — which is why the same date can suit one family better than another.