The answer first: the vehicle months of 2027

A muhurat (मुहूर्त) is the time chosen for a beginning. For a vehicle, the beginning is the delivery and the first drive: the day the keys come home and the vehicle first goes out on the road, often to a temple. Choosing it happens in two steps. First, the calendar rules out most days of the year and leaves a shortlist that is the same for everyone in a city. Then the family checks the shortlist against the buyer’s birth star and picks the hour. This guide is the first step for 2027.

In India, 35 dates in 2027 meet all three of the favourable lists that Pandit Ji, our chat guide, uses for a vehicle, at sunrise in Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai together. 19 of them fall outside every closed period. The other 16 fall in Kharmas or Chaturmas, the stretches of the year that many families keep free of new beginnings. Pandit Ji does not close those periods for a vehicle, so we list those dates in their own group: use them or leave them, as your family does.

January, February and November are the fullest months outside the closed periods, with three dates each. August, September and October have none: Chaturmas runs from 14 July to 10 November. The spring Kharmas, 16 March to 14 April, takes the year’s best-known day, the Guru Pushya of 18 March: the Pushya nakshatra on a Thursday, explained below.

• January — 15, 20 and 28 January (Kharmas ends on 14 January).
• February — 11, 19 and 25 February.
• March — 11 and 15 March; then 18 and 24 March, in Kharmas.
• April — 8 April, in Kharmas; 23 April. 19 April passes in Delhi and Chennai only.
• May — 12 May.
• June — 7 and 14 June.
• July — 2 and 5 July; then three dates in Chaturmas.
• August to October — Chaturmas dates only (listed below).
• November — 1 November, in Chaturmas; then 12, 18 and 24 November.
• December — 9 and 16 December; then 22 December, in Kharmas.

How a day qualifies: three lists at sunrise

Pandit Ji, our chat guide, has a muhurat tool with a “vehicle purchase” activity. Its rule has three favourable lists: tithis, nakshatras and weekdays. It rejects a day outright only when the tithi is one of the forbidden ones; every other day gets points for each list it meets, and extra points for special combinations such as a Pushya on a Thursday or a Sunday. The tool returns at most five days of the range you ask about. That is generous: in India it accepts about 228 days of the year, three days in five. A list that long helps nobody, so this guide keeps only the days that meet all three of Pandit Ji’s lists at once. It is a list of days that pass the rule in full, not a ranking.

The tithi (तिथि) is the lunar day: the time the Moon takes to gain 12 degrees on the Sun. A date must hold Dwitiya (2nd), Tritiya (3rd), Panchami (5th), Saptami (7th), Dashami (10th), Ekadashi (11th) or Trayodashi (13th) at sunrise. These count in both halves of the month. Chaturthi (4th), Ashtami (8th), Navami (9th), Chaturdashi (14th), Purnima (the full moon) and Amavasya (the new moon) are forbidden.

The nakshatra (नक्षत्र) is the lunar mansion the Moon is in, one of 27. A date must hold Ashwini, Rohini, Mrigashira, Punarvasu, Pushya, Hasta, Chitra, Anuradha or Revati at sunrise. Ashwini’s deities are the Ashvins, the twin horsemen of the gods. Pushya is the best known: it is the nakshatra most families choose for a purchase of lasting value, gold, a home or a vehicle. Other vehicle lists, our 2026 vehicle guide among them, also favour Uttara Phalguni, Uttara Ashadha, Shravana and Dhanishta. Pandit Ji’s list does not include them, so days with those nakshatras are not on this list.

The weekday must be Monday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday. Tuesday, Saturday and Sunday are not forbidden by Pandit Ji’s rule; they get no weekday points, so they are not on this list. Other traditions hold a Sunday Pushya in high regard, as the next section explains.

Each date below shows its paksha. Shukla paksha (शुक्ल पक्ष) is the bright fortnight, when the Moon grows; Krishna paksha (कृष्ण पक्ष) is the dark fortnight, when it wanes. Some families buy only in the bright fortnight. That is a family practice, not one of the three lists, so we keep the Krishna dates and you can drop them.

The one Guru Pushya, and why it falls in Kharmas

Pandit Ji’s vehicle rule carries one note: Pushya on a Thursday is widely held to be the best day to buy a vehicle. A Thursday Pushya is called Guru Pushya, because Thursday is Guru’s day, the day of Brihaspati (Jupiter), and Brihaspati is also the deity of the Pushya nakshatra.

Many families hold a Pushya on a Sunday, Ravi Pushya, in the same regard, and our 2026 vehicle guide calls both doubly auspicious. Pandit Ji’s tool also gives Ravi Pushya extra points. In 2027 Pushya holds the sunrise of two Sundays. Sunday 26 September holds it in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and London, with Krishna Ekadashi, inside both Chaturmas and Pitru Paksha; it misses this list only because Sunday is not on Pandit Ji’s weekday list for a vehicle. Sunday 29 August holds it in Mumbai, London and New Jersey but not in Delhi or Chennai, inside Chaturmas. Its tithi is Krishna Dwadashi in Mumbai, which is not on the tithi list, and Krishna Trayodashi in London and New Jersey.

In 2027, only one Guru Pushya meets all three lists: Thursday, 18 March, with Shukla Ekadashi at sunrise. It meets them in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, London and New Jersey alike. But it falls in Kharmas, which runs from 16 March to 14 April in India. If your family waits out Kharmas, this is not your day; if it does not, it is the strongest day of the year on this rule.

Three other Thursdays come close and miss. On Thursday 15 April the Moon is in Pushya at Indian sunrise, but the tithi is Shukla Navami, which the rule forbids. On Thursday 18 February and Thursday 18 November, Pushya begins only after sunrise. The day after the first of these, Friday 19 February, holds Pushya at sunrise with Shukla Trayodashi, and it is on the India list: it is the year’s first Pushya date on that list.

The closed periods of 2027, and why we mark them instead of removing them

Three periods of the year are widely kept free of new beginnings. Pandit Ji does not close them for a vehicle, so this list does not remove them. It puts their dates in their own group, because many families and many Pandits do wait. Regional calendars do not all keep these periods the same way, and many families treat a vehicle more lightly than a wedding or a housewarming, so ask your family Pandit how yours does.

Kharmas (खरमास) is the time when the Sun is in the sidereal sign of Dhanu (Sagittarius) or Meena (Pisces). A day counts as Kharmas when the Sun is in one of those signs at that day’s sunrise. In 2027 it covers 1 to 14 January (the Kharmas that began in December 2026), 16 March to 14 April, and 17 to 31 December in India. The Sun enters Meena on 15 March and Dhanu on 16 December, both after Indian sunrise, so those two days are still outside Kharmas, and both are on the list.

Chaturmas (चातुर्मास), the four months of the rainy season, runs from Devshayani Ekadashi, when Vishnu is held to lie down to sleep, to Dev Uthani Ekadashi, when he wakes. In 2027 it runs from 14 July to 10 November in India, and to 9 November in London and New Jersey. Our 2026 guide notes that vehicle purchase in Chaturmas varies by family rule.

Pitru Paksha (पितृ पक्ष) is the fortnight of the ancestors, when families offer shraddha, the rites for those who have died. In 2027 it runs from 15 to 29 September, inside Chaturmas. Few families bring home a new vehicle in it.

2027 has no adhik maas, the extra lunar month the calendar adds about once in three years, so no month is closed for that reason.

Every 2027 date in India, with its tithi and nakshatra

These dates meet all three lists at sunrise in Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai. Each shows the weekday, then the tithi and nakshatra at Delhi sunrise; Mumbai and Chennai have the same on every date. Other Indian cities will match on almost every date, but check yours on the daily panchang.

Two marks need a word. The karana (करण) is half a tithi, and each has a name. “Vishti” means the karana at sunrise is Vishti, also called Bhadra: the half of certain tithis that is held to obstruct new work. The day still qualifies, but plan the first drive after Vishti ends. “Short” means the tithi or the nakshatra that qualifies the day ends within two hours of sunrise, so the first drive has to be early, or you may prefer another day.

One more date, Monday 19 April (Shukla Trayodashi, Hasta at Delhi sunrise; short), qualifies in Delhi and Chennai but not in Mumbai, where the Trayodashi ends ten minutes before sunrise. It is the first date after the spring Kharmas ends in those two cities.

• January — Fri 15 (Shukla Saptami, Revati) · Wed 20 (Shukla Trayodashi, Mrigashira) · Thu 28 (Krishna Saptami, Chitra; Vishti).
• February — Thu 11 (Shukla Panchami, Revati: Vasant Panchami) · Fri 19 (Shukla Trayodashi, Pushya) · Thu 25 (Krishna Panchami, Chitra).
• March — Thu 11 (Shukla Tritiya, Revati) · Mon 15 (Shukla Saptami, Rohini).
• April — Fri 23 (Krishna Tritiya, Anuradha).
• May — Wed 12 (Shukla Saptami, Pushya).
• June — Mon 7 (Shukla Tritiya, Punarvasu) · Mon 14 (Shukla Ekadashi, Chitra).
• July — Fri 2 (Krishna Trayodashi, Rohini) · Mon 5 (Shukla Dwitiya, Punarvasu).
• November — Fri 12 (Shukla Trayodashi, Revati; short) · Thu 18 (Krishna Panchami, Punarvasu) · Wed 24 (Krishna Ekadashi, Hasta).
• December — Thu 9 (Shukla Ekadashi, Revati) · Thu 16 (Krishna Tritiya, Punarvasu; Vishti).
• In Kharmas — Thu 18 March (Shukla Ekadashi, Pushya: the Guru Pushya) · Wed 24 March (Krishna Dwitiya, Chitra) · Thu 8 April (Shukla Dwitiya, Ashwini) · Wed 22 December (Krishna Dashami, Chitra).
• In Chaturmas — Wed 14 July (Shukla Ekadashi, Anuradha; Vishti) · Mon 26 July (Krishna Saptami, Ashwini) · Thu 29 July (Krishna Dashami, Rohini; Vishti; short) · Wed 11 August (Shukla Dashami, Anuradha) · Fri 27 August (Krishna Dashami, Mrigashira; Vishti) · Fri 3 September (Shukla Tritiya, Hasta) · Wed 22 September (Krishna Saptami, Rohini; Vishti; also in Pitru Paksha) · Fri 1 October (Shukla Dwitiya, Chitra) · Mon 4 October (Shukla Panchami, Anuradha) · Wed 20 October (Krishna Panchami, Mrigashira) · Fri 22 October (Krishna Saptami, Punarvasu) · Mon 1 November (Shukla Tritiya, Anuradha).

The festival days: Vasant Panchami, Akshaya Tritiya and Dhanteras

Many families do not use a rule list for a vehicle at all. They buy on a festival held to be auspicious in itself. Here is where three of them fall in 2027, by our festival calendar for Delhi, and how they meet the three lists.

Vasant Panchami falls on Thursday, 11 February. It holds Shukla Panchami and Revati at sunrise, so it meets all three lists and is on the February line above.

Akshaya Tritiya falls on Saturday, 8 May. Many families treat it as a day that needs no muhurat check for any purchase. It misses one list only: Saturday is not one of the rule’s weekdays. Families that keep Akshaya Tritiya as self-auspicious buy on it anyway.

Dhanteras falls on Wednesday, 27 October, inside Chaturmas. It is the classic day for buying metal, and many families bring home a vehicle on it. At Delhi sunrise it holds Krishna Trayodashi, a favourable tithi, but the nakshatra is Uttara Phalguni, which is not on Pandit Ji’s vehicle list (some other lists include it), so it is not on our list. As with Akshaya Tritiya, families that keep the festival as auspicious in itself do not need the list.

London and New Jersey: the same rules, different days

A tithi or a nakshatra begins at one instant for the whole world. What changes from place to place is the sunrise that names the day. London’s sunrise comes about five hours after Delhi’s by the world clock, and New Jersey’s about ten, so a tithi that begins in the Indian afternoon can already hold the London or New Jersey sunrise of the same day. The diaspora lists share most dates with India, but not all.

The closed periods move a little too. Kharmas begins on 15 March in London and New Jersey, a day earlier than in India, because the Sun enters Meena before the local sunrise there. New Jersey’s spring Kharmas ends on 13 April, and its December Kharmas begins on 16 December. Chaturmas ends on 9 November in both cities, and in New Jersey it begins on 13 July.

The lists below are computed at London and at Edison, New Jersey, at sunrise on each date, with the same three lists. London has 34 dates, 19 of them outside the closed periods. New Jersey has 30, 17 outside. A family elsewhere in Britain or on the American east coast will match on nearly every date. For any other city, ask Pandit Ji, which computes the panchang at the place you name.

• London, outside the closed periods — Fri 15 January (Shukla Saptami, Revati; short) · Wed 20 (Shukla Trayodashi, Mrigashira) · Thu 28 (Krishna Saptami, Chitra; Vishti) · Thu 11 February (Shukla Panchami, Revati) · Wed 10 March (Shukla Dwitiya, Revati) · Thu 11 (Shukla Tritiya, Ashwini) · Fri 23 April (Krishna Tritiya, Anuradha) · Wed 12 May (Shukla Saptami, Pushya) · Wed 2 June (Krishna Trayodashi, Ashwini) · Mon 7 (Shukla Tritiya, Punarvasu) · Mon 14 (Shukla Ekadashi, Chitra) · Fri 2 July (Krishna Trayodashi, Rohini) · Mon 5 (Shukla Dwitiya, Pushya) · Thu 11 November (Shukla Trayodashi, Revati) · Mon 15 (Krishna Dwitiya, Rohini) · Thu 18 (Krishna Panchami, Punarvasu) · Thu 25 (Krishna Trayodashi, Chitra) · Thu 9 December (Shukla Ekadashi, Revati) · Wed 15 (Krishna Dwitiya, Punarvasu).
• London, in Kharmas — Fri 1 January (Krishna Dashami, Chitra) · Wed 17 March (Shukla Dashami, Punarvasu) · Thu 18 (Shukla Ekadashi, Pushya: the Guru Pushya) · Wed 24 (Krishna Dwitiya, Chitra; short) · Thu 8 April (Shukla Dwitiya, Ashwini) · Wed 22 December (Krishna Dashami, Chitra; Vishti).
• London, in Chaturmas — Wed 14 July (Shukla Ekadashi, Anuradha; Vishti) · Mon 26 (Krishna Saptami, Ashwini; short) · Thu 29 (Krishna Ekadashi, Rohini) · Fri 6 August (Shukla Panchami, Hasta) · Fri 3 September (Shukla Tritiya, Hasta) · Wed 22 (Krishna Saptami, Rohini; Vishti; also in Pitru Paksha) · Fri 1 October (Shukla Dwitiya, Chitra) · Mon 4 (Shukla Panchami, Anuradha) · Wed 20 (Krishna Panchami, Mrigashira).
• New Jersey, outside the closed periods — Thu 28 January (Krishna Saptami, Chitra) · Thu 11 February (Shukla Panchami, Revati) · Thu 18 (Shukla Trayodashi, Punarvasu) · Wed 10 March (Shukla Tritiya, Revati) · Fri 23 April (Krishna Tritiya, Anuradha) · Mon 31 May (Krishna Ekadashi, Revati) · Mon 7 June (Shukla Tritiya, Punarvasu; short) · Mon 14 (Shukla Ekadashi, Chitra; Vishti) · Fri 2 July (Krishna Trayodashi, Rohini; short) · Mon 5 (Shukla Dwitiya, Pushya) · Thu 11 November (Shukla Trayodashi, Revati) · Mon 15 (Krishna Dwitiya, Rohini) · Thu 18 (Krishna Panchami, Punarvasu) · Thu 25 (Krishna Trayodashi, Chitra; short) · Wed 8 December (Shukla Dashami, Revati) · Thu 9 (Shukla Ekadashi, Ashwini; Vishti) · Wed 15 (Krishna Tritiya, Punarvasu).
• New Jersey, in Kharmas — Wed 17 March (Shukla Dashami, Punarvasu) · Thu 18 (Shukla Ekadashi, Pushya: the Guru Pushya; Vishti) · Wed 24 (Krishna Tritiya, Chitra) · Thu 8 April (Shukla Dwitiya, Ashwini; short) · Wed 22 December (Krishna Dashami, Chitra; Vishti).
• New Jersey, in Chaturmas — Thu 29 July (Krishna Ekadashi, Rohini) · Fri 6 August (Shukla Panchami, Hasta) · Mon 6 September (Shukla Saptami, Anuradha) · Fri 17 (Krishna Dwitiya, Revati; also in Pitru Paksha) · Wed 22 (Krishna Saptami, Rohini; Vishti; short; also in Pitru Paksha) · Fri 1 October (Shukla Dwitiya, Chitra) · Mon 4 (Shukla Panchami, Anuradha) · Wed 27 (Krishna Trayodashi, Hasta).

From a date on the list to your first drive

A date on this list is open for a vehicle in general. It is not yet the muhurat for your vehicle. Two checks come next.

First, the date against the buyer’s birth star. A day can be good for everyone and still unfavourable for one person. The count of nine taras, counted from the birth nakshatra to the day’s nakshatra, is the usual first test, and our Tarabala guide explains it. Our free Tarabala check takes a birth nakshatra and shows which of the coming 30 days pass, so use it in the month before the delivery. If the vehicle is for the family, check the date for the person who will drive it most.

Second, the hour. The Vahan Puja, a short puja at the vehicle with a tilak on the steering wheel or handlebar, a coconut and a lamp, and the first drive are timed clear of Vishti and of Rahu Kaal, one-eighth of the daylight (about an hour and a half in India) that is held unfit for a beginning. Our 2026 vehicle guide walks through the puja step by step. The daily panchang shows the Rahu Kaal for your city on any date.

Book the date with the dealer two to four weeks ahead. If the dealer cannot deliver on the day, many families take a symbolic delivery on the muhurat, with the papers signed, the tilak applied and a short first drive, and bring the vehicle home for good later.

Honest questions, honest answers

Is a Sunday or a Saturday Pushya wrong for a vehicle? No. A Sunday Pushya, Ravi Pushya, is widely held to be as strong as Guru Pushya, and Pandit Ji’s tool gives it extra points. The Ravi Pushya of 26 September is missing here only because this list keeps Pandit Ji’s weekday list strictly. A Saturday Pushya is different: many families avoid Saturday for a new vehicle, and some make an exception for Pushya. Ask your family Pandit.

Why is this list shorter than other 2027 lists? Because it keeps only the days that meet all three of Pandit Ji’s lists at once. Pandit Ji on its own accepts many more days and ranks them, with extra points for special combinations, so it can rank a day that is not here above one that is. We chose the strict list so that every date here meets the rule in full.

We live in India but the vehicle is for a son or daughter abroad. Which list do we use? The list for the place where the vehicle is delivered and first driven. The muhurat belongs to the place of the beginning.

Does a muhurat apply to a second-hand vehicle, or a vehicle for work? Many families keep it for any vehicle that joins the household. The muhurat belongs to the day it becomes yours and first goes out on the road.

Can we take delivery on a date that is not on the list? Many families do, for good reasons, and you can still choose the best hour on the day you have. This list shows where the rule is fully met; it does not forbid the other days.

Going deeper

For the dates left in 2026 and the Vahan Puja, see our Vehicle Purchase Muhurat 2026 guide. For the year’s other beginnings, see the Vivah Muhurat 2027 guide and the Annaprashan Muhurat 2027 guide. For the method behind every muhurat, read Finding the right muhurat.

To check a date at your own city, open the daily panchang, which shows the tithi, nakshatra and Rahu Kaal at your sunrise for any date, or ask Pandit Ji, which computes the panchang at the place you name and weighs a date against the vehicle rule.