This page applies this app's travel muhurat rules to January 2027. The Muhurat calculator and the Muhurat feature run an engine that scores three 90-minute windows a day, at 06:40, 09:15 and 15:30 IST, so January has 93. Of those, 30 have a nakshatra it lists for travel, 23 overlap Rahu Kaal, and 4 pass every general rule.
Travel windows in January 2027 that pass every general rule
| Date | Window (IST) | Moon nakshatra | Tithi, paksha |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday 11 January | 9:15 to 10:45 AM | Dhanishta | 3, Shukla (4 from 09:31) |
| Friday 15 January | 6:40 to 8:10 AM | Revati | 7, Shukla |
| Friday 22 January | 6:40 to 8:10 AM | Punarvasu | 15, Shukla |
| Friday 22 January | 3:30 to 5:00 PM | Pushya | 15, Shukla |
The 11 January window passes on Shukla 3, read at its start; a start from 09:31, 16 minutes in, would fall on Shukla 4, an avoided tithi. No other window passes every rule; 23 more miss by exactly one factor:
| The one factor that fails | Windows in January 2027 (IST) |
|---|---|
| Nakshatra not on the list: 9 | 8 Jan, 6:40 AM and 3:30 PM; 14 Jan, all three; 18 Jan, 9:15 AM and 3:30 PM; 19 Jan, 6:40 AM and 9:15 AM |
| Weekday not on the list: 6 | 9 Jan, 3:30 PM (Saturday); 10 Jan, 6:40 AM and 9:15 AM (Sunday); 20 Jan, all three (Wednesday) |
| Tithi on the avoided list: 3 | 11 Jan, 3:30 PM (Shukla 4); 15 Jan, 3:30 PM (Shukla 8); 21 Jan, 3:30 PM (Shukla 14) |
| Overlaps Rahu Kaal: 3 | 11 Jan, 6:40 AM; 15 Jan, 9:15 AM; 22 Jan, 9:15 AM |
| Dark half (Krishna paksha): 2 | 4 Jan, 9:15 AM and 3:30 PM |
How the days are chosen: the five general factors
A window "passes every rule" when all five are favourable: the Moon's nakshatra, tithi and paksha at the window's start, Rahu Kaal and the weekday. That counts factors on the engine's lists; it is neither the engine's score nor a ruling from any text.
| Rule | On the list for travel in this engine | Where it comes from |
|---|---|---|
| Moon nakshatra | Ashwini, Mrigashira, Punarvasu, Pushya, Hasta, Anuradha, Shravana, Dhanishta or Revati | The engine's list; no text in the library holds it. |
| Tithi | Not the 4th, 8th, 9th or 14th tithi of either half (the engine counts 1 to 30: 4, 8, 9, 14 in the bright half, 19, 23, 24, 29 in the dark half) | The engine's list. Its comment calls 4, 9, 14 (and 19, 24, 29) Rikta and 8 and 23 Ashtami, and says no source book lists tithis to avoid. BPHS Ch. 89 Sl. 1-7 asks for a day without Rikta-Bhadra Dosha but does not say which tithis are Rikta. |
| Paksha | Shukla, the waxing Moon | BPHS Ch. 3 Sl. 11 and Saravali Ch. 4 Sl. 9 call the waning Moon a malefic; Saravali Ch. 4 Sl. 36 has benefics strong in the bright half. Reading that as good for a beginning is the engine's step. |
| Weekday | Monday, Tuesday, Thursday or Friday | The engine's list; no citation. |
| Rahu Kaal | The window does not overlap it | The engine's weekday table, after Drik Panchang as its comment records. No text in the library mentions Rahu Kaal. |
Two personal factors, the Moon's house from your ascendant (or Moon sign) and your Personal Day number, are added only in the calculator and the in-app feature; the engine's travel house list (3, 9, 10, 11) cites no book.
What the texts say about travel, and the junction check
No text in the library lists nakshatras, tithis or weekdays for a journey. It does hold rules for setting out, and the engine applies none of them. Saravali Ch. 3 Sl. 22 says a journey towards the direction of the rising sign, or of the Moon's sign, at its start yields fruitful results (it counts Aries east, Taurus south, Gemini west, Cancer north, and round again; Sl. 39 gives the Yavana school's variant, the direction ruled by the sign's lord). Daivajna Vallabha Ch. 15 Sl. 26-31 judges a journey by the ascendant at its start: the lord of its sign, its navamsa and its half-sign hora. These need the direction of travel, or a place and a minute, and the engine asks for neither. BPHS Ch. 11 puts a journey under the 3rd (Sl. 4) and travel under the 7th (Sl. 8). The engine's list has the 3rd and leaves the 7th out; the match is this page's observation, not a source the engine cites.
The junction rule is gandanta. BPHS Ch. 92 Sl. 1 reads birth, travel and auspicious functions such as marriage at a junction of tithis, nakshatras or lagnas as inauspicious; this site does not repeat the outcome it names. Sl. 2 puts the tithi junctions at the last two ghatikas of tithis 5, 10 and 15 and the first two of tithis 1, 6 and 11; this page reads those numbers within each half of the month (20, 25, 30 and 16, 21, 26 in the engine's 1-30 count). Sl. 3 puts the nakshatra junctions between Revati and Ashwini, Ashlesha and Magha, Jyeshtha and Mula. A ghati is 24 minutes (Ch. 5 Sl. 6-8), so two is 48. The engine tests none of this, though Ashwini and Revati are on its travel list.
On the engine's change times, three of the four passing windows keep one nakshatra and one tithi throughout and none overlaps a 48-minute span. Among the near misses, 9:15 AM on 18 January overlaps the last 48 minutes of Shukla 10 and the first 48 of Shukla 11 (9:41 to 11:17 AM). Two passing windows sit close to a change: 9:15 AM on 11 January (the tithi) and 3:30 PM on 22 January, which ends one minute before the last 48 minutes of Shukla 15 begin. A panchang computed for your city can place those changes some minutes differently, which is worth checking for a window this close. The Moon crosses the Jyeshtha-Mula junction at 03:09 IST on 6 January, and Sl. 5 names a wider span at this junction, Abhukta Mula (the last six ghatikas of Jyeshtha and the first eight of Mula); on 6 January that runs from about 00:45 to 06:21 IST. No listed window falls inside it.
Worked example: the same month ranked for one reference chart
With the two personal factors added, the engine ranks the month for a fixed reference chart (1985-01-01 06:00 IST, New Delhi, 28.6139 N, 77.2090 E). These five are that chart's alone.
| Score | Window (IST) | The engine's reasons, shortened | General rule missed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 90 | Friday 22 January, 6:40 AM | Punarvasu; Moon in 9th house; Shukla; Personal Day 9 | None |
| 88 | Friday 22 January, 3:30 PM | Pushya; Moon in 9th house; Shukla; Personal Day 9 | None |
| 83 | Sunday 10 January, 9:15 AM | Shravana; Moon in 3rd house; Shukla; Personal Day 6 | Weekday |
| 82 | Sunday 10 January, 6:40 AM | Same as the row above | Weekday |
| 81 | Saturday 9 January, 3:30 PM | Shravana; Moon in 3rd house; Shukla; Personal Day 5 | Weekday |
Two of the five pass every rule and lead; the three below miss only the weekday rule. All five have a listed house (the 9th or 3rd) and a supportive Personal Day, so the weekday separates them: Friday is listed, Saturday and Sunday are not. The other two passing windows, 11 and 15 January, rank outside the top eight: the Moon is in the 4th and 5th houses, off the travel list, and Personal Days 7 and 2 add no support.
Limits: what these windows cannot tell you
- They say nothing about weather, transport, health or safety on a journey, and a departure usually follows a timetable, not a 90-minute window.
- Windows are a sample: 8 of January's 93 change nakshatra or tithi inside their 90 minutes. Times are IST on a fixed 06:00 to 18:00 Rahu Kaal grid, so a sunrise-based panchang can differ; the panchang, Choghadiya and Rahu Kaal calculators cover the whole day or a place.
- No window, whether it passes every rule or not, is a promise about a journey. The Muhurat calculator takes your birth date, time, place and one activity and returns the top three windows of the 30 days from the day you use it. See also December 2026 and February 2027.
- Why look twice at 3:30 PM on 22 January?
- BPHS Ch. 92 Sl. 1 names travel among the acts it reads at a junction, and the last 48 minutes of Shukla 15 begin at 17:01 IST, one minute after the window ends.
- Why does 6:40 AM on 15 January pass but 9:15 AM does not?
- Friday's Rahu Kaal on the engine's grid is 10:30 to 12:00, which the 9:15 AM window overlaps.
- Does a window that passes every rule make a journey safe?
- No. It means five factors are on the favourable side of this app's lists, not a forecast.
- Is the window the time I book, leave or arrive?
- The texts above read a journey at its start, so leaving is the natural reading, but the calculator does not ask.
Muhurat Finder
Ninety windows over thirty days, scored against your chart. The best three come back.
What it needs
Date, time and place + What the muhurat is for
That is more than this article asks for - it only ever takes a date, and sometimes a time, and never a name or a birth place. So this one runs on its own page, which asks for exactly what it needs and stores none of it.
Run it on its own page