The first entry into a new house, the day the family moves in.
No day in October 2026 is a shubh day for griha pravesh. The lunar months up to and including 9 November 2026 are not ones this is done in. Shukra (Venus) is asta, too close to the Sun to be seen, up to and including 1 November 2026. The next shubh day is Wednesday, 11 November 2026, then Friday, 20 November 2026 and Wednesday, 25 November 2026. November 2026 has 1 more.
As most families keep it, a Ganesh puja and a Vastu puja come first; then the family enters with a kalash of water topped with mango leaves, the woman of the house stepping in right foot first. Milk is boiled until it rises over in the new kitchen as the first thing cooked, and many families sleep in the house that night. The entry is what the muhurat times.
Seasons this month:
The festival days, for this work:
Clock times are for New Delhi; they move with sunrise, by up to about an hour across India. The tithi and the nakshatra are the same everywhere. For your own city, use the griha pravesh muhurat finder.
These are the rules the standard panchangs apply for this work; they go back to the classical muhurat texts, Muhurta Chintamani above all.
Muhurta Chintamani sorts the 27 nakshatras by nature: fixed (dhruva), for what is meant to last; soft (mridu), for gentle things such as friendship and music. This work takes the fixed ones (Rohini, Uttara Phalguni, Uttara Ashadha, Uttara Bhadrapada) and the soft ones (Mrigashira, Chitra, Anuradha, Revati). It leaves out the rikta (“empty”) tithis, Chaturthi, Navami and Chaturdashi, which are kept clear of beginnings, and Amavasya, the dark night. Its table also leaves out Shukla Pratipada, Shashthi, Ashtami and Dwadashi, and Krishna Pratipada, Shashthi, Ashtami and Dwadashi, which it does not count among this work’s tithis. Sunday is Surya’s day and Tuesday is Mangal’s day, and Surya and Mangal are krura (harsh) grahas: those days are left out.
All the rules for griha pravesh: the months it is done in, the closed seasons and the hour
None, because the lunar months up to and including 9 November 2026 are not ones this is done in; and Shukra (Venus) is asta, too close to the Sun to be seen, up to and including 1 November 2026. The next shubh day is Wednesday, 11 November 2026.
Not by the panchang: not done on a Tuesday.
Of its 31 days, 23 fall in a lunar month it is not done in and 8 fall on a weekday it is not done on.
December 2026, with 5 days; November 2026 has 4.
A muhurat read off the panchang is the same for everybody in New Delhi. Read against your own kundli it can move, and for griha pravesh that is usually worth the ten minutes.
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