When is Vivah Panchami 2026?

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Timings on this page are computed for Jaipur.

The whole table below is recomputed for the city you pick. That is not cosmetic: an observance decided at moonrise, such as Karwa Chauth, can genuinely fall on a different day in two cities, and the moment the fast ends differs by more than an hour across India.

Computed for Jaipur

The date in Jaipur

Monday, 14 December 2026

Vivah Panchami is not a Gregorian date. It is Shukla paksha tithi 5 of Margashirsha in the amanta reckoning, and the Gregorian day it lands on moves by up to a month between years because twelve lunations fall about eleven days short of a solar year.

Tithi

Panchami, Shukla paksha

Lunar month

Margashirsha (amanta)

Tithi begins

13 Dec, 16:48

Tithi ends

14 Dec, 19:16

Decided at

Sunrise

Sunrise in Jaipur

14 Dec, 07:07

Sunrise in Jaipur falls at 07:07 on that day, and that is the instant the tithi has to be running at for the day to carry the observance. It is computed for this city rather than assumed, because it is what decides the date.

The two instants above are the astronomy and are not in dispute. The day is an interpretation of them: this observance is decided at sunrise, so it belongs to the day whose sunrise the tithi carries — not simply to the day the tithi begins.

Meaning and observance

What is Vivah Panchami?

Vivah Panchami is the anniversary of the wedding of Rama and Sita, kept on Margashirsha Shukla Panchami. It is celebrated most of all in Janakpur, Sita's birthplace in Nepal, and in Ayodhya, with processions and re-enactments of the wedding.

• The date is the day whose sunrise carries Panchami, which gives Drik Panchang's date in every year from 2016 to 2029.
• Readings of the Ramcharitmanas wedding episode and kirtans are common in homes and temples.
• In parts of Mithila families avoid fixing their own weddings on this day, remembering the exile that followed Rama and Sita's; others hold it especially auspicious. Both are local customs, and a family's own priest is the one to ask.

Muhurat · Jaipur

Vivah Panchami muhurat

Vivah Panchami is decided at sunrise, which is an instant rather than a window, so there is no anchor window to intersect with the tithi. The generally auspicious windows of the day are below, and Abhijit is the one most commonly used where an observance names no muhurat of its own.

Auspicious windows that day

Windows usually worked around

These are the spans classical muhurta sets aside for beginnings. They are descriptions of a convention, not warnings: the observance is kept on its day regardless, and nothing here needs to be bought, corrected or remedied.

Every window above is computed for Jaipur on Monday, 14 December 2026, from that day's sunrise, sunset and the following sunrise. The Vedic day runs sunrise to sunrise, so a window whose clock time falls after midnight still belongs to the date named above rather than to the one the wall clock has turned over to.

• Choghadiya windows for today
• Rahu Kaal for your city
• Hora — the planetary hours

Vivah Panchami across five years

Two years back, this year, and two ahead. Past years are kept rather than dropped so you can check the engine against a calendar you already have.

Every row is computed for Jaipur from the same ephemeris, not looked up. Sunrise decides which day a tithi names, and sunrise differs across India by more than an hour, so a date computed for Delhi can be a day out elsewhere.

Why calendars disagree about this date

There is no single authority that settles a Hindu festival date, and the divergence is genuine rather than sloppy. Three causes account for almost all of it.

1. A tithi rarely starts at sunrise. One that is running at the deciding moment on two days — or on none — is claimed by both days under different rules.
2. Month reckoning. North India runs purnimanta, the south and west amanta. The same dark fortnight carries different month names in the two, so an observance defined as "krishna X of month Y" can land a full lunation apart.
3. Which moment decides. Most vratas belong to the day whose sunrise carries the tithi, but not all: this one is decided at sunrise. Almanacs that apply the sunrise rule to everything move several festivals by a day.

So this page shows its working. If your pandit or your family almanac gives a different day, the instants above will usually show you exactly why — and that is more useful than a date asserted without one.

Related timing

• The full vrat and tyohar calendar
• Panchang for your city — tithi, nakshatra, yoga, karana
• Choghadiya windows for the day
• Free kundli — see what this period touches in your own chart