Wedding Dates November December 2026: All 11 Muhurats Left This Year

If you want a Hindu wedding before 2026 ends, you have 11 dates to choose from: 21, 24, 25 and 26 November, and 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 11 and 12 December. That’s the whole list. After 12 December, Kharmas begins, and the next window doesn’t open until mid-January 2027.

Below you’ll find each date with its day and nakshatra, why the season is so short this year, and a week-by-week invitation plan if your wedding falls on one of these dates.

The complete list of wedding dates in November and December 2026

Timings are based on Delhi. Your city’s exact window can shift by several minutes.

Not every panchang agrees

Some calendars add 1 and 13 December. Others drop 5 and 6 December. Regional traditions also calculate muhurtham in their own way, so a Tamil, Telugu, Kannada or Bengali family may get a slightly different list from their purohit. Treat the table above as your shortlist. The final date should come from your family pandit after he checks both kundlis.

Why are there so few dates this year?

There are three reasons, and they stack on top of each other.

Chaturmas ran late. Hindu weddings pause for the four months of Chaturmas, when Lord Vishnu is believed to be in yog nidra. That pause ends on Devuthani (Prabodhini) Ekadashi, which falls on 20 November this year. A few calendars mark it on the 19th. Tulsi Vivah follows on 21 November, and that’s also the first wedding date.

2026 had an extra month. This year included an Adhik Maas in summer, which pushed the whole festival calendar later. That’s why Diwali falls on 8 November instead of in October, and why the wedding season opens almost three weeks later than it did last year.

Kharmas starts on 16 December. When the Sun enters Dhanu rashi, marriages pause again until around Makar Sankranti. That leaves roughly three and a half weeks for the entire winter season.

If you’ve been worried about Shukra Asta (19–29 October), you can relax. It falls entirely inside Chaturmas, so it doesn’t take away a single date.

What a short season means for your planning

Eleven dates spread across millions of weddings means every date is crowded. Hotels in Delhi NCR, Jaipur and Udaipur are already reporting that November is close to sold out.

A few practical consequences:

• Weekend dates are the hardest to get. Only four muhurats fall on a weekend: Saturday 21 November, Saturday 5 December, Sunday 6 December and Saturday 12 December. Expect venues, decorators and bands to charge a premium for these.
• Your pandit may have three weddings that night. On a date like 25 November, popular pandits often stack ceremonies. Get the exact phera time confirmed in writing, not just “evening.”
• Weekday weddings need earlier invites. If your wedding is on a Tuesday or Wednesday, office-going guests need time to apply for leave. A card that arrives ten days before won’t give them that.
• Baraat traffic is real. On the Saturday muhurats in big cities, roads near banquet halls jam from about 7 pm. Add an hour of buffer to your baraat timing.

Your invitation timeline (starting this week)

It’s late October now, so a 21 or 24 November wedding is less than a month away. Here’s a realistic sequence. If your date is in December, push each step back by one to two weeks.

1. This week: send the digital invite or save-the-date to outstation guests. Do this before Diwali. Families lock in Diwali travel in the next few days, and many will try to combine it with your wedding if they know in time.
2. By 31 October: place your printed card order. Printers are at full capacity in peak season and usually need 10–15 days, sometimes more for laser-cut or boxed cards. A mid-range printed card with an envelope typically costs ₹40–₹150 each. Boxed cards with mithai start at around ₹500.
3. Three weeks before: deliver cards to elders in person. The first card usually goes to Ganesh ji or your kuldevta. After that, grandparents and close relatives expect a personal visit, not a WhatsApp forward.
4. Two weeks before: follow up on RSVPs. Most caterers want a final headcount 7–10 days before the event. Call the guests who haven’t replied rather than guessing.
5. Three or four days before: send a WhatsApp reminder. Include the venue’s location pin and parking details.

A safety note: always share your invite as an image, a PDF, a video or a web link. Never send it as an app file. Fake “wedding invitation” APK files have been circulating on WhatsApp this season and emptying people’s bank accounts. Your older relatives will be more careful about opening a legitimate invite if you tell them what format to expect.

How to write the date when the muhurat crosses midnight

This catches a lot of families out. On 24 November, the muhurat begins around 11:25 pm, so the pheras technically happen on the 25th. Print only “24 November” and some guests will turn up a day late. Print “25 November” and others will miss the baraat.

Write both dates. Here’s wording you can copy:

English
Shubh Vivah
Tuesday, 24 November 2026
Baraat arrival: 8:30 pm
Pheras: after 11:30 pm (night of 24–25 November)

हिंदी
शुभ विवाह
मंगलवार, 24 नवंबर 2026
बारात आगमन: रात 8:30 बजे
फेरे: रात 11:30 बजे के बाद (24–25 नवंबर की रात)

The same applies to 2 December and 5 December, whose windows also run past midnight.

Pandits sometimes shift the phera time by an hour once the final kundli calculation is done. A printed card can’t change, but a link-based digital invitation can. If you use one, whether from Eventic or another platform, any correction shows up on the same link guests already have. You won’t need to send a second message saying “please note the new time.”

Here’s a short reminder message for the week of the wedding:

Namaste 🙏 Just a reminder that [Name] and [Name]'s wedding is this Tuesday, 24 November. The baraat arrives at 8:30 pm, and the pheras begin after 11:30 pm. Venue location: [link]. We look forward to seeing you!

Missed the 2026 window? Look at January and February 2027

If none of these 11 dates work, the next season opens after Makar Sankranti. Delhi panchangs show about 9 muhurats in January 2027 and 13 in February 2027. February is usually the busiest month of the year.

Hotels are already taking February 2027 bookings, so don’t treat it as the relaxed option. If you’re moving to 2027, lock the venue first and send a save-the-date as soon as the date is final.

One last tip: if you’re choosing between dates, choose the one your must-have guests can attend, not the one with the prettiest muhurat window. Your pandit can make almost any of these 11 dates work. Your nani’s train ticket is a different matter.