Choose your town or city and a year from 1900 to 2074 above, and this free tool lists every Guru Pushya and Ravi Pushya of that year. For each one you get the Hindu day it belongs to, the hours the Moon spends in Pushya on that day in your local time, how long that lasts, and the tithi running then. The next one to come is shown first.
How it works
Guru Pushya is a Thursday on which the Moon is in Pushya, the eighth of the 27 nakshatras, which runs from 93 degrees 20 minutes to 106 degrees 40 minutes of the sidereal zodiac, inside Karka (Cancer). Ravi Pushya is the same on a Sunday. The tool reads the Moon’s position from the NASA JPL DE440 tables on this site, in the sidereal zodiac with the Lahiri ayanamsa, finds the moments it enters and leaves Pushya, and keeps the part that falls inside a Thursday or a Sunday.
The weekday is the Hindu day, which runs from local sunrise to the next sunrise, as a panchang counts it. So a Moon that enters Pushya at one in the morning after a Thursday still makes a Guru Pushya, until Friday’s sunrise. Because sunrise and the clock differ from place to place, the hours, and sometimes the day, change with the city.
The Moon stays in one nakshatra for about a day, so a Pushya day can be anything from a few minutes to the whole day. At New Delhi from 1900 to 2074, a Guru Pushya lasted from 2 minutes to 24 hours, and only 24 of the 1,348 Guru and Ravi Pushya days in those years ran the whole day from sunrise to sunrise. Every one of those years had at least two of each: from 2 to 6 Guru Pushya days and from 2 to 6 Ravi Pushya days a year.
The reason these days are singled out comes from the Muhurta Chintamani of Ramacharya Daivajna. In its first chapter, the Shubhashubha prakarana, verses 28 and 29 list Pushya among the nakshatras that make Sarvartha Siddhi yoga on both a Sunday and a Thursday, and verses 20 to 22 give the Thursday and Pushya pair among the seven weekday and nakshatra pairs that the commentary calls Amrit Siddhi. The verse numbers are those of the Khemraj Shrikrishnadas edition with the Hindi commentary of Pandit Mahidhar Sharma.
Reading the result
The first line gives the count for the year and the next Pushya day from now. The table lists every one in date order. The first column is the Hindu day, named by its date and weekday, with Guru Pushya or Ravi Pushya below it. The next two columns give the time the Moon is in Pushya from and until. “Sunrise” means the window opens at that day’s sunrise, and “next sunrise” means it runs to the end of the Hindu day. A time with a date in brackets falls after midnight, still inside the same Hindu day.
The last column gives the tithi in force during the window. When Navami runs during a Guru Pushya, the row says so, because verse 21 of the same chapter sets the Thursday and Pushya pair aside on Navami. From 1900 to 2074 at New Delhi that happened on 82 Guru Pushya days.
Where traditions differ
We count the weekday from sunrise, as a panchang does. A calendar that counts each day from midnight would put a Pushya that begins at one in the morning on the next weekday, so a list made that way can differ from this one on such nights.
Buying gold or jewellery, opening account books and starting study on Guru Pushya are popular customs. The Muhurta Chintamani names the Pushya days among the yogas good for every undertaking, and in verse 22 it sets the Thursday and Pushya pair aside for marriage. Families follow their own custom for what they begin on these days, and a family priest can advise on a particular event.
How we checked it
We recomputed every window with the Swiss Ephemeris (pyswisseph, sidereal Lahiri) at the eight places of our test charts, for the year of each chart and for 2026, and also for 1900 and 2074 and for Tromso in the Arctic. All 169 windows matched; every start and end agreed within 10 seconds. We also compared the tool with the Guru Pushya and Ravi Pushya lists that a widely used published panchang prints for New Delhi for 2026: all 3 Guru Pushya and all 6 Ravi Pushya days matched, and every start and end fell in the same minute or one minute apart.
What it does not do
It does not judge whether a day suits your own chart or your purpose, and it does not check the rising sign, tarabala or chandrabala for you. For a full muhurat for an event, use the muhurat finder. For the other weekday yogas of the same text, use the Sarvartha Siddhi, Amrit Siddhi and Pushkar yoga dates. The nakshatra itself is described on the Pushya page, and the day’s full panchang is on the panchang for any place.
Frequently asked questions
↳ What is Guru Pushya yoga?
It is a Thursday, counted from sunrise to the next sunrise, on which the Moon is in Pushya nakshatra. The Muhurta Chintamani counts Pushya on a Thursday as Sarvartha Siddhi, and the Thursday and Pushya pair as one of the seven Amrit Siddhi pairs.
↳ When is Guru Pushya in 2027?
At New Delhi there are five: 18 February from 9:05 pm to 6:56 am the next morning; 18 March from 6:28 am to 3:21 am the next morning; 15 April from 5:56 am to 9:33 am; the Hindu Thursday of 18 November, from 1:52 am to 6:46 am on 19 November; and 16 December from 9:13 am to 7:07 am the next morning. Choose your own city above for its times.
↳ What is Ravi Pushya?
It is the same as Guru Pushya on a Sunday: the Moon in Pushya during a Hindu Sunday. The Muhurta Chintamani lists Pushya on a Sunday among the Sarvartha Siddhi yogas.
↳ Is Guru Pushya good for a wedding?
The Muhurta Chintamani, in verse 22 of its first chapter, sets the Thursday and Pushya pair aside for marriage, even though it counts the pair as good for other work. Pushya is also not among the nakshatras the muhurat finder on this site uses for a wedding. Ask your family priest for your own case.
↳ Why does a Guru Pushya sometimes begin late at night?
The Moon can enter Pushya at any hour. A Hindu Thursday lasts until Friday's sunrise, so if the Moon enters Pushya at night, the Guru Pushya runs from that moment to sunrise, and the date in brackets shows that the clock has passed midnight.
↳ How many Guru Pushya days are there in a year?
At New Delhi from 1900 to 2074, between 2 and 6 a year, and the same for Ravi Pushya. In 2026 there are 3 Guru Pushya and 6 Ravi Pushya days there.
↳ Is Guru Pushya on the same date everywhere?
The Moon enters Pushya at the same moment worldwide, but sunrise and the clock differ, so the hours and sometimes the Hindu day change with the place. Choose your own town for the right local times.