Mundan Muhurat 2027: Chudakarana Dates Meeting the Conditions

February 2027 (4 dates)

March 2027 (1 date)

April 2027 (1 date)

May 2027 (5 dates)

June 2027 (4 dates)

July 2027 (1 date)

What mundan is and when it is done

Chudakarana is the eighth of the sixteen samskaras. The hair a child is born with is removed, often leaving a small tuft (shikha) at the crown, and the shaving is accompanied by prayers for long life and health. The Grihya Sutras place it in the first or third year, and many families follow the custom of an odd year — the first, third or fifth — counted from birth.

Many families hold mundan at a temple, a river bank or a place of pilgrimage tied to the family deity, and offer the hair there. Wherever it is held, the date is chosen by muhurta, and since there is no fixed day to keep, the texts apply nearly all the seasonal restrictions used for a wedding.

Nakshatras used for the first haircut

Twelve nakshatras are accepted: Ashwini, Mrigashira, Punarvasu, Pushya, Hasta, Chitra, Swati, Jyeshtha, Shravana, Dhanishtha, Shatabhisha and Revati. The list is noticeably different from the one for marriage. It leans on the movable and light stars, includes Jyeshtha, and leaves out the fixed group — Rohini and the three Uttaras — that suits undertakings meant to stay unchanged; hair, after all, grows back.

A nakshatra rarely covers a whole civil date, so the table gives for each date the hours of daylight in which the listed nakshatra and an accepted tithi coincide. Dates where they meet only at night, or only for a few minutes, are not listed.

Tithis and weekdays

The tithis accepted are Dwitiya, Tritiya, Panchami, Saptami, Dashami, Ekadashi and Trayodashi in the bright fortnight, and Dwitiya, Tritiya, Panchami, Saptami and Dashami in the dark fortnight. Excluded are the Rikta tithis (Chaturthi, Navami, Chaturdashi), Pratipada, Shashthi, Ashtami, Dwadashi, Purnima and Amavasya, and the last days of the waning Moon.

Only Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday are used. Tuesday and Saturday, the days of Mars and Saturn, are avoided for any operation with a blade on a child, and Sunday is left out in the reading followed here.

Seasons and planets that close the calendar

Mundan is a mangal karya, an auspicious household undertaking, and the same pauses apply to it as to a wedding. Kharmas — the Sun in Sagittarius from mid-December to mid-January and in Pisces from mid-March to mid-April — is excluded. So is Chaturmas, from Devshayani Ekadashi to Dev Uthani Ekadashi, which also takes in Pitru Paksha.

Jupiter and Venus must both be visible: while either is combust (guru asta or shukra asta) no date is listed. Holashtak, the eight days before Holi, and an intercalary month (adhik maas) are excluded too. Because these periods add up to a large part of the year, 2027 has far fewer mundan dates than dates for buying a vehicle or naming a child, and some months have none.

Family customs and personal checks

Several customs sit alongside the calendar. Many traditions avoid mundan while the child’s mother is in the later months of a new pregnancy, and some families keep to the deity, place or month their elders used. The child’s own chart can be consulted as well: a priest may check the Moon’s strength from the child’s Moon sign and choose a rising sign for the hour.

These considerations differ from family to family, so they are not built into the list. Read it as the set of days on which the calendar conditions are met, and let family custom choose among them.

How the dates were computed

The calculation is done for New Delhi with each panchang day running from sunrise to sunrise. Because tithis and nakshatras end at precise moments, the qualifying hours on a date shift slightly from city to city, and the shortest windows may disappear altogether far from Delhi.

Each date shown also appears in a published panchang’s list for New Delhi. A day that meets the conditions here but is missing from that list, usually because it applies a different lagna or yoga test, is left out, so the table favours a shorter list of well-supported dates.