Find Rahu Transit Dates
☊Pick a Rashi or Nakshatra + date range (up to 730 days) — get every Rahu visit window with entry, exit, and duration.
Find Rahu Transit Dates
Max range: 730 days
No transits found for the selected criteria.
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Note: All calculations use Lahiri Ayanamsa (sidereal) and Swiss Ephemeris for high precision, using the true node rather than the mean node. Times are displayed in your local timezone. Rahu and Ketu sit exactly 180° apart at every instant and move backwards continuously at about 0.05° per day, taking roughly 18 months to cross a sign and around seven months to cross a Nakshatra. They are permanently retrograde and are never combust, so no motion or combustion state is shown. Search range is capped at 730 days, which comfortably spans a full axis shift.
About Finding Rahu Transit Dates
Find when Rahu was in a sign or nakshatra
This is the reverse lookup: choose a target sign or nakshatra and a date range, and get every window in which Rahu occupied it, with exact entry and exit times.
Because the axis is locked at 180° in sign terms, a search for Rahu in a given sign simultaneously tells you when Ketu was in the sign opposite — Rahu in Taurus means Ketu in Scorpio for exactly the same window. Nakshatras do not mirror the same way, since 27 nakshatras is an odd number and 180° spans 13.5 of them; to search Ketu's own nakshatra windows, use the dedicated Find Ketu Transit Dates tool.
What the results show
Each result gives the entry and exit moment computed to the second from the Swiss Ephemeris, plus the duration. Rahu visits are long — roughly 18 months per sign and about seven months per nakshatra — so a search across a few years typically returns a small number of wide windows rather than many short ones.
Rahu in 2026 — searching a whole year
Year-qualified searches such as "Rahu in Ardra 2026 dates" or "when is Rahu in Swati this year" are answered by setting the From and To fields above to the stretch of 2026 you care about. Rahu moves slowly — roughly 18 months per sign — so a single year usually holds only one or two sign changes and three or four nakshatra changes.
For the full year in one view, the Rahu Peyarchi 2026 timeline lays out every sign and nakshatra visit for 2026 on a single page, with entry and exit times and dignity windows marked.
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