How do I find when the Sun next enters a specific sign?

Choose “Sign (Rashi)” as the search type, pick the target sign from the dropdown, set a date range up to 365 days, and submit. The tool returns the Sankranti moment (entry) and exit for every occurrence in the range. Because the Sun does not retrograde, each sign appears at most once per year.

How long is a Sun-in-nakshatra window?

About 13.3 days each. Switch the search type to Nakshatra to pick from all 27. Because the Sun moves ~1° per day and a nakshatra spans 13°20′, each nakshatra visit is roughly two weeks long.

How wide should my Sun transit search be?

365 days from the start date. This covers one full solar year and captures every Sankranti and Sun nakshatra change exactly once. For multi-year lookups, run separate searches or use the Ravi Peyarchi Year Timeline.

How do I find historical Sankranti dates?

Set the From date to the year you want to check and the To date up to a year later. The tool computes every Sankranti in that range via Swiss Ephemeris DE431, which covers -13,201 BCE to 17,191 CE.

Why do Sankranti dates vary from year to year?

A tropical year (~365.25 days) is slightly shorter than the sidereal year (~365.256 days) the Sankranti dates track. Combined with leap-year corrections in the Gregorian calendar, each Sankranti drifts by a few hours year-to-year, so Makara Sankranti falls on Jan 14 in most years but occasionally Jan 15.

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Note: All calculations use Lahiri Ayanamsa (sidereal) and Swiss Ephemeris for high precision. The Sun stays ~30 days in each sign and ~13.3 days in each nakshatra, so a one-year search returns at most 12 sign hits or 27 nakshatra hits. Search range is capped at 365 days.

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About Finding Sun Transit Dates

Find every date the Sun visits your target

Pick a Rashi (zodiac sign) or a Nakshatra, then a date range up to 365 days. The tool returns every window in that range during which the Sun occupies your target — entry moment, exit moment, and duration in your local timezone. Because the Sun doesn't retrograde, each sign appears at most once and each nakshatra at most once per year in the results.

Rashi searches — what a Sun-in-sign window is used for

Sankranti planning — every sign entry is a Sankranti. Sun-in-Capricorn returns Makara Sankranti (Jan 14/15, marks Uttarayana and the harvest-donation festival window). Sun-in-Aries returns Mesha Sankranti (Apr 13/14, solar new year for Tamil, Bengali, Punjabi, and Assamese calendars).
Own-sign muhurta — search for Sun in Leo (its own rashi, Simha) to find the ~30-day window classically favoured for leadership decisions, royal muhurta, and high-visibility launches.
Avoiding debilitation — search for Sun in Libra to identify the ~30-day debilitation window; useful if you're timing an event and want to know which weeks to skip for Sun-signified matters (leadership, government, public role).
Personal-chart transits — search your natal Sun sign to find when this year's solar return falls, or a friend's Sun sign for gifting/personal muhurta timing.

Nakshatra searches — finer-grained solar timing

The Sun spends about 13.3 days in each of the 27 nakshatras. Nakshatra-level searches are used for muhurta selection that's more precise than sign-level, especially for the three Sun-owned nakshatras — Krittika, Uttara-Phalguni, and Uttara-Ashadha. These are considered favourable when solar significations (authority, visibility, leadership) matter most. Searching for any of the 27 gives you every ~2-week Sun-in-nakshatra window across your date range.

Historical Sun transit lookups

Set the From date to any past year and the To date up to 365 days later to find every Sun-in-target window in that range. The tool uses Swiss Ephemeris DE431, which covers -13,201 BCE through 17,191 CE. Useful for verifying birth-chart Sankranti timing (Panchang publications occasionally differ by a few hours), researching ancestral dates, or checking historical festival timings.

Related Sun tools

For the Sun's live position, use the Live Tracker. For a specific date's Sun readout, use Date Lookup. To page through every Sankranti at once as a calendar, use Ravi Peyarchi 2026.