Should I Marry This Person, or Wait?

You have a name and you have a date. Someone has handed you a number out of 36, possibly a warning about Mars, and possibly an opinion about the month. The three of them do not agree, which is why you are reading this instead of getting on with it.

They do not agree because they are not measuring the same thing. The number out of 36 compares two Moons. The Mars warning describes one house placement in each chart taken separately. The opinion about the month comes from a third system that ignores both. Across 20,000 couples computed for this page, the three tests have essentially no relationship to each other: the correlation between the 36-point total and the Mars verdict is 0.0001, and between the total and whether both partners' marriage periods are running it is minus 0.0159. Only 8.1 per cent of those couples passed all three tests, and only 6.7 per cent failed all three. The remaining 85.2 per cent got a split verdict.

So a split verdict is the normal case rather than a sign that something is wrong with your match. Summing the three readings into one impression is what leaves people stuck, because two of them can be safely overruled and one of them cannot. The order they belong in, and what each is worth on its own, comes out of the base rates below.

The two halves of your question, and why the tests do not divide along them

"Should I marry this person" and "or wait" are separate questions with separate evidence.

The person half is answered by comparison: the 36-point Ashtakoota score, which is a set of eight named checks run between the two charts, and the Manglik check, which reads where Mars stands in each chart. Neither of these two moves with time. Run them today or in four years and you get the same answer.

The timing half is answered by each person's own running period and by the calendar. The period comes from the Vimshottari dasha, which is the 120-year cycle of planetary chapters counted from the Moon's exact position at birth, and a dasha is one of those chapters, meaning a span of years ruled by a single planet. The calendar comes from muhurta, which is the branch that grades individual days for a particular act. Both of these move, and they are the only part of the reading that can make waiting the right answer.

Families and matchmakers usually run the first half hard and the second half loosely, which is backwards. The first half does not expire. The second half does, and a period that closes in eighteen months is a real cost that no score compensates for.

What the 36-point score actually measures

Ashtakoota Guna Milan, meaning the eight-fold matching that produces the number out of 36, is eight comparisons between the two people's Moons. Not the whole chart: the Moon's sign and the Moon's nakshatra, which is one of the 27 star-segments of 13 degrees 20 minutes each that the zodiac is divided into. Each of the eight comparisons carries a fixed maximum and they sum to 36.

Two things in that table decide almost everything you will be told about your match.

The first is that three checks carry 84.2 per cent of the variation in the total. Nadi, Bhakoot and Gana between them are the score. The four checks people imagine the number is about, the ones that sound like temperament and physical fit, carry 4.8 per cent between them. Varna moves the total by at most one point and Yoni is close to a constant in practice, because the calculation collapses every animal pairing that is neither identical nor a classical enemy to a flat 2 out of 4. Yoni reaches full marks in 3.5 per cent of couples.

The second is that Nadi and Bhakoot are switches rather than dials. Nadi is 8 or 0 with nothing in between, and it comes out 0 for 33.1 per cent of couples. Bhakoot is 7 or 0, and it comes out 0 for 26.3 per cent. So 15 of the 36 points turn on two yes-or-no comparisons of birth stars, and 7.7 per cent of all couples lose both at once, which caps them at 21 before any other check has been run.

So what is a good score?

Here is the part no matching report tells you. Over 100,000 randomly paired people, computed with the same calculation your report used:

The median random pairing scores 23.5. Three quarters of all strangers clear the famous 18-point line. One in three strangers is graded "Excellent Match". If you were handed 24 and told it was a good match, you were told something true about the label and nothing at all about the person, because 24 is roughly what two names pulled out of a hat produce.

That is not an argument against the score. It is an argument about which end of it carries information. The bottom end does. Only 11.8 per cent of couples fall below 14, and 3.0 per cent land in "Not Recommended". A score of 9 is genuinely unusual and is telling you that several of the heavy checks failed together. A score of 24 is telling you nothing, and a score of 31 puts you in the top 8 per cent, which is worth knowing and is still not a reason to marry someone.

The existing note on the minimum gunas for marriage says that plenty of long marriages sit in the 18 to 24 band. These figures say why that has to be true: that band is where most of the human race lands.

Which check failed, and does it matter?

Because Nadi decides so much of the total, it is worth separating. Of the couples who score 0 on Nadi, the median total is 17.5 and 47.9 per cent clear 18. Of the couples who score the full 8, the median is 25.5 and 90.5 per cent clear 18. One comparison of two birth stars is close to the whole pass-or-fail question.

Nadi compares the constitutional group each birth star belongs to, and each of the 27 stars is assigned to one of three groups. Same group scores 0 and different groups score 8. The classical concern attached to a same-group match is about children rather than about compatibility between the two adults, which is a different worry from the one most families have when they see the number drop. The detail is in Nadi Koota and Nadi dosha in matching, and the same separation applies to Bhakoot and Gana.

The practical point is that "we only got 16" is not a finding. "We only got 16 because our birth stars share a Nadi group and our Moon signs are six apart" is a finding, because you can then ask whether either of those two things bears on what you are actually worried about.

The score you were given may not be your score

One person on this page wrote to us about a husband whose birth details they had as "DOB 4 aug 1992 birth place pune maharashtra time I dnt know". That is the ordinary case in an arranged match. The other family gives a date and a place, and the clock time is a guess or is missing.

This matters more than it looks, because all eight checks are built on the Moon and on nothing else, and the Moon moves about 13 degrees a day. Four of them read its nakshatra, three read its sign, and the eighth reads the ruler of that sign, so a clock time that moves the Moon moves every one of them. Sweeping one partner's clock time across the 24 hours of their birth date, over 3,000 couples:

With no time at all, the Moon's nakshatra changes somewhere in the day for 93.6 per cent of charts and the Moon's sign changes for 42.7 per cent. The swing in the total reaches 10 points or more for 21.4 per cent of couples and 28 points at the extreme. The Manglik verdict for that person flips somewhere in the same day 68.1 per cent of the time.

Most tools quietly fill an unknown birth time with noon. Measured against the true time, noon returns the exact score 69.2 per cent of the time, puts you in the wrong verdict band 22.3 per cent of the time, and puts you on the wrong side of 18 in 9.3 per cent of cases. So a noon default is right about two times in three and confidently wrong about one time in five.

The useful half of that table is the bottom row. You do not need the minute. A birth time known to within half an hour leaves the score untouched for 95 per cent of couples, and even a two-hour bracket leaves it untouched for 78 per cent. Asking the other family to narrow "sometime in the morning" to "between seven and eight" is a fifteen-minute phone call that removes almost all of the uncertainty.

If the time genuinely cannot be recovered, the honest reading is a range rather than a number, and the decision then rests on the other two tests. That is also the argument in kundli matching without a birth time. You can run both versions yourself on the free compatibility tool.

The Manglik warning and what it decides

Mangal Dosha, also called Manglik or Kuja Dosha, is the reading that says Mars is badly placed for marriage. In the form used here, it fires when Mars sits in the 1st, 4th, 7th, 8th or 12th house counted from the Lagna, which is the sign that was rising on the eastern horizon at the exact minute and place of birth, or from the Moon.

That is five houses out of twelve, checked from two reference points. So it fires often. Over the 200,000 individual charts in the 100,000-couple study, 65.7 per cent came back Manglik. Of those, 22.6 per cent are cancelled outright by the classical rules, which leaves 50.9 per cent of everybody carrying a live dosha. The published study of how common Mangal Dosha is reaches the same conclusion from a wider house set, and the two numbers differ only because that study counts the 2nd house, which belongs to the South Indian version of the rule.

Cancellation is the part that usually goes missing. A dosha is treated as nullified when Mars is in its own sign, meaning Aries or Scorpio, which Mars rules, or exalted in Capricorn, meaning the sign where Mars is at its strongest. It is also nullified when two or more of the softer factors stack: Jupiter aspecting Mars, or Venus sitting in the same sign as Mars. A chart can be Manglik and cancelled at the same time, and 14.8 per cent of all charts are exactly that. A report that prints "Manglik: yes" without printing the severity has thrown away the answer.

The one-sided case, which is the one that frightens people

Somebody asked our chart chat: "Is there chance of divorce because Aman preet is manglik and Harsh mandeep is non-Manglik". That pairing is the case the tradition worries about, and here is how often it occurs.

A third of all couples get the Caution verdict, along with the traditional prescription of Kumbh Vivah, which is a symbolic marriage performed before the wedding. If the warning applies to one couple in three, it is a base rate, not a diagnosis, and the useful question is which one of the three you are.

The severity matters more than the flag. Mars in the 7th or 8th house from the Lagna or Moon is graded High, which is 23.0 per cent of people. Mars in the 1st, 4th or 12th is Medium, which is 27.7 per cent. A High-severity dosha on one side against a completely clean chart on the other is a real asymmetry worth taking to an astrologer. A Medium one against a cancelled one is the same verdict label sitting on top of a much smaller finding.

And the Manglik reading tells you nothing about the score. Across the 20,000 cross-tested couples, the share clearing 18 gunas was 76.2 per cent among the No Issue couples, 76.5 per cent among the Caution couples and 75.8 per cent among the Compatible ones. Three identical numbers. The two tests are independent, so neither one can reassure you about the other. Check your own placement on the free Mangal Dosha tool, and the rule itself is set out in What is Mangal Dosha and Mangal Dosha in matching.

"Or wait" is a different question with a real answer

The timing half moves, so it is the half where waiting can change the answer.

The tradition holds that a marriage happens during the period of a planet that carries the 7th house, which is the house of the spouse and of partnership, counted whole-sign from the Lagna. Seven roles qualify a planet to carry it: lord of the 7th, a planet sitting inside the 7th, Venus as the karaka of marriage, meaning the planet that stands for marriage in every chart whatever else that chart does, lord of the 2nd house of family, lord of the 11th house of fulfilled wishes, the Darakaraka, and the lord of the Navamsa ascendant.

The Darakaraka is a second kind of significator taken from degrees rather than houses: it is the planet holding the lowest degree within its own sign across the seven moving planets, and the Jaimini branch of the tradition reads it as the significator of the spouse. The Navamsa is the ninth divisional chart, meaning a second chart built by cutting every sign into nine parts, and it is the chart the tradition assigns to marriage.

Each running period is a mahadasha, meaning the major chapter, with an antardasha inside it, meaning the sub-period. A window scores on how many of those seven roles its two ruling planets hold, out of 100, measured against a fixed reference rather than against your own best window, so a chart with a weak marriage axis reads as weak instead of being flattered up to 100.

How often are both charts open at once?

The share of couples whose two marriage windows stand open in the same month is the number that answers your question, and it is not comfortable. Over 25,000 couples, sampling each of the 84 months from September 2026 to August 2033, counting a chart as open when its running window scores 55 or more:

Nearly half of all couples are in the position where one chart says go and the other says not yet. That is what "should I wait" feels like from the inside, and it is the single commonest situation.

For the couples who do get a joint opening, the median wait is 21 months from now. A quarter of all couples get one inside 12 months and 36.5 per cent inside 24 months. And 30.9 per cent never get one at all inside seven years, which is a finding rather than a failure, and is dealt with below.

When a joint window does arrive, it is not a single day. The first joint opening runs a median of 12 months, with a quarter running 6 months or less and a quarter running 21 months or more. So the choice is rarely between one weekend and never. It is usually between a mediocre season now and a better season inside two years.

Does waiting actually improve anything?

For most couples, yes, and this can be measured. Taking the best joint window score available in the next 12 months against the best available in the next 84 months, the median rises from 39 to 65, and 72.5 per cent of couples do better by waiting. The remaining 27.5 per cent are already at their joint peak, and for them waiting costs something with no offsetting gain.

That last group is the one nobody tells about. If your best joint month in seven years is the one you are currently in, the traditional reading is that this is the window, and postponing for a better score means postponing past it.

What if there is no joint window at all?

For the 30.9 per cent with no overlap in seven years, the joint window is simply not the deciding instrument, and there are two different reasons it can be missing.

One is that a particular chart has no strong window in that stretch. Across the 50,000 individuals in this study, the typical person's marriage windows are open for 40 per cent of the 84 months, but 9.2 per cent of people have no window scoring 55 or above at all in seven years. That is a property of one chart, not of the pairing, and it does not change if that person waits for a different partner.

The other is that the two people's cycles are out of phase. Both charts have good windows and they never coincide. In that case the classical reading falls back on whose window is stronger and on the structure of both charts, which is the next section.

The dates for your own chart are in When Will I Get Married and the meeting-versus-marrying distinction is separated out in When Will I Meet the Person I Marry. You can see your own period ladder on the free dasha calculator.

Structure: the reading that has no date on it

A period is permission and a structure is capacity. Structure does not tell you when anything happens. It tells you what a good period is worth when one arrives, and it is what the tradition falls back on when the timing is ambiguous.

The reading is built from the 7th house, the planet that rules it, whatever sits inside it, and the condition each of them is in. Condition here means dignity, which is the strength a planet has by virtue of the sign it occupies: exalted at its strongest, own sign next, debilitated at its weakest, neutral in between. Across 50,000 charts:

Two thirds of everyone has a 7th lord in a neutral sign, so a neutral 7th lord is not a finding either way. A debilitated one, which one person in eleven has, is a real weakness on the marriage axis and is the first thing worth working on. The resulting structure score runs a median of 52 out of 100 across the population, with the middle half between 43 and 61.

The Navamsa is where the tradition checks whether the birth chart's promise holds. A planet that occupies the same sign in both charts is called vargottama, meaning gone to the best division, and it is the strongest confirmation the Navamsa can give. Only 10.6 per cent of charts have a vargottama 7th lord, so it is worth checking and worth being pleased about if you have it. The Navamsa is explained in the D9 chart.

One honest limit. Each partner's Navamsa is read separately here, because there is no two-chart Navamsa comparison in this reading. The 36-point score already runs on the birth-chart Moon, and the Navamsa layer is a per-chart depth check on each side rather than a synastry between the two. Anyone who offers you a "D9 matching percentage" is doing something the classical sources do not describe.

The wedding date, which is the only reading with a hard block in it

The third instrument grades individual days. A muhurta is an elected time for a specific act, and the wedding rules are the most restrictive set in the tradition because a wedding is timed for permanence.

The grading runs over six calendar factors: the nakshatra the Moon occupies, the tithi, which is one of the 30 lunar days measured by the angle between Sun and Moon, whether the Moon is waxing or waning, the weekday, the yoga, which is a 27-fold division derived from the Sun and Moon added together, and the karana, which is the half-tithi. Two personal factors are added when both birth charts are known: Tara Bala, meaning the strength of the day's star counted from your own birth star, and Chandra Bala, meaning the position of the day's Moon relative to your natal Moon.

Scanning all 365 days from 1 September 2026 to 31 August 2027 at Delhi:

Those 137 good-or-better days are spread through every month of the year, with between 9 and 13 in each. The ten highest-scoring days of the year are 21 September 2026, then 15 and 20 January, 11 February, 10, 11 and 15 March, 17 May, and 4 and 6 August 2027.

Then the two charts cut it down

Personalising all 137 days against both partners' birth stars and natal Moons, over 2,000 couples, leaves a median of 96 days that are good for both, with the middle half between 93 and 102 and the worst-served couple in the sample left with 79. Of the 57 excellent days, a median of 45 survive both charts. Roughly 70 per cent of the general shortlist gets through, and the median couple loses 22 days a year to Chandrashtama, meaning the day's Moon standing in the 8th sign from one partner's natal Moon.

So the personal filter is real but it is not the constraint families fear. Nobody in that sample of 2,000 couples was left with fewer than 79 workable days in a year. If you are being told there is one auspicious date and it happens to be next month, ask which factor rules out the other ninety.

The hard block: Guru asta and Shukra asta

There is one restriction that the day-by-day score does not carry and that a traditional pandit will apply first. When Jupiter or Venus is combust, meaning too close to the Sun to be visible and therefore treated as switched off, weddings are not performed. The classical term is asta, meaning set. Jupiter is combust within 11 degrees of the Sun and Venus within 10, and both windows can be dated exactly:

The two overlap in late 2027, so 17 August to 14 September 2027 is closed on both counts. Twenty-eight of the 137 wedding-grade days in the September 2026 to August 2027 year fall inside one of these windows, including two of the ten best-scored days of the whole year: 4 and 6 August 2027 both sit inside the long Venus window. A day can score 97 out of 100 on every calendar factor and still be refused, so this is worth checking separately before you book anything.

The month-by-month wedding dates are in marriage muhurat 2026 and marriage muhurat 2027, the star-by-star preferences in best nakshatras for marriage, and the other calendar block families run into is covered in Kharmas and Malmas. Your own dates come from the free muhurat tool.

Three couples, worked end to end

All six charts below were drawn from the same computed population, selected as the first pair meeting each stated filter out of 242 pairs examined. Nothing about them is authored, and none of them is a customer.

Couple A: an excellent match with nowhere to put it

Partner A1 born 15 March 1993 at 01:07 in Bengaluru. Partner A2 born 21 March 1991 at 04:12 in Kolkata.

The score is 28.5 of 36, which is "Excellent Match" and puts them in the top 18 per cent of all pairings. Gana, Bhakoot and Nadi all come in at full marks, which is the combination that carries the score. Two checks are soft: Vashya scores 0 of 2 and Tara scores 1.5 of 3.

Both are Manglik. A1 has Mars in the 7th house from a Sagittarius Lagna and the 8th from the Moon, graded High. A2 has Mars in the 4th from an Aquarius Lagna and the 1st from the Moon, graded Medium. Because both carry it, the verdict is Compatible: the mutual-cancellation rule is the single most recognised compatibility factor in the tradition, and it applies here.

So the person half of the question is settled about as well as it can be. Then the timing:

A1 is in a Sun mahadasha with a Rahu antardasha until February 2027, scoring 17 out of 100. The Sun is A1's Darakaraka, so the chapter itself favours marriage, but the Rahu sub-period does not carry the 7th house, which makes this groundwork rather than the event. A2 is in Rahu with a Moon sub-period until February 2027, scoring 33. The Moon is A2's Darakaraka, so the sub-period is live, but A2's structure score is 45 with no supporting drivers at all and a medium Mangal Dosha as its only named finding.

Their joint window opens in March 2028, 19 months from now, and runs 19 months to September 2029. A1 is then in Sun/Saturn at 80 and A2 in Jupiter/Jupiter at 100.

Scanning the first 120 days of that joint window, 30 days are wedding-grade for both of them. The best are 31 March 2028, a Friday in Rohini nakshatra on Shukla Panchami, meaning the fifth lunar day of the waxing fortnight, scoring 97 generally with 91 for A1 and 100 for A2; and 2 June 2028, a Friday in Uttara Phalguni on Shukla Dashami, with the same general 97.

The reading for Couple A is wait, and the wait has an end date. There is nothing to fix about the match. There is a 19-month gap, a 19-month opening, and 30 usable days inside the first four months of it.

Couple B: a failing score with everything else open

Partner B1 born 21 March 1990 at 13:59 in Mumbai. Partner B2 born 24 June 1997 at 22:28 in Jaipur.

The score is 16.5 of 36, below the 18-point line, graded "Average Match (Proceed with caution)". Two checks are the reason. Gana is 0 of 6, described as "Boy Manushya, Girl Rakshasa, very challenging". Nadi is 0 of 8, described as "Same nadi (Madhya/Pitta), Nadi Dosha, inauspicious for progeny". The rest of the card is the opposite: Varna, Vashya and Bhakoot are all at full marks, and Bhakoot alone is worth 7 of the 16.5 they scored.

Both are technically Manglik and the verdict is Compatible, but the two sides are not alike. B2 has Mars in the 8th from the Moon, graded High, with only Jupiter's aspect as a mitigating factor. B1's dosha is Cancelled outright: Mars is exalted in Capricorn and Venus sits with it in the same sign, which is two cancellation factors where one strong one would have been enough.

Now the structure, which is where this couple stops looking like a weak match. B1's 7th lord is Saturn in its own sign Capricorn, sitting in the 7th house itself, and it is vargottama, holding Capricorn in the Navamsa too. Venus also sits in B1's 7th house. The structure score is 62 out of 100, in the "Strong" band, which is above the population's 75th percentile of 61. The frictions are named and real: Mars, Saturn and Rahu all sit in that same 7th house, which is heat and delay on the marriage axis.

B2's structure is 50 out of 100 with Venus in the 7th house and Venus vargottama.

And both are in their strongest possible windows right now. B1 is in Rahu with a Venus sub-period, running from October 2024 to October 2027 and scoring 100 out of 100. B2 is in Jupiter with a Venus sub-period, running from November 2025 to July 2028, also 100 out of 100. Their joint window opened in September 2026 and runs 22 months to June 2028.

In the first 120 days of that window, 28 days are wedding-grade for both. The strongest is 21 September 2026, a Monday in Uttara Ashadha on Shukla Dashami, scoring 97 generally, 100 for B1 and 99 for B2. Then 19 December 2026 in Revati, and 12 December 2026 in Uttara Ashadha.

One caution specific to this couple. Their sixth-ranked day, 18 October 2026, falls on the first day of the Venus asta window that runs to 30 October, so it scores well on every calendar factor and should still be dropped.

Couple B is the case where the number and everything else point in opposite directions. The number is genuinely low, the reason for it is one temperament comparison and one constitutional comparison of their birth stars, and the classical concern attached to the Nadi score is about children rather than about the marriage. Meanwhile both marriage periods are at their maximum, one structure is Strong with a vargottama 7th lord in its own sign, and the window closes in June 2028. A couple in this position who waits for a better score will wait through the best two years their charts contain.

Couple C: near-perfect, with the warning everybody fears

Partner C1 born 23 October 1993 at 05:27 in Chennai. Partner C2 born 19 June 1993 at 14:53 in Ahmedabad.

The score is 34.0 of 36, which is inside the top 1.85 per cent of all pairings. Tara, Graha Maitri, Gana, Bhakoot and Nadi are all full. The only points lost are 2 of 4 on Yoni, and Yoni is the check that scores 2 by default for most animal pairs.

And the verdict is Caution. C1's chart is completely clean: Mars sits in the 2nd house from a Virgo Lagna and the 10th from the Moon, neither of which is a dosha house. C2 has Mars in the 4th house from the Moon with a Libra Lagna, graded Medium, with no cancellation factors present. One live dosha, one clean chart, which is the one-sided pairing, and the standard text attached to it names Kumbh Vivah and mentions separation.

Sit that next to the base rate. This pairing shape occurs in 34.7 per cent of all couples. C2's severity is Medium rather than High, meaning Mars is in the 4th rather than the 7th or 8th, which is the milder half of the graded range.

The rest of C2's reading is mixed and worth reading properly rather than through the dosha. The 7th lord Mars sits in the 11th house of fulfilled wishes, which is supportive, and Venus sits in the 7th house, which softens it. Against that, Venus is debilitated in the Navamsa, sitting in Virgo, which is a real weakness in the chart that governs marriage specifically. C1's reading is the mirror image: Jupiter, the 7th lord, is vargottama, and Venus is in its own sign Taurus in the Navamsa, but Venus is debilitated in Virgo in the birth chart, so the marriage significator itself is under strain.

Both windows are open now. C1 is in Jupiter with a Jupiter sub-period from June 2026 to August 2028, scoring 100, and Jupiter is both C1's 7th lord and C1's Darakaraka. C2 is in Jupiter with a Venus sub-period from January 2025 to September 2027, scoring 78, with Venus as the marriage karaka sitting in C2's own 7th house. Their joint window is open from now until August 2027, 12 months.

Thirty-two days in the next 120 are wedding-grade for both. The best are 21 September 2026 at 97 general with 100 for each of them, 12 December 2026 in Uttara Ashadha, and 13 September 2026 in Hasta.

Couple C is where ranking matters most. On the score they are in the top 2 per cent. On timing they have a 12-month joint opening that closes in August 2027. On the Manglik check they hold the verdict that a third of all couples hold, at the milder of its two live grades. Treating the third reading as the veto would cost them the other two, and the traditional handling of a one-sided Medium dosha is a remedy performed before the wedding, not a cancellation of it.

How to rank the three when they disagree

Here is the full cross of the three tests over 20,000 couples, so you can find your own cell.

The ranking that follows from the base rates on this page runs in this order.

First, the blocks, because a block is the only thing that can be absolute. A wedding date inside a Guru asta or Shukra asta window is a real refusal and the dates are known years ahead. A High-severity dosha on one side against a completely clean chart on the other is the one Manglik configuration worth treating as a stop-and-consult, and it is much rarer than the Caution label, which fires on Medium severity too.

Second, the timing, because it is the only reading with an expiry. The score will be the same in 2031. The joint window will not. If you are one of the 16.7 per cent whose windows are both open, that is the fact with a deadline on it, and the median opening lasts 12 months. If you are one of the 48.2 per cent with one chart open, the question to answer is when the second one opens, which the median couple reaches in 21 months.

Third, the score, because it discriminates least. Use the bottom of its range and ignore the top. Below 14, which is 11.8 per cent of couples, take it seriously and find out which checks failed. Between 18 and 26, which is where most of the population sits, it is not carrying information about you specifically. Above 31, be pleased and then go back to the timing.

And separately from all three, the structure, which decides what a good window is worth. A debilitated 7th lord or a debilitated Venus in the Navamsa is a weakness that no wedding date compensates for and no match score reveals, and it is the one finding on this page that suggests actual work rather than a verdict.

What this page does not settle

Everything above is a reading of two charts. It measures where planets stood at two birth minutes and what the traditional rules make of that. It does not know whether you like each other, whether the two families can be in a room together, or what either of you wants from the next forty years. Those questions decide the marriage, and they are answered by talking rather than by computing.

What the computation is good for is removing the false pressure. If you have been told that 24 out of 36 is a strong result, or that a Manglik warning is a rare and serious finding, the numbers on this page say otherwise, and knowing that frees you to argue about the things that actually differ between one match and another.

Run both charts

The free compatibility tool gives you the 36-point total with every check broken out and the Manglik verdict for both sides, from two birth dates. The Mangal Dosha tool gives one chart's placement, reference and severity. The dasha calculator gives your period ladder and the muhurat tool grades days for a wedding.

What the three of them do not do together is the part this page is about: score both people's marriage windows against the same month, rank the readings when they conflict, and hand you the dated shortlist of days inside your joint window that clear both birth stars. That needs both birth times, both places, and the month you are actually considering, which is why it sits behind a sign-in rather than in a calculator. What comes back is the joint window table with its start and end months, both structure scores with their named drivers and frictions, both Navamsa readings, and the wedding days inside your window that both charts clear, with the asta dates already removed.

Related reading

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• Should I Marry the Person My Family Chose?
• Guna Milan Explained: the 36-point system
• Ashtakoot Matching: the eight kootas
• Minimum Gunas for Marriage: the 18-of-36 threshold
• Nadi Koota and Nadi Dosha in Matching
• Bhakoot Koota and Gana Koota
• Kundli Matching Without a Birth Time
• What Is Mangal Dosha (Manglik)?
• How Common Is Mangal Dosha? 100,000 charts
• Mangal Dosha in Matching
• Is My Kundli Manglik?
• When Will I Get Married?
• When Will I Meet the Person I Marry?
• What Will My Spouse Be Like?
• The D9 Navamsa Chart
• Marriage Muhurat 2026 and 2027
• Best Nakshatras for Marriage
• Kharmas and Malmas
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Method note. Every sign, house, degree, nakshatra, dignity, dasha date, transit date and koota score on this page was computed with the AstroMedha Vedic engine using the Lahiri ayanamsa and the Swiss Ephemeris, with mean nodes and whole-sign houses. The 36-point totals come from the eight-koota calculation applied to each pair's sidereal Moons, with per-person coordinates and a 5.5-hour offset supplied so that both charts carry an ascendant; 99.9 per cent of the pairs returned one on both sides. Manglik status uses houses 1, 4, 7, 8 and 12 counted from the Lagna and from the Moon, with severity graded High for the 7th and 8th, Medium for the 1st, 4th and 12th, and Cancelled when Mars is in its own sign or exalted or when two softer cancellation factors stack; Venus as a reference point and the 2nd house are computed and reported but never allowed to set the verdict. Window scores are out of 100 against a fixed reference window, the mahadasha of the 7th lord with the antardasha of Venus, rather than against each chart's own best, so a chart with a weak marriage axis reads as weak. Wedding-day scores run over nakshatra, tithi, the waxing or waning half of the lunar month, weekday, yoga and karana, with Tara Bala and Chandra Bala added when a birth chart is supplied; they do not check Guru asta or Shukra asta, which were dated separately from the Sun-to-planet separation at day resolution using the standard orbs of 11 degrees for Jupiter and 10 for Venus. The population figures come from 100,000 couples generated on 26 August 2026 with seed 20260826: both births uniform over 1 January 1988 to 31 December 2002, clock times uniform over the day at minute resolution, birthplaces drawn uniformly from Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Chandigarh and Nagpur. The birth-time sensitivity figures come from 3,000 of those couples, the dasha-overlap figures from 25,000 sampled at the middle of each of the 84 months from September 2026 to August 2033, the cross-test figures from 20,000, and the personalised muhurta figures from 2,000. The three worked couples were drawn from the same population as the first pair meeting each stated filter out of 242 pairs examined; they are computed births, not customers.