Ruling · Aghora Caturdaśī · 2028

Saturday 19 August

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 107 minutes.

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38°52′ N 115°28′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 1816971

The two evenings

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset.

Evening of Friday 18 August

Caturdaśī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

19:08 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:32
18:4419:0819:3219:5620:2020:4421:08

0 of 84 minutes covered

Evening of Saturday 19 August

Taken. The only evening Caturdaśī reaches.

19:07 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:31
18:4319:0719:3119:5520:1920:4321:07

84 of 84 minutes covered

Caturdaśī presentPradoṣa, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Caturdaśī runs from 01:31 on Sat 19 Aug to 22:18 on Sat 19 Aug.

    2028-08-18T17:30:39Z → 2028-08-19T14:17:35Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 19:08–20:32 on the 18th, 19:07–20:31 on the 19th.

    pradosha: night-muhurta-1-2 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Caturdaśī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 0 of 84 minutes on the 18th and 84 of 84 on the 19th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Only one evening qualifies. No tie-break is needed.

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 6394 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Aghora Caturdaśī, Baoding, 2028: Saturday 19 August.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Aghora Caturdaśī 2028 falls on Saturday 19 August. Caturdaśī runs from 01:31 on Sat 19 Aug to 22:18 on Sat 19 Aug and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2028/aghora-chaturdashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 19 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 19 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 19 Aug
No institution has a recorded ruling for Baoding.

Institutional rulings are recorded with a source address, and are never edited to agree.

The rule, as data

/rules/aghora-chaturdashi · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Śrāvaṇa, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Kṛṣṇa · Caturdaśī
Kāla
Pradoṣa
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 103

“K 14 Aghora caturdasi (pradosa vyapini).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceCaturdaśīSunset 18thCoveredSunset 19thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles10:31 → 07:1819:3586 min19:340 min18 Aug
Chicago12:31 → 09:1819:4583 min19:440 min18 Aug
Jersey City13:31 → 10:1819:4983 min19:470 min18 Aug
Port of Spain13:31 → 10:1818:2393 min18:220 min18 Aug
London18:31 → 15:1820:1677 min20:140 min18 Aug
Durban19:31 → 16:1817:330 min17:340 min18 Aug
Dubai21:31 → 18:1818:500 min18:500 min18 Aug
Delhi23:01 → 19:4818:570 min18:5652 min19 Aug
Kolkata23:01 → 19:4818:050 min18:0589 min19 Aug
Singapore01:31 → 22:1819:130 min19:1295 min19 Aug
Sydney03:31 → 00:1817:280 min17:28104 min19 Aug
Suva05:31 → 02:1817:560 min17:56100 min19 Aug
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
aghora-chaturdashi@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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