Ruling · Buddha Pūrṇimā (Vaiśākhī Pūrṇimā) · 2033

Saturday 14 May

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 283 minutes.

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

The two middays

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.

Midday of Friday 13 May

Pūrṇimā is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:51  12:39 madhyāhna ends
11:0311:2711:5112:1512:3913:0313:27

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Saturday 14 May

Taken. The only midday Pūrṇimā reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:51  12:39 madhyāhna ends
11:0311:2711:5112:1512:3913:0313:27

48 of 48 minutes covered

Pūrṇimā presentMadhyāhna, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pūrṇimā runs from 17:22 on Fri 13 May to 18:43 on Sat 14 May.

    2033-05-13T09:22:06Z → 2033-05-14T10:42:45Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:51–12:39 on the 13th, 11:51–12:39 on the 14th.

    madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pūrṇimā must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 13th and 48 of 48 on the 14th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 16997 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Buddha Pūrṇimā, Baoding, 2033: Saturday 14 May.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Buddha Pūrṇimā (Vesak) 2033 falls on Saturday 14 May. Pūrṇimā runs from 17:22 on Fri 13 May to 18:43 on Sat 14 May and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2033/buddha-purnima · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 14 May
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 14 May
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 14 May
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/buddha-purnima · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Vaiśākha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pūrṇimā
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 102

“S 15 Sampat gauri vrata (paraviddha), Phuladola (Bengal & Orissa) (paraviddha), Gandhesvari puja (Bengal) (purvaviddha), Buddha purnima, Vaisakhi purnima.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePūrṇimāMadhyāhna 13thCoveredMadhyāhna 14thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles02:22 → 03:4312:2648 min12:260 min13 May
Chicago04:22 → 05:4312:2348 min12:230 min13 May
Jersey City05:22 → 06:4312:2948 min12:290 min13 May
Port of Spain05:22 → 06:4311:3948 min11:390 min13 May
London10:22 → 11:4312:3348 min12:330 min13 May
Durban11:22 → 12:4311:2848 min11:2848 min13 May
Dubai13:22 → 14:4311:510 min11:5148 min14 May
Delhi14:52 → 16:1311:540 min11:5448 min14 May
Kolkata14:52 → 16:1311:090 min11:0948 min14 May
Singapore17:22 → 18:4312:370 min12:3748 min14 May
Sydney19:22 → 20:4311:270 min11:2748 min14 May
Suva21:22 → 22:4311:390 min11:3948 min14 May
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
buddha-purnima@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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