Ruling · Ratha Saptamī · 2035

Thursday 15 February

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 187 minutes.

Decide it for

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

The two dawns

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise.

Dawn of Wednesday 14 February

Saptamī is absent from aruṇodaya. Not taken.

05:25 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:12
05:0105:2505:4906:1306:3707:0107:25

0 of 107 minutes covered

Dawn of Thursday 15 February

Taken. The only dawn Saptamī reaches.

05:24 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:10
05:0005:2405:4806:1206:3607:0007:24

106 of 106 minutes covered

Saptamī presentAruṇodaya, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Saptamī runs from 12:08 on Wed 14 Feb to 10:18 on Thu 15 Feb.

    2035-02-14T04:07:52Z → 2035-02-15T02:17:38Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise: 05:25–07:12 on the 14th, 05:24–07:10 on the 15th.

    arunodaya: prev-night-muhurta-14-15 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Saptamī must be present during aruṇodaya. It covers 0 of 107 minutes on the 14th and 106 of 106 on the 15th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 11236 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Ratha Saptamī, Baoding, 2035: Thursday 15 February.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Ratha Saptamī 2035 falls on Thursday 15 February. Saptamī runs from 12:08 on Wed 14 Feb to 10:18 on Thu 15 Feb and covers all of aruṇodaya that dawn.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2035/ratha-saptami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 15 Feb
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 15 Feb
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 15 Feb
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/ratha-saptami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Māgha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Saptamī
Kāla
Aruṇodaya
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 105

“S 7 Ratha saptami (covering 4 ghatikas before sunrise), Acala saptami, Vidhana saptami, Arogya saptami [purvaviddha].” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceSaptamīAruṇodaya 14thCoveredAruṇodaya 15thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles20:08 → 18:1804:54105 min04:540 min14 Feb
Chicago22:08 → 20:1805:00108 min04:590 min14 Feb
Jersey City23:08 → 21:1805:05107 min05:040 min14 Feb
Port of Spain00:08 → 22:1804:4998 min04:490 min14 Feb
London04:08 → 02:1805:24113 min05:230 min14 Feb
Durban06:08 → 04:1804:090 min04:098 min15 Feb
Dubai08:08 → 06:1805:130 min05:1266 min15 Feb
Delhi09:38 → 07:4805:180 min05:17103 min15 Feb
Kolkata09:38 → 07:4804:280 min04:28101 min15 Feb
Singapore12:08 → 10:1805:410 min05:4195 min15 Feb
Sydney15:08 → 13:1805:040 min05:0585 min15 Feb
Suva16:08 → 14:1804:290 min04:2990 min15 Feb
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
ratha-saptami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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