Ruling · Buddha Pūrṇimā (Vaiśākhī Pūrṇimā) · 2036

Saturday 10 May

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 211 minutes.

Decide it for

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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 9 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 10 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 16:29 on Fri 9 May to 16:10 on Sat 10 May.

    2036-05-09T08:29:28Z → 2036-05-10T08:09:36Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:51–12:39 on the 9th, 11:51–12:39 on the 10th.

    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 9th and 48 of 48 on the 10th.

    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 12644 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Buddha Pūrṇimā, Baoding, 2036: Saturday 10 May.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Buddha Pūrṇimā (Vesak) 2036 falls on Saturday 10 May. Pūrṇimā runs from 16:29 on Fri 9 May to 16:10 on Sat 10 May and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2036/buddha-purnima · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 10 May
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 10 May
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 10 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 9thCoveredMadhyāhna 10thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles01:29 → 01:1012:2648 min12:260 min9 May
Chicago03:29 → 03:1012:2348 min12:230 min9 May
Jersey City04:29 → 04:1012:2948 min12:290 min9 May
Port of Spain04:29 → 04:1011:3948 min11:390 min9 May
London09:29 → 09:1012:3348 min12:330 min9 May
Durban10:29 → 10:1011:2848 min11:280 min9 May
Dubai12:29 → 12:1011:5110 min11:5118 min10 May
Delhi13:59 → 13:4011:540 min11:5448 min10 May
Kolkata13:59 → 13:4011:090 min11:0948 min10 May
Singapore16:29 → 16:1012:370 min12:3748 min10 May
Sydney18:29 → 18:1011:270 min11:2748 min10 May
Suva20:29 → 20:1011:390 min11:3948 min10 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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