Ruling · Ratha Saptamī · 2037

Saturday 24 January

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 66 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 Friday 23 January

Saptamī is absent from aruṇodaya. Not taken.

05:39 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:32
05:1505:3906:0306:2706:5107:1507:3908:03

0 of 113 minutes covered

Dawn of Saturday 24 January

Taken. The only dawn Saptamī reaches.

05:39 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:31
05:1505:3906:0306:2706:5107:1507:3908:03

112 of 112 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 08:37 on Fri 23 Jan to 10:19 on Sat 24 Jan.

    2037-01-23T00:37:03Z → 2037-01-24T02:19:04Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise: 05:39–07:32 on the 23rd, 05:39–07:31 on the 24th.

    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 113 minutes on the 23rd and 112 of 112 on the 24th.

    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 3931 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Ratha Saptamī, Baoding, 2037: Saturday 24 January.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Ratha Saptamī 2037 falls on Saturday 24 January. Saptamī runs from 08:37 on Fri 23 Jan to 10:19 on Sat 24 Jan and covers all of aruṇodaya that dawn.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2037/ratha-saptami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 24 Jan
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 24 Jan
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 24 Jan
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 23rdCoveredAruṇodaya 24thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles16:37 → 18:1905:06110 min05:060 min23 Jan
Chicago18:37 → 20:1905:17114 min05:160 min23 Jan
Jersey City19:37 → 21:1905:20114 min05:200 min23 Jan
Port of Spain20:37 → 22:1904:5199 min04:510 min23 Jan
London00:37 → 02:1905:49123 min05:480 min23 Jan
Durban02:37 → 04:1903:5583 min03:5524 min23 Jan
Dubai04:37 → 06:1905:20105 min05:1960 min23 Jan
Delhi06:07 → 07:4905:2766 min05:26107 min24 Jan
Kolkata06:07 → 07:4904:3411 min04:34104 min24 Jan
Singapore08:37 → 10:1905:390 min05:3996 min24 Jan
Sydney11:37 → 13:1904:480 min04:4880 min24 Jan
Suva12:37 → 14:1904:200 min04:2088 min24 Jan
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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