Ruling · Sūrya Ṣaṣṭhī (Bhādrapada) · 2039

Thursday 25 August

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 569 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 Wednesday 24 August

Ṣaṣṭhī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:56  12:44 madhyāhna ends
11:0811:3211:5612:2012:4413:0813:32

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Thursday 25 August

Taken. The only midday Ṣaṣṭhī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:56  12:44 madhyāhna ends
11:0811:3211:5612:2012:4413:0813:32

48 of 48 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Ṣaṣṭhī runs from 00:00 on Wed 24 Aug to 22:13 on Thu 25 Aug.

    2039-08-24T15:59:33Z → 2039-08-25T14:13:18Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:56–12:44 on the 24th, 11:56–12:44 on the 25th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Ṣaṣṭhī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 24th and 48 of 48 on the 25th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: paraviddha → only-day · margin 34152 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Sūrya Ṣaṣṭhī (Bhādrapada), Baoding, 2039: Thursday 25 August.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Sūrya Ṣaṣṭhī (Bhādrapada) 2039 falls on Thursday 25 August. Ṣaṣṭhī runs from 00:00 on Wed 24 Aug to 22:13 on Thu 25 Aug and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2039/surya-shashthi-bhadrapada · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 25 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 25 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 25 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/surya-shashthi-bhadrapada · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Bhādrapada, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Ṣaṣṭhī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Paraviddhā
Tie-break
Second day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 103

“S 6 Surya sasthi (paraviddha), Lolarka sasthi” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceṢaṣṭhīMadhyāhna 24thCoveredMadhyāhna 25thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles09:00 → 07:1312:3148 min12:310 min24 Aug
Chicago11:00 → 09:1312:2948 min12:280 min24 Aug
Jersey City12:00 → 10:1312:3448 min12:340 min24 Aug
Port of Spain12:00 → 10:1311:4433 min11:440 min24 Aug
London17:00 → 15:1312:380 min12:3848 min25 Aug
Durban18:00 → 16:1311:350 min11:3448 min25 Aug
Dubai20:00 → 18:1311:570 min11:5748 min25 Aug
Delhi21:30 → 19:4311:590 min11:5948 min25 Aug
Kolkata21:30 → 19:4311:150 min11:1548 min25 Aug
Singapore00:00 → 22:1312:430 min12:4348 min25 Aug
Sydney02:00 → 00:1311:340 min11:3448 min25 Aug
Suva04:00 → 02:1311:450 min11:4548 min25 Aug
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
surya-shashthi-bhadrapada@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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