Ruling · Vasanta Pañcamī (Basant Panchami) · 2046

Sunday 11 February

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 Saturday 10 February

Pañcamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 12:09  12:57 madhyāhna ends
11:2111:4512:0912:3312:5713:2113:45

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Sunday 11 February

Taken. The only midday Pañcamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 12:09  12:57 madhyāhna ends
11:2111:4512:0912:3312:5713:2113:45

48 of 48 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pañcamī runs from 17:39 on Sat 10 Feb to 19:56 on Sun 11 Feb.

    2046-02-10T09:39:22Z → 2046-02-11T11:55:41Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:09–12:57 on the 10th, 12:09–12:57 on the 11th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pañcamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 10th and 48 of 48 on the 11th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 16967 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vasanta Pañcamī, Baoding, 2046: Sunday 11 February.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vasanta Pañcamī (Basant Panchami) 2046 falls on Sunday 11 February. Pañcamī runs from 17:39 on Sat 10 Feb to 19:56 on Sun 11 Feb and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2046/vasanta-panchami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 11 Feb
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 11 Feb
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 11 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/vasanta-panchami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

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

“S 5 Sri Pancami (purvaviddha), Sarasvati puja (Bengal), Vasanta pancami, Madana pancami.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePañcamīMadhyāhna 10thCoveredMadhyāhna 11thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles01:39 → 03:5611:4348 min11:430 min10 Feb
Chicago03:39 → 05:5611:4148 min11:410 min10 Feb
Jersey City04:39 → 06:5611:4748 min11:470 min10 Feb
Port of Spain05:39 → 07:5611:5648 min11:560 min10 Feb
London09:39 → 11:5611:5148 min11:515 min10 Feb
Durban11:39 → 13:5611:4648 min11:4648 min10 Feb
Dubai13:39 → 15:5612:090 min12:0948 min11 Feb
Delhi15:09 → 17:2612:110 min12:1148 min11 Feb
Kolkata15:09 → 17:2611:270 min11:2748 min11 Feb
Singapore17:39 → 19:5612:550 min12:5548 min11 Feb
Sydney20:39 → 22:5612:450 min12:4548 min11 Feb
Suva21:39 → 23:5611:560 min11:5648 min11 Feb
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
vasanta-panchami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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