Ruling · Buddha Pūrṇimā (Vaiśākhī Pūrṇimā) · 2056

Monday 29 May

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 57 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 Sunday 28 May

Pūrṇimā is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:52  12:40 madhyāhna ends
11:0411:2811:5212:1612:4013:0413:28

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Monday 29 May

Taken. Pūrṇimā reaches neither midday; the rule takes the second day.

madhyāhna begins 11:52  12:40 madhyāhna ends
11:0411:2811:5212:1612:4013:0413:28

0 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 13:37 on Sun 28 May to 09:58 on Mon 29 May.

    2056-05-28T05:36:55Z → 2056-05-29T01:58:19Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:52–12:40 on the 28th, 11:52–12:40 on the 29th.

    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 28th and 0 of 48 on the 29th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Neither midday qualifies. The rule takes the second day.

    priority: unstated → second-day · margin 3425 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Buddha Pūrṇimā, Baoding, 2056: Monday 29 May.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Buddha Pūrṇimā (Vesak) 2056 falls on Monday 29 May. Pūrṇimā runs from 13:37 on Sun 28 May to 09:58 on Mon 29 May, and reaches madhyāhna on neither day.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2056/buddha-purnima · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 29 May
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 29 May
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 28 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 28thCoveredMadhyāhna 29thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles22:37 → 18:5812:2748 min12:270 min28 May
Chicago00:37 → 20:5812:2448 min12:250 min28 May
Jersey City01:37 → 21:5812:3048 min12:300 min28 May
Port of Spain01:37 → 21:5811:4048 min11:400 min28 May
London06:37 → 02:5812:3448 min12:350 min28 May
Durban07:37 → 03:5811:2948 min11:290 min28 May
Dubai09:37 → 05:5811:5248 min11:530 min28 May
Delhi11:07 → 07:2811:5548 min11:550 min28 May
Kolkata11:07 → 07:2811:1048 min11:100 min28 May
Singapore13:37 → 09:5812:380 min12:380 min29 May
Sydney15:37 → 11:5811:290 min11:2930 min29 May
Suva17:37 → 13:5811:400 min11:4048 min29 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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