Ruling · Makara Saṅkrānti (Makarādi Snāna) · 2059

Wednesday 15 January

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 283 minutes.

Decide it for

38°52′ N 115°28′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 1816971

The two days

A tick is five ghaṭīs, two hours. The day is midnight to midnight on the place’s clock.

Day of Tuesday 14 January

The transit does not fall in this day. Not taken.

00:00 midnightmidnight 00:00
23:3603:3607:3611:3615:3619:3623:36

Does not fall in this day

Day of Wednesday 15 January

Taken. The transit falls in this day.

00:00 midnightmidnight 00:00
Sun enters Makara 04:43:01
23:3603:3607:3611:3615:3619:3623:36

Falls in this day

The day, the window the rule readsThe instant the Sun enters Makara

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    The Sun enters Makara at 04:43 on Wed 15 Jan.

    2059-01-14T20:43:01Z · nirayana, lahiri-iae1985

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day is counted from midnight to midnight, on the clock of Baoding.

    civil-day: midnight-to-midnight · Asia/Shanghai

  3. 03

    Rule

    The festival is kept on the day of the transit, the day counted from midnight. The transit falls on the 15th, not the 14th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 106

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    An instant falls in one day and no other. No tie-break is needed.

    day counted from midnight → only-day · margin 16981 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Makara Saṅkrānti, Baoding, 2059: Wednesday 15 January.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Makara Saṅkrānti 2059 falls on Wednesday 15 January. The Sun enters Makara at 04:43 on Wed 15 Jan, and the rule counts the day from midnight. Counted from sunrise, as in Orissa, it is 14 January.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2059/makara-sankranti · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 15 Jan
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 15 Jan
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 15 Jan
Counted from sunrise (the Orissa rule)CRC 1955, p. 244Tue 14 Jan
Past sunset, the next day (the Tamil rule)CRC 1955, p. 244Wed 15 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/makara-sankranti · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Sign entered
Makara
Zodiac
Nirayana
Ayanāṃśa
lahiri-iae1985
Day counted from
Midnight
Tie-break
None: an instant
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 106

“Makaradi — Makaradi snana, Magh Bihu (Assam), Tila samkranti, Pongal (S. India), Bhogi (S. India — on the day before Pongal), Mattu Pongal (S. India — on the day after Pongal).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 106. “The following festivals are observed according to the day of Sun's transit into rasis (Ravi-samkramana). For this purpose the day has been taken to begin from midnight, i.e., when the samkramana takes place after midnight, the festival relating to the samkramana is to be observed on the following day.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 106.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceSun enters MakaraMidnight 14thCoveredMidnight 15thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles12:4300:00falls00:00no14 Jan
Chicago14:4300:00falls00:00no14 Jan
Jersey City15:4300:00falls00:00no14 Jan
Port of Spain16:4300:00falls00:00no14 Jan
London20:4300:00falls00:00no14 Jan
Durban22:4300:00falls00:00no14 Jan
Dubai00:4300:00no00:00falls15 Jan
Delhi02:1300:00no00:00falls15 Jan
Kolkata02:1300:00no00:00falls15 Jan
Singapore04:4300:00no00:00falls15 Jan
Sydney07:4300:00no00:00falls15 Jan
Suva08:4300:00no00:00falls15 Jan
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
makara-sankranti@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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