Ruling · Naraka Caturdaśī (Choti Diwali) · 2067

Sunday 6 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 62 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 Saturday 5 November

Caturdaśī is absent from aruṇodaya. Not taken.

05:01 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 06:50
04:3705:0105:2505:4906:1306:3707:01

0 of 109 minutes covered

Dawn of Sunday 6 November

Taken. The only dawn Caturdaśī reaches.

05:02 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 06:51
04:3805:0205:2605:5006:1406:3807:02

109 of 109 minutes covered

Caturdaśī presentAruṇodaya, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Caturdaśī runs from 07:51 on Sat 5 Nov to 08:19 on Sun 6 Nov.

    2067-11-04T23:51:10Z → 2067-11-06T00:18:41Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise: 05:01–06:50 on the 5th, 05:02–06:51 on the 6th.

    arunodaya: prev-night-muhurta-14-15 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Caturdaśī must be present during aruṇodaya. It covers 0 of 109 minutes on the 5th and 109 of 109 on the 6th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: purvaviddha → only-day · margin 3693 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Naraka Caturdaśī, Baoding, 2067: Sunday 6 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Naraka Caturdaśī (Choti Diwali) 2067 falls on Sunday 6 November. Caturdaśī runs from 07:51 on Sat 5 Nov to 08:19 on Sun 6 Nov and covers all of aruṇodaya that dawn.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2067/naraka-chaturdashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 6 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 6 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 6 Nov
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/naraka-chaturdashi · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Āśvina, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Kṛṣṇa · Caturdaśī
Kāla
Aruṇodaya
Priority
Pūrvaviddhā
Tie-break
First day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 104

“K 14 Naraka caturdasi (covering a period of 4 ghatikas before sunrise, if occurs on two successive days, it is to be observed on the first day)” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceCaturdaśīAruṇodaya 4thCoveredAruṇodaya 6thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles16:51 → 17:1905:290 min04:310 min5 Nov
Chicago18:51 → 19:1905:370 min04:390 min5 Nov
Jersey City19:51 → 20:1905:410 min04:430 min5 Nov
Port of Spain19:51 → 20:1904:200 min04:200 min5 Nov
London23:51 → 00:1905:040 min05:060 min5 Nov
Durban01:51 → 02:1903:340 min03:330 min5 Nov
Dubai03:51 → 04:1904:450 min04:460 min5 Nov
Delhi05:21 → 05:4904:510 min04:5256 min5 Nov
Kolkata05:21 → 05:4904:010 min04:02102 min5 Nov
Singapore07:51 → 08:1905:110 min05:1196 min6 Nov
Sydney10:51 → 11:1904:290 min04:2883 min6 Nov
Suva11:51 → 12:1903:560 min03:5689 min6 Nov
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
naraka-chaturdashi@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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