Ruling · Sūrya Ṣaṣṭhī (Bhādrapada) · 2086

Saturday 14 September

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 529 minutes.

Decide it for

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 Friday 13 September

Ṣaṣṭhī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:50  12:38 madhyāhna ends
11:0211:2611:5012:1412:3813:0213:26

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Saturday 14 September

Taken. The only midday Ṣaṣṭhī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:50  12:38 madhyāhna ends
11:0211:2611:5012:1412:3813:0213:26

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 21:27 on Fri 13 Sep to 23:27 on Sat 14 Sep.

    2086-09-13T13:27:25Z → 2086-09-14T15:26:44Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:50–12:38 on the 13th, 11:50–12:38 on the 14th.

    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 13th and 48 of 48 on the 14th.

    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 31763 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Sūrya Ṣaṣṭhī (Bhādrapada), Baoding, 2086: Saturday 14 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Sūrya Ṣaṣṭhī (Bhādrapada) 2086 falls on Saturday 14 September. Ṣaṣṭhī runs from 21:27 on Fri 13 Sep to 23:27 on Sat 14 Sep and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2086/surya-shashthi-bhadrapada · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 14 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 14 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 14 Sep
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 13thCoveredMadhyāhna 14thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles06:27 → 08:2712:2548 min12:240 min13 Sep
Chicago08:27 → 10:2712:2248 min12:220 min13 Sep
Jersey City09:27 → 11:2712:2848 min12:280 min13 Sep
Port of Spain09:27 → 11:2711:3848 min11:380 min13 Sep
London14:27 → 16:2712:320 min12:3248 min14 Sep
Durban15:27 → 17:2711:280 min11:2848 min14 Sep
Dubai17:27 → 19:2711:510 min11:5048 min14 Sep
Delhi18:57 → 20:5711:530 min11:5348 min14 Sep
Kolkata18:57 → 20:5711:090 min11:0848 min14 Sep
Singapore21:27 → 23:2712:370 min12:3648 min14 Sep
Sydney23:27 → 01:2711:280 min11:2748 min14 Sep
Suva01:27 → 03:2711:390 min11:3848 min14 Sep
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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