Ruling · Ratha Saptamī · 2087

Sunday 9 February

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 11 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 Sunday 9 February

Taken. The only dawn Saptamī reaches.

05:29 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:17
Saptamī begins 05:40:14
05:0505:2905:5306:1706:4107:0507:29

97 of 108 minutes covered, the last 97

Dawn of Monday 10 February

Saptamī is absent from aruṇodaya. Not taken.

05:28 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:16
05:0405:2805:5206:1606:4007:0407:28

0 of 108 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Saptamī runs from 05:40 on Sun 9 Feb to 03:35 on Mon 10 Feb.

    2087-02-08T21:40:15Z → 2087-02-09T19:35:29Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise: 05:29–07:17 on the 9th, 05:28–07:16 on the 10th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Saptamī must be present during aruṇodaya. It covers 97 of 108 minutes on the 9th and 0 of 108 on the 10th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 674 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Ratha Saptamī, Baoding, 2087: Sunday 9 February.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Ratha Saptamī 2087 falls on Sunday 9 February. Saptamī runs from 05:40 on Sun 9 Feb to 03:35 on Mon 10 Feb and covers 97 of 108 minutes of aruṇodaya that dawn.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2087/ratha-saptami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 9 Feb
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 9 Feb
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 9 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/ratha-saptami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

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

“S 7 Ratha saptami (covering 4 ghatikas before sunrise), Acala saptami, Vidhana saptami, Arogya saptami [purvaviddha].” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceSaptamīAruṇodaya 8thCoveredAruṇodaya 9thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles13:40 → 11:3504:580 min04:58106 min9 Feb
Chicago15:40 → 13:3505:060 min05:05109 min9 Feb
Jersey City16:40 → 14:3505:100 min05:09109 min9 Feb
Port of Spain17:40 → 15:3504:500 min04:5098 min9 Feb
London21:40 → 19:3505:320 min05:31115 min9 Feb
Durban23:40 → 21:3504:060 min04:0686 min9 Feb
Dubai01:40 → 23:3505:150 min05:15103 min9 Feb
Delhi03:10 → 01:0505:210 min05:21104 min9 Feb
Kolkata03:10 → 01:0504:310 min04:31102 min9 Feb
Singapore05:40 → 03:3505:420 min05:4296 min9 Feb
Sydney08:40 → 06:3505:000 min05:010 min10 Feb
Suva09:40 → 07:3504:270 min04:280 min10 Feb
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
ratha-saptami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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