Ruling · Buddha Pūrṇimā (Vaiśākhī Pūrṇimā) · 2088

Wednesday 5 May

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 595 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 Tuesday 4 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 Wednesday 5 May

Taken. The only midday Pūrṇimā reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:51  12:39 madhyāhna ends
11:0311:2711:5112:1512:3913:0313:27

48 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 22:35 on Tue 4 May to 00:27 on Thu 6 May.

    2088-05-04T14:34:43Z → 2088-05-05T16:26:39Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:52–12:40 on the 4th, 11:51–12:39 on the 5th.

    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 4th and 48 of 48 on the 5th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 35711 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Buddha Pūrṇimā, Baoding, 2088: Wednesday 5 May.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Buddha Pūrṇimā (Vesak) 2088 falls on Wednesday 5 May. Pūrṇimā runs from 22:35 on Tue 4 May to 00:27 on Thu 6 May and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2088/buddha-purnima · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 5 May
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 5 May
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 5 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 4thCoveredMadhyāhna 5thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles07:35 → 09:2712:2648 min12:260 min4 May
Chicago09:35 → 11:2712:2448 min12:240 min4 May
Jersey City10:35 → 12:2712:3048 min12:300 min4 May
Port of Spain10:35 → 12:2711:3948 min11:3948 min4 May
London15:35 → 17:2712:340 min12:3448 min5 May
Durban16:35 → 18:2711:290 min11:2948 min5 May
Dubai18:35 → 20:2711:520 min11:5248 min5 May
Delhi20:05 → 21:5711:540 min11:5448 min5 May
Kolkata20:05 → 21:5711:100 min11:1048 min5 May
Singapore22:35 → 00:2712:380 min12:3848 min5 May
Sydney00:35 → 02:2711:280 min11:2848 min5 May
Suva02:35 → 04:2711:390 min11:3948 min5 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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