Ruling · Rādhāṣṭamī · 2048

Tuesday 15 September

Determinatein Bucharest, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 387 minutes.

Decide it for

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44°26′ N 26°06′ E · Europe/Bucharest · GeoNames 683506

The two middays

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.

Midday of Monday 14 September

Aṣṭamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 12:47  13:35 madhyāhna ends
11:5912:2312:4713:1113:3513:5914:23

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Tuesday 15 September

Taken. The only midday Aṣṭamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 12:46  13:34 madhyāhna ends
11:5812:2212:4613:1013:3413:5814:22

48 of 48 minutes covered

Aṣṭamī presentMadhyāhna, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Aṣṭamī runs from 22:06 on Mon 14 Sep to 20:02 on Tue 15 Sep.

    2048-09-14T19:06:03Z → 2048-09-15T17:01:40Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:47–13:35 on the 14th, 12:46–13:34 on the 15th.

    madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Aṣṭamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 14th and 48 of 48 on the 15th.

    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: unstated → only-day · margin 23246 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Rādhāṣṭamī, Bucharest, 2048: Tuesday 15 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Bucharest, Rādhāṣṭamī 2048 falls on Tuesday 15 September. Aṣṭamī runs from 22:06 on Mon 14 Sep to 20:02 on Tue 15 Sep and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/bucharest/festivals/2048/radhashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 15 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 15 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 15 Sep
No institution has a recorded ruling for Bucharest.

Institutional rulings are recorded with a source address, and are never edited to agree.

The rule, as data

/rules/radhashtami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Bhādrapada, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Aṣṭamī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 103

“S 8 Durvastami (purvaviddha — S 8 of saura Bhadra except Bengal), Mahalaksmi vratarambha, Radhastami (madhyahna vyapini)” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceAṣṭamīMadhyāhna 14thCoveredMadhyāhna 15thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles12:06 → 10:0212:2448 min12:240 min14 Sep
Chicago14:06 → 12:0212:220 min12:210 min15 Sep
Jersey City15:06 → 13:0212:270 min12:2735 min15 Sep
Port of Spain15:06 → 13:0211:370 min11:3748 min15 Sep
London20:06 → 18:0212:310 min12:3148 min15 Sep
Durban21:06 → 19:0211:280 min11:2748 min15 Sep
Dubai23:06 → 21:0211:500 min11:5048 min15 Sep
Delhi00:36 → 22:3211:520 min11:5248 min15 Sep
Kolkata00:36 → 22:3211:080 min11:0848 min15 Sep
Singapore03:06 → 01:0212:360 min12:3648 min15 Sep
Sydney05:06 → 03:0211:270 min11:2748 min15 Sep
Suva07:06 → 05:0211:380 min11:3848 min15 Sep
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
radhashtami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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