Ruling · Rādhāṣṭamī · 2055

Sunday 29 August

Determinatein Bucharest, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 560 minutes.

Decide it for

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 Saturday 28 August

Aṣṭamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 12:53  13:41 madhyāhna ends
12:0512:2912:5313:1713:4114:0514:29

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Sunday 29 August

Taken. The only midday Aṣṭamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 12:52  13:40 madhyāhna ends
12:0412:2812:5213:1613:4014:0414:28

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 00:21 on Sun 29 Aug to 23:00 on Sun 29 Aug.

    2055-08-28T21:20:50Z → 2055-08-29T20:00:01Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:53–13:41 on the 28th, 12:52–13:40 on the 29th.

    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 28th and 48 of 48 on the 29th.

    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 33586 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Rādhāṣṭamī, Bucharest, 2055: Sunday 29 August.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Bucharest, Rādhāṣṭamī 2055 falls on Sunday 29 August. Aṣṭamī runs from 00:21 on Sun 29 Aug to 23:00 on Sun 29 Aug and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/bucharest/festivals/2055/radhashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 29 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 29 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 29 Aug
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 28thCoveredMadhyāhna 29thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles14:21 → 13:0012:300 min12:3030 min29 Aug
Chicago16:21 → 15:0012:280 min12:2748 min29 Aug
Jersey City17:21 → 16:0012:330 min12:3348 min29 Aug
Port of Spain17:21 → 16:0011:430 min11:4348 min29 Aug
London22:21 → 21:0012:370 min12:3748 min29 Aug
Durban23:21 → 22:0011:330 min11:3348 min29 Aug
Dubai01:21 → 00:0011:560 min11:5648 min29 Aug
Delhi02:51 → 01:3011:580 min11:5848 min29 Aug
Kolkata02:51 → 01:3011:140 min11:1448 min29 Aug
Singapore05:21 → 04:0012:420 min12:4248 min29 Aug
Sydney07:21 → 06:0011:330 min11:3348 min29 Aug
Suva09:21 → 08:0011:440 min11:4448 min29 Aug
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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