Ruling · Bali Pūjā (Balidaityarāja Pūjā) · 2025

Tuesday 21 October

Determinatein Chicago, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 490 minutes.

Decide it for

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41°51′ N 87°39′ W · America/Chicago · GeoNames 4887398

The two evenings

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset.

Evening of Tuesday 21 October

Taken. The only evening Pratipadā reaches.

17:59 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:45
17:3517:5918:2318:4719:1119:3519:59

106 of 106 minutes covered

Evening of Wednesday 22 October

Pratipadā is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

17:58 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:44
17:3417:5818:2218:4619:1019:3419:58

0 of 106 minutes covered

Pratipadā presentPradoṣa, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pratipadā runs from 07:25 on Tue 21 Oct to 09:47 on Wed 22 Oct.

    2025-10-21T12:25:10Z → 2025-10-22T14:47:14Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:59–19:45 on the 21st, 17:58–19:44 on the 22nd.

    pradosha: night-muhurta-1-2 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pratipadā must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 106 of 106 minutes on the 21st and 0 of 106 on the 22nd.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 29428 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Bali Pūjā, Chicago, 2025: Tuesday 21 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Chicago, Bali Pūjā 2025 falls on Tuesday 21 October. Pratipadā runs from 07:25 on Tue 21 Oct to 09:47 on Wed 22 Oct and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/chicago/festivals/2025/bali-puja · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 21 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 21 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 21 Oct
No institution has a recorded ruling for Chicago.

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

The rule, as data

/rules/bali-puja · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Kārtika, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pratipadā
Kāla
Pradoṣa
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 104

“S 1 Govardhana puja, Annakuta [purvaviddha], Balidaityaraja puja (pradosa), Dyuta pratipad (purvahna).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePratipadāSunset 21stCoveredSunset 22ndCoveredRuled
Los Angeles05:25 → 07:4718:11103 min18:100 min21 Oct
Chicago07:25 → 09:4717:59106 min17:580 min21 Oct
Jersey City08:25 → 10:4718:06105 min18:050 min21 Oct
Port of Spain08:25 → 10:4717:4597 min17:450 min21 Oct
London13:25 → 15:4717:54110 min17:520 min21 Oct
Durban14:25 → 16:4718:1088 min18:100 min21 Oct
Dubai16:25 → 18:4717:46101 min17:4562 min21 Oct
Delhi17:55 → 20:1717:4592 min17:44102 min22 Oct
Kolkata17:55 → 20:1717:0651 min17:06100 min22 Oct
Singapore20:25 → 22:4718:512 min18:5195 min22 Oct
Sydney23:25 → 01:4719:130 min19:1487 min22 Oct
Suva00:25 → 02:4718:090 min18:0991 min22 Oct
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
bali-puja@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s