Ruling · Bali Pūjā (Balidaityarāja Pūjā) · 2026

Monday 9 November

Determinatein Chicago, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 394 minutes.

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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 Sunday 8 November

Pratipadā is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

16:36 sunsetpradoṣa ends 18:28
16:1216:3617:0017:2417:4818:1218:3619:00

0 of 112 minutes covered

Evening of Monday 9 November

Taken. The only evening Pratipadā reaches.

16:35 sunsetpradoṣa ends 18:27
16:1116:3516:5917:2317:4718:1118:3518:59

112 of 112 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 01:02 on Mon 9 Nov to 02:31 on Tue 10 Nov.

    2026-11-09T07:02:07Z → 2026-11-10T08:30:37Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 16:36–18:28 on the 8th, 16:35–18:27 on the 9th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pratipadā must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 0 of 112 minutes on the 8th and 112 of 112 on the 9th.

    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 23657 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Bali Pūjā, Chicago, 2026: Monday 9 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Chicago, Bali Pūjā 2026 falls on Monday 9 November. Pratipadā runs from 01:02 on Mon 9 Nov to 02:31 on Tue 10 Nov and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/chicago/festivals/2026/bali-puja · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 9 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 9 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 9 Nov
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 9thCoveredSunset 10thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles23:02 → 00:3116:53108 min16:520 min9 Nov
Chicago01:02 → 02:3116:35112 min16:340 min9 Nov
Jersey City02:02 → 03:3116:43111 min16:420 min9 Nov
Port of Spain03:02 → 04:3117:4099 min17:400 min9 Nov
London07:02 → 08:3116:20119 min16:180 min9 Nov
Durban09:02 → 10:3118:2484 min18:250 min9 Nov
Dubai11:02 → 12:3117:33104 min17:330 min9 Nov
Delhi12:32 → 14:0117:30105 min17:300 min9 Nov
Kolkata12:32 → 14:0116:55103 min16:540 min9 Nov
Singapore15:02 → 16:3118:5096 min18:500 min9 Nov
Sydney18:02 → 19:3119:3082 min19:310 min9 Nov
Suva19:02 → 20:3118:1643 min18:1789 min10 Nov
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