Ruling · Dyūta Pratipad · 2026

Monday 9 November

Determinatein Chicago, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 244 minutes.

Decide it for

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

The two forenoons

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas.

Forenoon of Monday 9 November

Taken. The only forenoon Pratipadā reaches.

06:33 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 09:54
06:0906:5707:4508:3309:2110:09

201 of 201 minutes covered

Forenoon of Tuesday 10 November

Pratipadā is absent from pūrvāhṇa. Not taken.

06:34 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 09:54
06:1006:5807:4608:3409:2210:10

0 of 200 minutes covered

Pratipadā presentPūrvāhṇa, 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

    Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas: 06:33–09:54 on the 9th, 06:34–09:54 on the 10th.

    purvahna: day-muhurta-1-5 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pratipadā must be present during pūrvāhṇa. It covers 201 of 201 minutes on the 9th and 0 of 200 on the 10th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 14630 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Dyūta Pratipad, Chicago, 2026: Monday 9 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Chicago, Dyūta Pratipad 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 pūrvāhṇa that forenoon.

ahargana.org/chicago/festivals/2026/dyuta-pratipad · 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/dyuta-pratipad · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Kārtika, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pratipadā
Kāla
Pūrvāhṇa
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.

PlacePratipadāSunrise 9thCoveredSunrise 10thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles23:02 → 00:3106:20211 min06:210 min9 Nov
Chicago01:02 → 02:3106:33201 min06:340 min9 Nov
Jersey City02:02 → 03:3106:36202 min06:380 min9 Nov
Port of Spain03:02 → 04:3106:00233 min06:000 min9 Nov
London07:02 → 08:3107:08184 min07:1080 min9 Nov
Durban09:02 → 10:3104:5623 min04:55270 min10 Nov
Dubai11:02 → 12:3106:310 min06:32220 min10 Nov
Delhi12:32 → 14:0106:390 min06:40217 min10 Nov
Kolkata12:32 → 14:0105:460 min05:46223 min10 Nov
Singapore15:02 → 16:3106:470 min06:47241 min10 Nov
Sydney18:02 → 19:3105:480 min05:48274 min10 Nov
Suva19:02 → 20:3105:240 min05:24258 min10 Nov
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
dyuta-pratipad@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s