Day of Friday 8 October
Daśamī with Śravaṇa is absent from the day time. Not taken.
06:55 sunrisesunset 18:20
06:3108:3110:3112:3114:3116:3118:31
0 of 685 minutes covered
Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2027
Determinatein Chicago, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 328 minutes.
A tick is five ghaṭīs, two hours. The day time is sunrise to sunset.
Day of Friday 8 October
Daśamī with Śravaṇa is absent from the day time. Not taken.
0 of 685 minutes covered
Day of Saturday 9 October
Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.
682 of 682 minutes covered
Aṅga
Daśamī runs from 22:32 on Fri 8 Oct to 01:11 on Sun 10 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 23:48 on Fri 8 Oct to 02:56 on Sun 10 Oct. They are together from 23:48 on Fri 8 Oct to 01:11 on Sun 10 Oct.
2027-10-09T04:48:18Z → 2027-10-10T06:11:09Z
Kāla
The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:55–18:20 on the 8th, 06:56–18:19 on the 9th.
daytime: sunrise-to-sunset · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′
Rule
Where Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time, that day is taken. Together they cover 0 of 685 minutes on the 8th and 682 of 682 on the 9th.
Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104
Tie-break
Only one day qualifies. No tie-break is needed.
priority: unstated → only-day · margin 19674 s
Ruling
Vijayā Daśamī, Chicago, 2027: Saturday 9 October.
confidence: determinate
In Chicago, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2027 falls on Saturday 9 October. Daśamī runs from 22:32 on Fri 8 Oct to 01:11 on Sun 10 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 682 minutes.
| Authority | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Ahargaṇa, pac-rp | This ruling | Sat 9 Oct |
| Ahargaṇa, classical | Disc centre, no refraction | Sat 9 Oct |
| compat-drikpanchang | Comparison profile | Sat 9 Oct |
| No institution has a recorded ruling for Chicago. | ||
Institutional rulings are recorded with a source address, and are never edited to agree.
/rules/vijaya-dashami · ruleset 2026.3-draft
“S 10 Vijaya dasami (In Bengal it is observed as paraviddha, covering one muhurta from sunrise. In other places, if it touches Sravana naksatra in the day time it is observed on that day), Sarasvati visarjana (to be observed in naksatra Sravana), Dasahara.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104. The Bengal reading (paraviddha, one muhūrta from sunrise) is not applied.
Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.
| Place | Daśamī with Śravaṇa | Sunrise 9th | Covered | Sunrise 10th | Covered | Ruled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles | 21:48 → 23:11 | 06:54 | 693 min | 06:54 | 0 min | 9 Oct |
| Chicago | 23:48 → 01:11 | 06:56 | 682 min | 06:57 | 0 min | 9 Oct |
| Jersey City | 00:48 → 02:11 | 07:01 | 684 min | 07:02 | 0 min | 9 Oct |
| Port of Spain | 00:48 → 02:11 | 05:55 | 717 min | 05:55 | 0 min | 9 Oct |
| London | 05:48 → 07:11 | 07:14 | 666 min | 07:16 | 0 min | 9 Oct |
| Durban | 06:48 → 08:11 | 05:25 | 673 min | 05:24 | 167 min | 9 Oct |
| Dubai | 08:48 → 10:11 | 06:14 | 549 min | 06:15 | 236 min | 9 Oct |
| Delhi | 10:18 → 11:41 | 06:18 | 460 min | 06:19 | 322 min | 9 Oct |
| Kolkata | 10:18 → 11:41 | 05:31 | 419 min | 05:31 | 370 min | 9 Oct |
| Singapore | 12:48 → 14:11 | 06:49 | 366 min | 06:49 | 442 min | 10 Oct |
| Sydney | 15:48 → 17:11 | 06:23 | 195 min | 06:21 | 650 min | 10 Oct |
| Suva | 16:48 → 18:11 | 05:43 | 77 min | 05:42 | 744 min | 10 Oct |