Ruling · Holī · 2049

Saturday 20 March

Determinatein Kunming, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Kept the day after Holikā Dahana, Fri 19 Mar. Clear of every threshold by 51 minutes.

Decide it for

25°02′ N 102°43′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 1804651

The two late afternoons

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Sāyāhna is last 3 of 15 day muhūrtas.

Late afternoon of Thursday 18 March

Pūrṇimā is absent from sāyāhna. Not taken.

16:54 sāyāhna beginssunset 19:19
16:3016:5417:1817:4218:0618:3018:5419:1819:42

0 of 145 minutes covered

Late afternoon of Friday 19 March

Taken for Holikā Dahana. The only late afternoon Pūrṇimā reaches. Holī is the day after.

16:55 sāyāhna beginssunset 19:20
16:3116:5517:1917:4318:0718:3118:5519:1919:43

145 of 145 minutes covered

Pūrṇimā presentSāyāhna, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pūrṇimā runs from 20:11 on Thu 18 Mar to 20:23 on Fri 19 Mar.

    2049-03-18T12:10:33Z → 2049-03-19T12:23:23Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Sāyāhna is last 3 of 15 day muhūrtas: 16:54–19:19 on the 18th, 16:55–19:20 on the 19th.

    sayahna: day-muhurta-13-15 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pūrṇimā must be present during sāyāhna. It covers 0 of 145 minutes on the 18th and 145 of 145 on the 19th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Only one late afternoon qualifies. No tie-break is needed.

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 3078 s

  5. 05

    Counted

    Holī is kept the day after Holikā Dahana: Friday 19 March is the day taken above.

    follows: holika-dahana + 1 d

  6. 06

    Ruling

    Holī, Kunming, 2049: Saturday 20 March.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Kunming, Holī 2049 falls on Saturday 20 March. It is kept the day after Holikā Dahana, which falls on Friday 19 March. Pūrṇimā runs from 20:11 on Thu 18 Mar to 20:23 on Fri 19 Mar and covers all of sāyāhna on the 19th.

ahargana.org/kunming/festivals/2049/holi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 20 Mar
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 20 Mar
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 20 Mar
No institution has a recorded ruling for Kunming.

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

The rule, as data

/rules/holi · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Phālguna, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pūrṇimā
Kāla
Sāyāhna
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Kept
The day after Holikā Dahana

“S 15 Holika-dahana (Sayahnavyapini — it should be observed on second half of purnima at night), Dolayatra (Bengal & Orissa) (covering 4 ghatikas before sunrise of the day of festival), Holi — on the day after Holikadahana.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePūrṇimāSāyāhna 18thCoveredSāyāhna 19thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles05:11 → 05:2316:38145 min16:390 min19 Mar
Chicago07:11 → 07:2316:36145 min16:370 min19 Mar
Jersey City08:11 → 08:2316:42145 min16:420 min19 Mar
Port of Spain08:11 → 08:2315:52145 min15:520 min19 Mar
London12:11 → 12:2315:46145 min15:470 min19 Mar
Durban14:11 → 14:2315:43146 min15:420 min19 Mar
Dubai16:11 → 16:2316:04138 min16:0419 min19 Mar
Delhi17:41 → 17:5316:0651 min16:07107 min20 Mar
Kolkata17:41 → 17:5315:226 min15:22145 min20 Mar
Singapore20:11 → 20:2316:500 min16:50145 min20 Mar
Sydney23:11 → 23:2316:430 min16:42146 min20 Mar
Suva00:11 → 00:2315:530 min15:52146 min20 Mar
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
holi@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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