Ruling · Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) · 2026

Thursday 19 November

Determinatein Suva, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 174 minutes.

Decide it for

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18°08′ S 178°26′ E · Pacific/Fiji · GeoNames 2198148

The two forenoons

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

Forenoon of Wednesday 18 November

Navamī is absent from pūrvāhṇa. Not taken.

05:22 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 09:42
04:5805:4606:3407:2208:1008:5809:46

0 of 260 minutes covered

Forenoon of Thursday 19 November

Taken. The only forenoon Navamī reaches.

05:22 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 09:42
04:5805:4606:3407:2208:1008:5809:46

260 of 260 minutes covered

Navamī presentPūrvāhṇa, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Navamī runs from 12:36 on Wed 18 Nov to 13:37 on Thu 19 Nov.

    2026-11-18T00:35:40Z → 2026-11-19T01:36:43Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas: 05:22–09:42 on the 18th, 05:22–09:42 on the 19th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Navamī must be present during pūrvāhṇa. It covers 0 of 260 minutes on the 18th and 260 of 260 on the 19th.

    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 10447 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Akṣaya Navamī, Suva, 2026: Thursday 19 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Suva, Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) 2026 falls on Thursday 19 November. Navamī runs from 12:36 on Wed 18 Nov to 13:37 on Thu 19 Nov and covers all of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon.

ahargana.org/suva/festivals/2026/akshaya-navami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 19 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 19 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 19 Nov
No institution has a recorded ruling for Suva.

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

The rule, as data

/rules/akshaya-navami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

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

“S 9 Aksaya navami (purvahnavyapini), Jagaddhatri puja (Bengal), (udayavyapini one muhurta), Anla navami (Orissa), Durga navami (purvaviddha), Gauri vrata.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceNavamīSunrise 18thCoveredSunrise 19thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles16:36 → 17:3706:29206 min06:300 min18 Nov
Chicago18:36 → 19:3706:44194 min06:450 min18 Nov
Jersey City19:36 → 20:3706:47196 min06:480 min18 Nov
Port of Spain20:36 → 21:3706:03232 min06:030 min18 Nov
London00:36 → 01:3707:24174 min07:260 min18 Nov
Durban02:36 → 03:3704:51274 min04:510 min18 Nov
Dubai04:36 → 05:3706:38217 min06:380 min18 Nov
Delhi06:06 → 07:0706:46213 min06:4720 min18 Nov
Kolkata06:06 → 07:0705:51206 min05:5275 min18 Nov
Singapore08:36 → 09:3706:48134 min06:48168 min19 Nov
Sydney11:36 → 12:3705:420 min05:42279 min19 Nov
Suva12:36 → 13:3705:220 min05:22260 min19 Nov
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
akshaya-navami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s