Midday of Tuesday 20 October
Daśamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.
madhyāhna begins 11:27 12:15 madhyāhna ends
10:3911:0311:2711:5112:1512:3913:03
0 of 48 minutes covered
Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2026
Determinatein Suva, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 73 minutes.
One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.
Midday of Tuesday 20 October
Daśamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.
0 of 48 minutes covered
Midday of Wednesday 21 October
Taken. The only midday Daśamī reaches.
48 of 48 minutes covered
Aṅga
Daśamī runs from 19:21 on Tue 20 Oct to 20:42 on Wed 21 Oct.
2026-10-20T07:20:56Z → 2026-10-21T08:42:23Z
Kāla
Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:27–12:15 on the 20th, 11:27–12:15 on the 21st.
madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′
Rule
Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time on neither day, so the rest of the rule applies. Daśamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 20th and 48 of 48 on the 21st.
Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104
Tie-break
Only one midday qualifies. No tie-break is needed.
priority: unstated → only-day · margin 4363 s
Ruling
Vijayā Daśamī, Suva, 2026: Wednesday 21 October.
confidence: determinate
In Suva, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2026 falls on Wednesday 21 October. Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time on neither day, so madhyāhna decides. Daśamī runs from 19:21 on Tue 20 Oct to 20:42 on Wed 21 Oct and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.
| Authority | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Ahargaṇa, pac-rp | This ruling | Wed 21 Oct |
| Ahargaṇa, classical | Disc centre, no refraction | Wed 21 Oct |
| compat-drikpanchang | Comparison profile | Wed 21 Oct |
| No institution has a recorded ruling for Suva. | ||
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 | Madhyāhna 20th | Covered | Madhyāhna 21st | Covered | Ruled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles | 00:21 → 01:42 | 12:13 | 48 min | 12:13 | 0 min | 20 Oct |
| Chicago | 02:21 → 03:42 | 12:11 | 48 min | 12:11 | 0 min | 20 Oct |
| Jersey City | 03:21 → 04:42 | 12:17 | 48 min | 12:17 | 0 min | 20 Oct |
| Port of Spain | 03:21 → 04:42 | 11:27 | 48 min | 11:27 | 0 min | 20 Oct |
| London | 08:21 → 09:42 | 12:21 | 48 min | 12:21 | 0 min | 20 Oct |
| Durban | 09:21 → 10:42 | 11:17 | 48 min | 11:17 | 0 min | 20 Oct |
| Dubai | 11:21 → 12:42 | 11:39 | 48 min | 11:39 | 48 min | 20 Oct |
| Delhi | 12:51 → 14:12 | 11:42 | 0 min | 11:42 | 48 min | 20 Oct |
| Kolkata | 12:51 → 14:12 | 10:57 | 0 min | 10:57 | 48 min | 20 Oct |
| Singapore | 15:21 → 16:42 | 12:25 | 0 min | 12:25 | 48 min | 20 Oct |
| Sydney | 18:21 → 19:42 | 12:16 | 0 min | 12:16 | 48 min | 20 Oct |
| Suva | 19:21 → 20:42 | 11:27 | 0 min | 11:27 | 48 min | 21 Oct |