Ruling · Durgā Saptamī · 2024

Thursday 10 October

Determinatein Ujjain, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 306 minutes.

Decide it for

23°11′ N 75°47′ E · Asia/Kolkata · GeoNames 1253914

The two mornings

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. The first muhūrta after sunrise is 1st of 15 day muhūrtas.

Morning of Wednesday 9 October

Saptamī is absent from the first muhūrta after sunrise. Not taken.

sunrise 06:22  07:09 one muhūrta on
05:3405:5806:2206:4607:1007:3407:58

0 of 47 minutes covered

Morning of Thursday 10 October

Taken. The only morning Saptamī reaches.

sunrise 06:22  07:09 one muhūrta on
05:3405:5806:2206:4607:1007:3407:58

47 of 47 minutes covered

Saptamī presentThe first muhūrta after sunrise, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Saptamī runs from 12:15 on Wed 9 Oct to 12:32 on Thu 10 Oct.

    2024-10-09T06:44:58Z → 2024-10-10T07:02:15Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The first muhūrta after sunrise is 1st of 15 day muhūrtas: 06:22–07:09 on the 9th, 06:22–07:09 on the 10th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Saptamī must hold through the first muhūrta after sunrise. It covers 0 of 47 minutes on the 9th and 47 of 47 on the 10th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: paraviddha → only-day · margin 18378 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Durgā Saptamī, Ujjain, 2024: Thursday 10 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Ujjain, Durgā Saptamī 2024 falls on Thursday 10 October. Saptamī runs from 12:15 on Wed 9 Oct to 12:32 on Thu 10 Oct and covers all of the first muhūrta after sunrise that morning.

ahargana.org/ujjain/festivals/2024/durga-saptami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 10 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 10 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 10 Oct
Rashtriya PanchangPrincipal festivals, 2024-25Thu 10 Oct

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

The rule, as data

/rules/durga-saptami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Āśvina, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Saptamī
Kāla
The first muhūrta after sunrise
Priority
Paraviddhā
Tie-break
Second day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 104

“S 7 Durga saptami (paraviddha) — covering one muhurta from sunrise” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceSaptamīSunrise 9thCoveredSunrise 10thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles23:45 → 00:0206:5446 min06:550 min9 Oct
Chicago01:45 → 02:0206:5745 min06:580 min9 Oct
Jersey City02:45 → 03:0207:0245 min07:030 min9 Oct
Port of Spain02:45 → 03:0205:5548 min05:550 min9 Oct
London07:45 → 08:0207:1515 min07:1744 min10 Oct
Durban08:45 → 09:0205:250 min05:2351 min10 Oct
Dubai10:45 → 11:0206:150 min06:1547 min10 Oct
Delhi12:15 → 12:3206:190 min06:1946 min10 Oct
Kolkata12:15 → 12:3205:310 min05:3147 min10 Oct
Singapore14:45 → 15:0206:490 min06:4948 min10 Oct
Sydney17:45 → 18:0206:220 min06:2051 min10 Oct
Suva18:45 → 19:0205:420 min05:4150 min10 Oct
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
durga-saptami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s