Ruling · Gopāṣṭamī (Goṣṭhāṣṭamī) · 2024

Saturday 9 November

Determinatein Ujjain, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 611 minutes.

Decide it for

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

The two middays

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.

Midday of Friday 8 November

Aṣṭamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:47  12:35 madhyāhna ends
10:5911:2311:4712:1112:3512:5913:23

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Saturday 9 November

Taken. The only midday Aṣṭamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:47  12:35 madhyāhna ends
10:5911:2311:4712:1112:3512:5913:23

48 of 48 minutes covered

Aṣṭamī presentMadhyāhna, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Aṣṭamī runs from 23:57 on Fri 8 Nov to 22:46 on Sat 9 Nov.

    2024-11-08T18:26:59Z → 2024-11-09T17:15:42Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:47–12:35 on the 8th, 11:47–12:35 on the 9th.

    madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Aṣṭamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 8th and 48 of 48 on the 9th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 36666 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Gopāṣṭamī, Ujjain, 2024: Saturday 9 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Ujjain, Gopāṣṭamī 2024 falls on Saturday 9 November. Aṣṭamī runs from 23:57 on Fri 8 Nov to 22:46 on Sat 9 Nov and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

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

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 9 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 9 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 9 Nov
No institution has a recorded ruling for Ujjain.

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

The rule, as data

/rules/gopashtami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

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

“S 8 Gopastami, Gosthastami.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceAṣṭamīMadhyāhna 8thCoveredMadhyāhna 9thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles10:27 → 09:1611:1348 min11:130 min8 Nov
Chicago12:27 → 11:1611:100 min11:105 min9 Nov
Jersey City13:27 → 12:1611:160 min11:1648 min9 Nov
Port of Spain14:27 → 13:1611:260 min11:2648 min9 Nov
London18:27 → 17:1611:200 min11:2048 min9 Nov
Durban20:27 → 19:1611:160 min11:1648 min9 Nov
Dubai22:27 → 21:1611:380 min11:3848 min9 Nov
Delhi23:57 → 22:4611:410 min11:4148 min9 Nov
Kolkata23:57 → 22:4610:560 min10:5648 min9 Nov
Singapore02:27 → 01:1612:240 min12:2448 min9 Nov
Sydney05:27 → 04:1612:150 min12:1548 min9 Nov
Suva06:27 → 05:1611:260 min11:2648 min9 Nov
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
gopashtami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s