Ruling · Rādhāṣṭamī · 2024

Wednesday 11 September

Determinatein Ujjain, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 625 minutes.

Decide it for

UjjainDelhiKolkataSingaporeSydneyJersey City

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 Tuesday 10 September

Aṣṭamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 12:00  12:48 madhyāhna ends
11:1211:3612:0012:2412:4813:1213:36

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Wednesday 11 September

Taken. The only midday Aṣṭamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:59  12:47 madhyāhna ends
11:1111:3511:5912:2312:4713:1113:35

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 23:13 on Tue 10 Sep to 23:47 on Wed 11 Sep.

    2024-09-10T17:42:31Z → 2024-09-11T18:17:05Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:00–12:48 on the 10th, 11:59–12:47 on the 11th.

    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 10th and 48 of 48 on the 11th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 37495 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Rādhāṣṭamī, Ujjain, 2024: Wednesday 11 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Ujjain, Rādhāṣṭamī 2024 falls on Wednesday 11 September. Aṣṭamī runs from 23:13 on Tue 10 Sep to 23:47 on Wed 11 Sep and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

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

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 11 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 11 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 11 Sep
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/radhashtami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Bhādrapada, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Aṣṭamī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 103

“S 8 Durvastami (purvaviddha — S 8 of saura Bhadra except Bengal), Mahalaksmi vratarambha, Radhastami (madhyahna vyapini)” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceAṣṭamīMadhyāhna 10thCoveredMadhyāhna 11thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles10:43 → 11:1712:2548 min12:250 min10 Sep
Chicago12:43 → 13:1712:2328 min12:2348 min11 Sep
Jersey City13:43 → 14:1712:290 min12:2848 min11 Sep
Port of Spain13:43 → 14:1711:390 min11:3848 min11 Sep
London18:43 → 19:1712:330 min12:3248 min11 Sep
Durban19:43 → 20:1711:290 min11:2948 min11 Sep
Dubai21:43 → 22:1711:510 min11:5148 min11 Sep
Delhi23:13 → 23:4711:540 min11:5348 min11 Sep
Kolkata23:13 → 23:4711:090 min11:0948 min11 Sep
Singapore01:43 → 02:1712:370 min12:3748 min11 Sep
Sydney03:43 → 04:1711:280 min11:2848 min11 Sep
Suva05:43 → 06:1711:390 min11:3948 min11 Sep
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
radhashtami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s