Ruling · Ṛṣi Pañcamī · 2025

Thursday 28 August

Determinatein Ujjain, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 173 minutes.

Decide it for

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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 Wednesday 27 August

Pañcamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 12:04  12:52 madhyāhna ends
11:1611:4012:0412:2812:5213:1613:40

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Thursday 28 August

Taken. The only midday Pañcamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 12:04  12:52 madhyāhna ends
11:1611:4012:0412:2812:5213:1613:40

48 of 48 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pañcamī runs from 15:45 on Wed 27 Aug to 17:57 on Thu 28 Aug.

    2025-08-27T10:14:55Z → 2025-08-28T12:27:26Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:04–12:52 on the 27th, 12:04–12:52 on the 28th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pañcamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 27th and 48 of 48 on the 28th.

    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: disputed → only-day · margin 10359 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Ṛṣi Pañcamī, Ujjain, 2025: Thursday 28 August.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Ujjain, Ṛṣi Pañcamī 2025 falls on Thursday 28 August. Pañcamī runs from 15:45 on Wed 27 Aug to 17:57 on Thu 28 Aug and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/ujjain/festivals/2025/rishi-panchami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 28 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 28 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 28 Aug
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/rishi-panchami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

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

“S 5 Rsi pancami (madhyahnavyapini) — If occurs on two successive days, it is to be observed according to Madhava on the 1st day and according to Hemadri and Divodasa on the 2nd day” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePañcamīMadhyāhna 27thCoveredMadhyāhna 28thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles03:15 → 05:2712:3048 min12:300 min27 Aug
Chicago05:15 → 07:2712:2848 min12:270 min27 Aug
Jersey City06:15 → 08:2712:3348 min12:330 min27 Aug
Port of Spain06:15 → 08:2711:4348 min11:430 min27 Aug
London11:15 → 13:2712:3748 min12:3748 min27 Aug
Durban12:15 → 14:2711:347 min11:3348 min28 Aug
Dubai14:15 → 16:2711:560 min11:5648 min28 Aug
Delhi15:45 → 17:5711:580 min11:5848 min28 Aug
Kolkata15:45 → 17:5711:140 min11:1448 min28 Aug
Singapore18:15 → 20:2712:420 min12:4248 min28 Aug
Sydney20:15 → 22:2711:330 min11:3348 min28 Aug
Suva22:15 → 00:2711:440 min11:4448 min28 Aug
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
rishi-panchami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s