Ruling · Skanda Ṣaṣṭhī (Jyaiṣṭha) · 2025

Sunday 1 June

Determinatein Ujjain, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 431 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 Saturday 31 May

Ṣaṣṭhī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 12:01  12:49 madhyāhna ends
11:1311:3712:0112:2512:4913:1313:37

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Sunday 1 June

Taken. The only midday Ṣaṣṭhī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 12:01  12:49 madhyāhna ends
11:1311:3712:0112:2512:4913:1313:37

48 of 48 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Ṣaṣṭhī runs from 20:16 on Sat 31 May to 20:00 on Sun 1 Jun.

    2025-05-31T14:45:49Z → 2025-06-01T14:30:04Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:01–12:49 on the 31st, 12:01–12:49 on the 1st.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Ṣaṣṭhī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 31st and 48 of 48 on the 1st.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: purvaviddha → only-day · margin 25875 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Skanda Ṣaṣṭhī (Jyaiṣṭha), Ujjain, 2025: Sunday 1 June.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Ujjain, Skanda Ṣaṣṭhī (Jyaiṣṭha) 2025 falls on Sunday 1 June. Ṣaṣṭhī runs from 20:16 on Sat 31 May to 20:00 on Sun 1 Jun and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/ujjain/festivals/2025/skanda-shashthi-jyaishtha · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 1 Jun
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 1 Jun
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 1 Jun
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/skanda-shashthi-jyaishtha · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Jyeṣṭha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Ṣaṣṭhī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Pūrvaviddhā
Tie-break
First day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 102

“S 6 Aranya sasthi, Aranya gauri vrata, (paraviddha), Skanda sasthi, (purvaviddha), Sitala sasthi yatra (Orissa)” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceṢaṣṭhīMadhyāhna 31stCoveredMadhyāhna 1stCoveredRuled
Los Angeles07:46 → 07:3012:2748 min12:270 min31 May
Chicago09:46 → 09:3012:2548 min12:250 min31 May
Jersey City10:46 → 10:3012:3048 min12:300 min31 May
Port of Spain10:46 → 10:3011:4048 min11:400 min31 May
London15:46 → 15:3012:350 min12:3548 min1 Jun
Durban16:46 → 16:3011:300 min11:3048 min1 Jun
Dubai18:46 → 18:3011:530 min11:5348 min1 Jun
Delhi20:16 → 20:0011:550 min11:5548 min1 Jun
Kolkata20:16 → 20:0011:100 min11:1048 min1 Jun
Singapore22:46 → 22:3012:380 min12:3848 min1 Jun
Sydney00:46 → 00:3011:290 min11:2948 min1 Jun
Suva02:46 → 02:3011:400 min11:4048 min1 Jun
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
skanda-shashthi-jyaishtha@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s