Ruling · Akṣaya Tṛtīyā (Akha Teej) · 2026

Monday 20 April

Determinatein Ujjain, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 31 minutes.

Decide it for

UjjainDelhiKolkataSingaporeSydneyJersey City

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

The two forenoons

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas.

Forenoon of Sunday 19 April

Tṛtīyā is absent from pūrvāhṇa. Not taken.

06:03 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:19
Tṛtīyā begins 10:49:45
05:3906:2707:1508:0308:5109:3910:27

0 of 255 minutes covered

Forenoon of Monday 20 April

Taken. The only forenoon Tṛtīyā reaches.

06:02 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:18
Tṛtīyā ends 07:28:00
05:3806:2607:1408:0208:5009:3810:26

86 of 256 minutes covered, the first 86

Tṛtīyā presentPūrvāhṇa, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Tṛtīyā runs from 10:50 on Sun 19 Apr to 07:28 on Mon 20 Apr.

    2026-04-19T05:19:46Z → 2026-04-20T01:58:01Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas: 06:03–10:19 on the 19th, 06:02–10:18 on the 20th.

    purvahna: day-muhurta-1-5 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Tṛtīyā must be present during pūrvāhṇa. It covers 0 of 255 minutes on the 19th and 86 of 256 on the 20th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: paraviddha → only-day · margin 1871 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Akṣaya Tṛtīyā, Ujjain, 2026: Monday 20 April.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Ujjain, Akṣaya Tṛtīyā (Akha Teej) 2026 falls on Monday 20 April. Tṛtīyā runs from 10:50 on Sun 19 Apr to 07:28 on Mon 20 Apr and covers 86 of 256 minutes of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon.

ahargana.org/ujjain/festivals/2026/akshaya-tritiya · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 20 Apr
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 20 Apr
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 20 Apr
Rashtriya PanchangPrincipal festivals, 2025-26Mon 20 Apr

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

The rule, as data

/rules/akshaya-tritiya · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Vaiśākha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Tṛtīyā
Kāla
Pūrvāhṇa
Priority
Paraviddhā
Tie-break
Second day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 102

“S 3 Aksaya trtiya (purvahna vyapini, paraviddha) (Special when combined with Rohini naksatra and Wednesday), Candanayatra, Parasurama jayanti (pradosavyapini — if occurs on two successive days, the second day is to be observed).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102. The row calls the day special with Rohiṇī nakṣatra and a Wednesday; neither is tested.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceTṛtīyāSunrise 19thCoveredSunrise 20thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles22:20 → 18:5806:17263 min06:160 min19 Apr
Chicago00:20 → 20:5806:04271 min06:030 min19 Apr
Jersey City01:20 → 21:5806:12269 min06:100 min19 Apr
Port of Spain01:20 → 21:5805:53248 min05:530 min19 Apr
London06:20 → 02:5805:57259 min05:550 min19 Apr
Durban07:20 → 03:5806:17163 min06:180 min19 Apr
Dubai09:20 → 05:5805:5350 min05:526 min20 Apr
Delhi10:50 → 07:2805:520 min05:5197 min20 Apr
Kolkata10:50 → 07:2805:140 min05:13135 min20 Apr
Singapore13:20 → 09:5807:000 min06:59179 min20 Apr
Sydney15:20 → 11:5806:210 min06:21222 min20 Apr
Suva17:20 → 13:5806:170 min06:17232 min20 Apr
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
akshaya-tritiya@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s