Ruling · Skanda Ṣaṣṭhī (Jyaiṣṭha) · 2026

Saturday 20 June

Determinatein Ujjain, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 175 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 Friday 19 June

Ṣaṣṭhī 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 Saturday 20 June

Taken. The only midday Ṣaṣṭhī reaches.

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

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 17:00 on Fri 19 Jun to 15:47 on Sat 20 Jun.

    2026-06-19T11:30:21Z → 2026-06-20T10:17:10Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:04–12:52 on the 19th, 12:04–12:52 on the 20th.

    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 19th and 48 of 48 on the 20th.

    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 10483 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Skanda Ṣaṣṭhī (Jyaiṣṭha), Ujjain, 2026: Saturday 20 June.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Ujjain, Skanda Ṣaṣṭhī (Jyaiṣṭha) 2026 falls on Saturday 20 June. Ṣaṣṭhī runs from 17:00 on Fri 19 Jun to 15:47 on Sat 20 Jun and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/ujjain/festivals/2026/skanda-shashthi-jyaishtha · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 20 Jun
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 20 Jun
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 20 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 19thCoveredMadhyāhna 20thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles04:30 → 03:1712:3048 min12:310 min19 Jun
Chicago06:30 → 05:1712:2848 min12:280 min19 Jun
Jersey City07:30 → 06:1712:3448 min12:340 min19 Jun
Port of Spain07:30 → 06:1711:4348 min11:440 min19 Jun
London12:30 → 11:1712:3848 min12:380 min19 Jun
Durban13:30 → 12:1711:330 min11:3344 min20 Jun
Dubai15:30 → 14:1711:560 min11:5648 min20 Jun
Delhi17:00 → 15:4711:580 min11:5948 min20 Jun
Kolkata17:00 → 15:4711:140 min11:1448 min20 Jun
Singapore19:30 → 18:1712:420 min12:4248 min20 Jun
Sydney21:30 → 20:1711:320 min11:3348 min20 Jun
Suva23:30 → 22:1711:440 min11:4448 min20 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