Day of Monday 13 April
The transit does not fall in this day. Not taken.
06:09 sunrisenext sunrise 06:08
05:4509:4513:4517:4521:4501:4505:45
Does not fall in this day
Ruling · Vaiśākhī (Baisakhi) · 2026
Determinatein Ujjain, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 205 minutes.
A tick is five ghaṭīs, two hours. The day is sunrise to the next sunrise.
Day of Monday 13 April
The transit does not fall in this day. Not taken.
Does not fall in this day
Day of Tuesday 14 April
Taken. The transit falls in this day.
Falls in this day
Aṅga
The Sun enters Meṣa at 09:33 on Tue 14 Apr.
2026-04-14T04:02:39Z · nirayana, lahiri-iae1985
Kāla
The day runs from sunrise to the next sunrise: from 06:09 on the 13th, and from 06:08 on the 14th.
day: sunrise-to-sunrise · sunrise: upper limb, 31′ + 16′
Rule
The festival is kept on the day of the transit, the day counted from sunrise. The transit falls on the 14th, not the 13th.
Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 106
Tie-break
An instant falls in one day and no other. No tie-break is needed.
day counted from sunrise → only-day · margin 12300 s
Ruling
Vaiśākhī, Ujjain, 2026: Tuesday 14 April.
confidence: determinate
In Ujjain, Vaiśākhī (Baisakhi) 2026 falls on Tuesday 14 April. The Sun enters Meṣa at 09:33 on Tue 14 Apr, and the rule counts the day from sunrise.
| Authority | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Ahargaṇa, pac-rp | This ruling | Tue 14 Apr |
| Ahargaṇa, classical | Disc centre, no refraction | Tue 14 Apr |
| compat-drikpanchang | Comparison profile | Tue 14 Apr |
| Counted from midnight | CRC 1955, p. 106 | Tue 14 Apr |
| Past sunset, the next day (the Tamil rule) | CRC 1955, p. 244 | Tue 14 Apr |
| Rashtriya Panchang | Principal festivals, 2025-26 | Tue 14 Apr |
Institutional rulings are recorded with a source address, and are never edited to agree.
/rules/vaishakhi · ruleset 2026.3-draft
“Mesadi — Cadaka puja (Bengal), Bahag Bihu (Assam), Cheiraoba (Manipur), Visu (T. C. State), Vaisakhi (on the samkramana day commencing from sunrise).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 106. “The following festivals are observed according to the day of Sun's transit into rasis (Ravi-samkramana). For this purpose the day has been taken to begin from midnight, i.e., when the samkramana takes place after midnight, the festival relating to the samkramana is to be observed on the following day.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 106. The other names in the row (Cadaka puja, Bahag Bihu, Cheiraoba, Visu) are regional observances and wait with the regional rows.
Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.
| Place | Sun enters Meṣa | Sunrise 14th | Covered | Sunrise 15th | Covered | Ruled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles | 21:03 | 06:23 | no | 06:22 | no | 13 Apr |
| Chicago | 23:03 | 06:12 | no | 06:10 | no | 13 Apr |
| Jersey City | 00:03 | 06:19 | no | 06:18 | no | 13 Apr |
| Port of Spain | 00:03 | 05:56 | no | 05:55 | no | 13 Apr |
| London | 05:03 | 06:07 | no | 06:05 | no | 13 Apr |
| Durban | 06:03 | 06:14 | no | 06:15 | no | 13 Apr |
| Dubai | 08:03 | 05:58 | falls | 05:57 | no | 14 Apr |
| Delhi | 09:33 | 05:57 | falls | 05:56 | no | 14 Apr |
| Kolkata | 09:33 | 05:18 | falls | 05:17 | no | 14 Apr |
| Singapore | 12:03 | 07:01 | falls | 07:01 | no | 14 Apr |
| Sydney | 14:03 | 06:17 | falls | 06:18 | no | 14 Apr |
| Suva | 16:03 | 06:16 | falls | 06:16 | no | 14 Apr |