Rang Panchami dates (popular practice)

In Delhi: Saturday, 27 March 2027, Wednesday, 15 March 2028 and Sunday, 4 March 2029. Each city keeps its own day by its own sunrise.

By our rule, which is popular practice. Rang Panchami is the day whose sunrise falls in the dark Pañcamī after Holī. When no sunrise falls in it, it is the day on which the Pañcamī falls; when two sunrises do, it is the first of them. In 2029 in Delhi, the Pañcamī runs from Sun 4 Mar, 08:28 to Mon 5 Mar, 05:40, so it holds neither Sunday’s sunrise nor Monday’s, and Rang Panchami is kept on Sunday, the day on which it falls.

The Dharmasindhu gives Holī’s colour festival on the dark Dvitīyā and says that ordinary people now keep it up to the dark Pañcamī, without naming that day or giving it a rule. An Indian Ephemeris (1922) and the Poona Gazetteer (1885) describe the dark Pañcamī as the day “when colours are thrown about” and as the end of the Holī. Dharmasindhu p. 95

The Pañcamī begins and ends at the same moment everywhere, but sunrise comes at a different hour in each city, so the sunrise that falls in it can change with the place. Delhi, Indore, Pune, Ulhasnagar and Jaipur keep the same day in every year from 2005 to 2035.