Festival calendar — Visit India
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Almanac of feasts

The festival year

Most of these follow the lunar calendar, so the Gregorian date shifts by a fortnight or more each year. Dates given are for 2026–27; confirm locally before you book anything around them.

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Festivals

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What a festival looks like

Colour, crowds and light — the four scenes that repeat across almost every festival on this calendar, wherever in the country you catch one.

  • A woman in a gold and red sari Festival dress North India
  • A group of people inside a temple during the day A working temple Tamil Nadu
  • A flag hanging from a pole Flags and banners India
  • A palace lit at night Lit after dark Rajasthan

Photographs: Sonika Agarwal, Mitchell Ng Liang an, Naveed Ahmed, Sylwia Bartyzel / Unsplash

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Crowds and colour

Ten frames of festival India

Dress, temples, banners and lit facades — the visual grammar every festival on this calendar shares.

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