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Fairs and Festivals in India

Bring together a billion people, speaking more than a thousand languages, following some half a dozen different religions and bound by countless traditions- and what will you get? India. A land so amazingly diverse that it’s really more a continent by itself than just a single country. India’s diversity reveals itself in many forms- in cuisine, clothing, language, arts and crafts- and festivals. And in a land as vast and complex as India, it would hardly be an exaggeration to say that every day is a holiday.

Everyday, somewhere or the other, in some corner of the country, people will dress in new clothes, sing and dance, worship, feast, rejoice- all to mark yet another festival. Whether it’s religious or secular, whether it marks the birth of a well-loved god or the beginning of the sowing season- a festival is more than just another day. It’s a time to forget the worries and cares of daily life; a time to celebrate and let your hair down.

Not just festivals, but a very important part of life for millions of Indians.

January

International Kite Festival, Gujarat
When : January 11 -13
Where : Ahmedabad (Gujarat)

Lohri
When : January 13
Where : Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, parts of Himachal Pradesh

Makar Sankranti
When : January 14
Where : Northern and Western India

Pongal
When : January 14
Where : Karnataka and Tamilnadu

Magh Bihu
When : January 14 -15
Where : Assam

Magh Mela
When : January 14 - March
Where : Allahabad

Great Elephant March
When : January 17 - 20
Where : Kerala

Eid Ul Zuha
When : January 21
Where : Nationwide

Bikaner Festival
When : January 24 -25
Where : Bikaner (Rajasthan)

Republic Day
When : January 26
Where : Nationwide

February

Surajkund Crafts Mela
When : February 1 - 15
Where : Surajkund (Haryana)

Carnival
When : February 6 - 8
Where : Goa

Muharram
When : February 9
Where : Nationwide

Desert Festival
When : February 10 - 12
Where : Jaisalmer (Rajasthan)

Basant Panchami
When : February 13
Where : Nationwide

Khajuraho Dance Festival
When : February 25 - March 3
Where : Khajuraho (Madhya Pradesh)

March

Maha Shivratri
When : March 8
Where : Nationwide

Elephant Festival
When : March 25
Where : Jaipur, Rajasthan

Holi
When : March 25
Where : Nationwide

Jamshed-e-Navroz
When : March 22
Where : Nationwide

Nauchandi Mela
When : March 27 - April 27
Where : Meerut, Uttar Pradesh

April

Gangaur
When : April 1 - 3
Where : Rajasthan

Ugadi
When : April 9
Where : Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka

Gudi Padva
When : April 9
Where : Maharashtra

Baisakhi
When : April 13
Where : Punjab

Good Friday and Easter
When : April 14 - 17
Where : Nationwide

Ram Navami
When : April 18
Where : Nationwide

Mahavir Jayanti
When : April 22
Where : Nationwide

Milad-un-Nabi
When : April 21
Where : Nationwide

May

Moatsu Mong
When : May 1- 3
Where : Nagaland (Ao tribe)

Sikkim Tourism Festival
When : May 1- 31
Where : Gangtok, Sikkim

Buddha Purnima
When : May 13
Where : Nationwide

June

Hemis Festival
When : June 9 - 28
Where : Hemis Gompa, Ladakh (Jammu and Kashmir)

July

Jagannath Yatra
When : July 8
Where : Puri (Orissa)

Teej
When : July 28 - 29
Where : Northern India

August

Nag Panchami
When : August
Where : Nationwide

Raksha Bandhan
When : August
Where : Nationwide

Independence Day
When : August 15
Where : Nationwide

Janmashtami
When : August 16
Where : Nationwide

Urs of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti
When : August
Where : Ajmer (Rajasthan)

Phoolwalon Ki Sair (Sair-e-Gulfaroshan)
When : August - September
Where : New Delhi

Ganesh Chaturthi
When : August 27
Where : Nationwide

September

Ladakh Festival
When : September 1-15
Where : Leh (Ladakh)

Onam
When : September 5
Where : Kerala

Durga Puja
When : September 29 - October 2
Where : West Bengal

October

Gandhi Jayanti
When : October 2 Where : Nationwide

Dussehra
When : No Fix Date
Where : Nationwide

Diwali
When : No Fix Date
Where : Nationwide

Bhai Dooj
When : No Fix Date
Where : Nationwide

Eid ul Fitr
When : October 22 - 24
Where : Nationwide

November

Pushkar Fair
When : November 2 - 5
Where : Pushkar (Rajasthan)

Gurunanak Jayanti
When : November 5
Where : Nationwide

December

Christmas Day
When : December 25
Where : Nationwide

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