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A calendar of the planet's oldest, loudest and most beautiful obligations.
Festivals are not decoration. They are how a culture tells itself what matters — when to fast, when to feast, when to burn the old year and when to welcome the dead home for dinner. The Hub indexes them properly: verified dates for 2026 and 2027, live countdowns, and the reasoning behind every one.
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Festival calendars, month by month
Every date in one table, with the Indian festival list on its own and a one-click download for your calendar app.
🇮🇳 All 20 Indian festivals →Popular festival dates
- Diwali 2027 date27 October 2027
- Holi 2027 date21 March 2027
- Navratri 2027 date30 September 2027
- Durga Puja 2027 date5 October 2027
- Chhath Puja 2026 date13 November 2026
- Raksha Bandhan 2027 date17 August 2027
- Ganesh Chaturthi 2027 date4 September 2027
- Krishna Janmashtami 2027 date25 August 2027
- Karwa Chauth 2027 date18 October 2027
- Eid al-Fitr 2027 date9 March 2027
- Ramadan 2027 date8 February 2027
- Eid al-Adha 2027 date16 May 2027
- Christmas 2026 date27 November 2026
- Chinese New Year 2027 date6 February 2027
- Easter 2027 date21 March 2027
- Hanukkah 2026 date5 December 2026
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Rio Carnival
A city that stops working and starts dancing.
- Dates
- 5 February – 9 February 2027
- Location
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Duration
- 5 days
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The Sambadrome turns into a 700-metre proving ground where twelve samba schools spend a year's budget on ninety seconds of your attention.
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Find your next celebration
Every festival in the hub is filed four ways — where it happens, the tradition it belongs to, the kind of celebration it is, and when it lands.
- Brazil1 festival
- China2 festivals
- Ethiopia1 festival
- Germany2 festivals
- Hong Kong1 festival
- India20 festivals
- Iran1 festival
- Ireland1 festival
- Israel2 festivals
- Italy1 festival
- Japan4 festivals
- Mexico1 festival
- Peru1 festival
- Saudi Arabia1 festival
- Spain4 festivals
- Sri Lanka1 festival
- Sweden1 festival
- Taiwan1 festival
- Thailand3 festivals
- Türkiye2 festivals
- United Kingdom6 festivals
- United States4 festivals
Editors' picks
Spectacle, fire and noise
The ones that are hardest to photograph and impossible to forget.
Festival culture
Six things every festival is made of
Strip away the ticket price and the logistics and the same six ingredients keep turning up — in Mathura and in Lerwick, in a Mongolian winter and a Scottish one.
Traditions
The rules are the ritual
Holika Dahan — the bonfire lit at dusk on the eve of the full moon. Lathmar Holi — women of Barsana chase men with sticks, who answer with shields. Every tradition on this list is a choreography that someone has to learn — and most of them are older than the countries they take place in.
- 01Holika Dahan — the bonfire lit at dusk on the eve of the full moon.
- 02Rangapanchami — the second morning, when dry powder replaces water entirely.
- 03Lathmar Holi — women of Barsana chase men with sticks, who answer with shields.
- 04Thandai — a cold milk drink spiked with almond, rose and, in places, cannabis.
Food
A festival is a menu
Baklava, şekerpare and Turkish delight, offered to every single visitor. Festivals are when a cuisine shows its full range: the dishes that take three days, the ones reserved for guests, and the fried dough that only exists for nine days a year.
- 01Baklava, şekerpare and Turkish delight, offered to every single visitor.
- 02Ramadan pide, soups, and the lamb that has been reserved for this morning.
Music
Tempo is a form of control
Brass band repertoire is functionally a tempo control system. Kapellen hold 8,000 drinkers at roughly 112 bpm, dropping to a waltz whenever the tent needs to recover.
Read the full storyReligion
Why this date, and not another
Diwali is observed by Hindus, Jains, Sikhs and some Buddhists, each with a different reason and the same date — an unusual example of one night doing several kinds of theological work at once.
Read the full storyHistory
How it survived being banned
The holiday's structure is Shang and Zhou dynasty in origin; the firecracker element arrived with gunpowder in the Tang. In 1912 the Republic tried to move the new year to 1 January. In 1928 it was banned outright, and reinstated in 1949 — by then the migration had become irreversible.
Read the full storyCelebrations
The crowd is the instrument
The water is originally a blessing — poured over the hands of elders and over Buddha images in temples. Chiang Mai escalated that into a city-wide water fight, and Khaosan Road in Bangkok followed, which is where most visitors encounter it first.
- 01Rod nam dam hua — pouring scented water over an elder's hands to ask for blessing.
- 02Bathing the Buddha — temple images ritually washed with jasmine water.
- 03Sand pagodas — carrying sand to the temple to replace the dirt carried out on your sandals.
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How are the festival dates on this page checked?
Every one of the 61 festivals has its 2026 and 2027 dates stored edition by edition, each with the source it was checked against (official organisers, government holiday lists, Drik Panchang, Hebcal, timeanddate). Lunar and moon-sighting dates are labelled "expected" because they can move by a day.
Why do Diwali, Holi and Eid fall on different dates every year?
They follow lunar or lunisolar calendars. Hindu festivals are fixed to a tithi (lunar day) of a Hindu month, and Islamic festivals begin when the new crescent moon is sighted, so their Gregorian dates drift by 10 to 20 days a year.
Can I add festivals to my phone calendar?
Yes. Every festival page has an Add to calendar button for Google Calendar or an .ics file for Apple Calendar and Outlook, with a reminder the day before. The 2026 and 2027 calendar pages can download the whole year in one file.
Which Indian festivals are listed?
20 Indian festivals, including Holi, Diwali, Navratri, Durga Puja, Dussehra, Ganesh Chaturthi, Janmashtami, Raksha Bandhan, Karwa Chauth, Chhath Puja, Makar Sankranti, Pongal, Lohri, Vaisakhi, Onam, Maha Shivratri, Ram Navami, Guru Nanak Jayanti, Rath Yatra and the Hornbill Festival.
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