🗓️ Festival calendar

When is Diwali, Holi or Navratri? Indian festivals and the public holidays of the Netherlands and India, for years ahead.

Click a festival or holiday for background on Wikipedia.

The coming months

• Sun, 15 November 2026 Chhath Puja Sun festival from Bihar.
• Tue, 24 November 2026 Guru Nanak Jayanti Birthday of the founder of Sikhism.
• Fri, 25 December 2026 Christmas Day Netherlands
• Sat, 26 December 2026 Boxing Day Netherlands
• Fri, 1 January 2027 New Year's Day Netherlands
• Thu, 14 January 2027 Makar Sankranti, Pongal and Lohri Harvest festival; the sun turns north.
• Tue, 26 January 2027 Republic Day India
• Thu, 11 February 2027 Vasant Panchami Start of spring, dedicated to Saraswati.
• Sat, 6 March 2027 Maha Shivaratri The great night of Shiva.
• Tue, 23 March 2027 Holi (Phagwa) Festival of colours and spring.
• Fri, 26 March 2027 Good Friday Netherlands
• Sun, 28 March 2027 Easter Sunday Netherlands
• Mon, 29 March 2027 Easter Monday Netherlands
• Wed, 7 April 2027 Ugadi and Gudi Padwa New Year in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra and elsewhere.
• Wed, 14 April 2027 Vaisakhi, Tamil New Year and Vishu Sikh festival and solar New Year.
• Thu, 15 April 2027 Rama Navami Birthday of Rama.
• Sun, 18 April 2027 Mahavir Jayanti The main Jain festival.
• Tue, 27 April 2027 King's Day Netherlands
• Wed, 5 May 2027 Liberation Day Netherlands
• Thu, 6 May 2027 Ascension Day Netherlands
• Sun, 16 May 2027 Whit Sunday Netherlands
• Mon, 17 May 2027 Whit Monday Netherlands
• Thu, 20 May 2027 Buddha Purnima Birthday of the Buddha.
• Mon, 5 July 2027 Rath Yatra Chariot festival of Jagannath.
• Sun, 15 August 2027 Independence Day India
• Tue, 17 August 2027 Raksha Bandhan Festival of brothers and sisters.
• Tue, 24 August 2027 Krishna Janmashtami Birthday of Krishna.
• Fri, 3 September 2027 Ganesh Chaturthi Festival of Ganesha.
• Sun, 12 September 2027 Onam Harvest festival of Kerala.
• Thu, 30 September 2027 Navratri (start) Nine nights for the goddess, with garba and Durga Puja.
• Sat, 2 October 2027 Gandhi Jayanti India
• Sat, 9 October 2027 Dussehra (Vijayadashami) Victory of good over evil.
• Fri, 29 October 2027 Diwali Festival of lights.
• Sun, 31 October 2027 Bhai Dooj Closes the Diwali days.
• Thu, 4 November 2027 Chhath Puja Sun festival from Bihar.

Indian festivals by year

Public holidays by year

The dates of Indian festivals are calculated from the positions of the sun and moon, for Indian time. Depending on region, tradition or temple a festival can fall a day earlier or later; check with your own community. Islamic holidays depend on the sighting of the moon and are therefore not in this calendar. In India, public holidays also differ by state, and in the Netherlands not everyone has Good Friday and Liberation Day off.