Indian Festival Calendar

The world’s largest democracy India is a multicultural society with many religions. Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Muslims, Christians and Jain’s celebrate their festivals in India.     Throughout India holidays and festivals of most religions are celebrated depending on the demographics of the area. For instance the festival of Baisakhi is predominantly a festival associated with Punjab. While Baisakhi is celebrated by Hindus all over India on April 13th it is celebrated with a lot of fanfare in the province of Punjab.

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January 2015

  01 Thursday New Year 05 Sunday Guru Gobind Singh Jayanti   13 Tuesday Lohri   14 Wednesday Makar Sankranti   26        Monday Republic Day   24 Saturday             Basant Panchami

February 2015

14 Saturday Valentines Day 17       Tuesday Maha-Shivratri

 March 2015

 06 Friday Holi   21 Saturday Navroz 21 Saturday Gudi Padva 28 Saturday Ram Navami

April 2015

02       Thursday            Mahavir Jayanti   03 Friday Hanuman Jayanti   13 Monday Baisakhi    

May 2015 

04 Monday Buddha Jayanti 05 Tuesday Teachers Day 10 Sunday Mothers Day

June 2015 

21 Sunday Father's Day   

July 2015

12 Saturday Guru Poornima 18 Sunday Id-UL-Fitr

August 2015

29       Saturday Rakhi or Raksha Bandhan 02 Sunday Friendship Day 15 Sunday Independence Day

September 2015

05 Saturday Sri Krishna Janmashtami  17 Thursday Ganesh Chaturathi

October 2015

02 Friday Gandhi Jayanti 13 Tuesday Navratri Begins 21 October Navratri Ends 22 Thursday Dusshera 26 Monday Lakshmi Pooja 30 Friday Karva Chauth 31 Saturday Halloween  

November 2015 

08 Sunday Dhan Teras 11 Wednesday Diwali 25 Wednesday Guru Nanak Jayanthi  

December 2015 

06 Sunday Hanukkah Begins 14 Monday Hanukkah Ends 25 Friday Christmas