India GOFestivals of Delhi
💃 Navratri
Delhi keeps Navratri in two registers: queues from before dawn at the goddess temples of Jhandewalan, Kalkaji and Chhatarpur, and Ramlila stages by the Red Fort every evening, building to Dussehra.
📅 11 October 2026
🔥 Dussehra
Delhi burns Ravana on dozens of grounds at once, from the star-studded Ramlilas by the Red Fort to the old one at Ramlila Maidan, after ten or more nights of the Ramayana on the same stages.
📅 20 October 2026
🌅 Chhath Puja
By sheer count Delhi's Chhath is vast: well over a thousand ghats, most built for the week, along both banks of the Yamuna from Palla to Okhla and out into parks and ponds across the city.
📅 13 November 2026
🪯 Guru Nanak Jayanti
Delhi runs the full three-day arc of the gurpurab: a forty-eight-hour Akhand Path, a Nagar Kirtan that crosses the old city the day before, and langar served without a break.
📅 24 November 2026
🐒 Hanuman Jayanti
Delhi's Hanuman Jayanti is a temple day rather than a destination, anchored on the Prachin Hanuman Mandir at Connaught Place, which already runs on Tuesday and Saturday crowds all year.
📅 22 December 2026
Lohri
In Delhi, Lohri is a courtyard and rooftop festival held inside residential colonies rather than a public spectacle with a programme to attend.
📅 13 January 2027
🇮🇳 Republic Day
The one state occasion in India that behaves like a bookable event: the Ministry of Defence sells numbered-enclosure tickets on its own portal for a fixed ten-day window in early January, and the same parade runs as a free-pass Full Dress Rehearsal three days earlier.
📅 26 January 2027
Basant at Nizamuddin Dargah
On Vasant Panchami the qawwals of Hazrat Nizamuddin's dargah dress in yellow, carry mustard flowers into the shrine and sing Amir Khusrau's spring verses from about 16:00 to 19:00.
📅 11 February 2027
🌙 Eid al-Fitr
The month before Eid is the event: the lanes off Jama Masjid's Gate 1 run from the breaking of the fast at sunset until roughly three or four in the morning for all thirty nights, and then Eid day itself moves indoors by mid-morning.
📅 10 March 2027
🌾 Vaisakhi
In Delhi Vaisakhi is a gurdwara day: kirtan from dawn at Bangla Sahib and Sis Ganj Sahib, devotees at the sarovar, and langar kitchens serving everyone who sits down.
📅 14 April 2027
Eid al-Adha
In Old Delhi Eid al-Adha begins at dawn in the courtyard of the Jama Masjid, where thousands pray at once, and carries on through the day in the lanes and sweet shops around it.
📅 17 May 2027
☸️ Buddha Purnima
Delhi keeps Buddha Purnima quietly in a ridge-forest park: prayers under a Bodhi tree grown from a Sri Lankan sapling, beside a gilded Buddha dedicated by the Dalai Lama in 1993.
📅 20 May 2027
🕊️ Independence Day
The Red Fort ceremony can be attended on an admit card from the Ministry of Defence portal, but what actually shapes a Delhi trip is that the fort closes to visitors for the month before 15 August.
📅 15 August 2027
🪢 Raksha Bandhan
The rakhi is tied at home, so what Delhi shows is the run-up: Sadar Bazaar and Chandni Chowk hung with thousands of rakhis, and Old Delhi's sweet shops at full stretch.
📅 17 August 2027
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