India GOFestivals of Jaipur
Diwali
Jaipur's walled-city bazaars light their arcades and compete for the best display (Johari Bazaar won in 2025, Tripolia came second), and the evenings turn into a long walk under lights.
📅 6 November 2026
Makar Sankranti
On Makar Sankranti the whole of Jaipur's walled city moves up one storey: the official kite festival runs on the Jal Mahal embankment, but the day itself belongs to the rooftops.
📅 14 January 2027
Jaipur Literature Festival
Five days of talks with writers, historians and translators on parallel stages, with a bookshop, signing queues and evening concerts; recent editions have been at Hotel Clarks Amer.
📅 14 January 2027
Republic Day
Rajasthan's state Republic Day ceremony is held at Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur: the Governor unfurls the flag and takes the salute of a parade of uniformed contingents, followed by folk dance.
📅 26 January 2027
Holi
Jaipur keeps two Holis: flower Holi at Govind Dev Ji in the City Palace complex around Holika Dahan, and on the colour day the Tourism Department's free party on the lawns of Hotel Khasa Kothi.
📅 21 March 2027
Gangaur
At Gangaur, Gauri leaves Jaipur's City Palace in a silver palanquin in the early evening and is carried through the old bazaars to Talkatora, with some two hundred folk performers around her.
📅 9 April 2027
Teej Festival, Jaipur
On Hariyali Teej the goddess's palanquin leaves Jaipur's City Palace in the late afternoon with folk troupes from across Rajasthan; a second procession, Budhi Teej, follows the next day.
📅 4 August 2027
Raksha Bandhan
In Jaipur the thread comes in pairs: besides the rakhi for the brother, Marwari families tie a lumba to his wife's bangle, and the walled-city bazaars sell both by the thousand.
📅 17 August 2027
Navratri
Jaipur's Navratri runs from the goddess of the Amer rulers to roadside camps building bamboo effigies, and ends on Dussehra with a Ravana some hundred feet tall burning on the Adarsh Nagar ground.
📅 30 September 2027
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