Festivals 2028 · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Each festival is dated for this town from the Moon's phase (the tithi) at the time of day its tradition uses: sunrise for most, and midday, afternoon, evening or midnight for some. That is why a date can differ by a day from one town to another.

January 2028

Date	Festival	Lunar date
12 Jan 2028 Wednesday	Pausha Purnima the Magha bathing month opens	Pausha, shukla 15
14 Jan 2028 Friday	Makar Sankranti / Pongal / Uttarayan the Sun enters Makara; the only major festival fixed to the solar year, which is why it barely moves in the Gregorian calendar while the lunar ones swing by a month	Fixed by the Sun, not the Moon

February 2028

Date	Festival	Lunar date
01 Feb 2028 Tuesday	Vasant Panchami Saraswati, and the first of spring	Magha, shukla 5
23 Feb 2028 Wednesday	Maha Shivaratri kept through the night, so the date follows nishita and not sunrise - Phalguna Krishna 14 in the purnimanta reckoning	Magha, krishna 14

March 2028

Date	Festival	Lunar date
10 Mar 2028 Friday	Holika Dahan the bonfire is lit at pradosh, so the date follows the evening	Phalguna, shukla 15
11 Mar 2028 Saturday	Holi / Dhulandi the colours - always the day after the bonfire, which is why it is dated from Holika Dahan rather than from its own tithi at sunrise. Chaitra Krishna 1 in the purnimanta reckoning	Phalguna, shukla 15
18 Mar 2028 Saturday	Sheetala Ashtami (Basoda) worship of Sheetala Mata; food cooked the day before is eaten cold	Phalguna, krishna 8
27 Mar 2028 Monday	Ugadi / Gudi Padwa the lunar new year in the Deccan and Maharashtra	Chaitra, shukla 1
27 Mar 2028 Monday	Chaitra Navratri begins the first of the nine nights of the spring Navratri, with ghatasthapana in the morning	Chaitra, shukla 1
29 Mar 2028 Wednesday	Gangaur women's festival of Gauri and Shiva, the close of eighteen days of worship after Holi	Chaitra, shukla 3

April 2028

Date	Festival	Lunar date
04 Apr 2028 Tuesday	Rama Navami Rama's birth	Chaitra, shukla 9
07 Apr 2028 Friday	Mahavir Jayanti the birth of Mahavira, the twenty-fourth Jain Tirthankara	Chaitra, shukla 13
09 Apr 2028 Sunday	Hanuman Jayanti Hanuman's birth in most of north India	Chaitra, shukla 15
13 Apr 2028 Thursday	Mesha Sankranti / Baisakhi / Puthandu / Pohela Boishakh the Sun enters Mesha; the solar new year in Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Bengal, Kerala and Assam	Fixed by the Sun, not the Moon
27 Apr 2028 Thursday	Akshaya Tritiya held to need no muhurta of its own - the day is the muhurta	Vaisakha, shukla 3
27 Apr 2028 Thursday	Parashurama Jayanti the birth of Parashurama, the sixth avatar of Vishnu, kept at dusk	Vaisakha, shukla 3

May 2028

Date	Festival	Lunar date
03 May 2028 Wednesday	Sita Navami the birth of Sita, kept at midday	Vaisakha, shukla 9
07 May 2028 Sunday	Narasimha Jayanti Vishnu's appearance as Narasimha, which the story places at sunset	Vaisakha, shukla 14
08 May 2028 Monday	Buddha Purnima the Buddha's birth, waking and death	Vaisakha, shukla 15
24 May 2028 Wednesday	Shani Jayanti / Vat Savitri Vrat the birth of Shani; married women also fast and worship the banyan tree for their husbands	Vaisakha, krishna 15

June 2028

Date	Festival	Lunar date
02 Jun 2028 Friday	Ganga Dussehra the Ganga's descent	Jyeshtha, shukla 10
07 Jun 2028 Wednesday	Vat Purnima Vrat the banyan-tree fast for a husband's long life, kept on the full moon in the west and south	Jyeshtha, shukla 15
24 Jun 2028 Saturday	Rath Yatra Jagannath's chariot procession	Ashadha, shukla 2

July 2028

Date	Festival	Lunar date
02 Jul 2028 Sunday	Devshayani Ekadashi Vishnu is held to sleep from here to Kartika; no marriages in between	Ashadha, shukla 11
06 Jul 2028 Thursday	Guru Purnima honouring the teacher	Ashadha, shukla 15
24 Jul 2028 Monday	Hariyali Teej the monsoon festival of Parvati's union with Shiva; swings, green clothes and fasting	Shravana, shukla 3
26 Jul 2028 Wednesday	Nag Panchami the serpents	Shravana, shukla 5

August 2028

Date	Festival	Lunar date
05 Aug 2028 Saturday	Raksha Bandhan the thread between siblings	Shravana, shukla 15
08 Aug 2028 Tuesday	Kajari Teej a fast by married women for their husbands, with songs of the rains	Shravana, krishna 3
13 Aug 2028 Sunday	Krishna Janmashtami Krishna's birth - Bhadrapada Krishna 8 in the amanta reckoning. Dated here by the ashtami prevailing at sunrise, which is the Vaishnava rule and the one most published panchangs follow. Smarta practice dates it by nishita instead, and in some years the two fall on different days - 2023 was one	Shravana, krishna 8
22 Aug 2028 Tuesday	Hartalika Teej a strict fast by women in honour of Parvati's penance for Shiva The tithi began and ended between two sunrises this year, so it prevails at no sunrise at all. The observance goes on the day it began.	Bhadrapada, shukla 3
23 Aug 2028 Wednesday	Ganesh Chaturthi Ganesha's installation, kept in madhyahna - the middle of the day	Bhadrapada, shukla 4
24 Aug 2028 Thursday	Rishi Panchami honour to the seven sages, kept at midday	Bhadrapada, shukla 5
27 Aug 2028 Sunday	Radha Ashtami the birth of Radha, fifteen days after Janmashtami, kept at midday	Bhadrapada, shukla 8

September 2028

Date	Festival	Lunar date
02 Sep 2028 Saturday	Anant Chaturdashi the immersion that closes Ganesh Chaturthi	Bhadrapada, shukla 14
03 Sep 2028 Sunday	Pitru Paksha begins a fortnight for the ancestors, ending at the next new moon	Bhadrapada, shukla 15
18 Sep 2028 Monday	Mahalaya / Sarva Pitru Amavasya the last day of Pitru Paksha. Shraddha is an afternoon rite, so the date follows aparahna - Ashwina Krishna 15 in the purnimanta reckoning	Bhadrapada, krishna 15
19 Sep 2028 Tuesday	Sharad Navaratri begins nine nights of the Goddess	Ashwina, shukla 1
26 Sep 2028 Tuesday	Durga Ashtami the eighth night. Kept at sunrise, unlike the ninth and tenth, which are afternoon rites - so Ashtami and Navami land on the same day in some years and consecutive days in others	Ashwina, shukla 8
26 Sep 2028 Tuesday	Maha Navami the ninth night	Ashwina, shukla 9
27 Sep 2028 Wednesday	Vijayadashami / Dussehra the tenth day, kept in aparahna - dating it from sunrise puts it a day late whenever the dashami begins late in the morning	Ashwina, shukla 10

October 2028

Date	Festival	Lunar date
03 Oct 2028 Tuesday	Sharad Purnima the harvest moon	Ashwina, shukla 15
07 Oct 2028 Saturday	Karva Chauth the fast breaks at moonrise, so the date follows the evening - Kartika Krishna 4 in the purnimanta reckoning	Ashwina, krishna 4
11 Oct 2028 Wednesday	Ahoi Ashtami a mothers' fast for their children, broken on seeing the stars in the evening	Ashwina, krishna 8
16 Oct 2028 Monday	Dhanteras the first day of the Diwali sequence, kept at pradosh	Ashwina, krishna 13
17 Oct 2028 Tuesday	Naraka Chaturdashi / Choti Diwali the pre-dawn oil bath	Ashwina, krishna 14
17 Oct 2028 Tuesday	Diwali / Lakshmi Puja the puja is at pradosh, so the date follows the evening and not sunrise - Kartika Krishna 15 in the purnimanta reckoning	Ashwina, krishna 15
18 Oct 2028 Wednesday	Govardhan Puja / Bali Pratipada the day after Diwali The tithi began and ended between two sunrises this year, so it prevails at no sunrise at all. The observance goes on the day it began.	Ashwina, krishna 1
19 Oct 2028 Thursday	Bhai Dooj brothers and sisters	Kartika, shukla 2
23 Oct 2028 Monday	Chhath Puja (Sandhya Arghya) the offering to the setting Sun, so the date follows sunset	Kartika, shukla 6
24 Oct 2028 Tuesday	Chhath Puja (Usha Arghya) the offering to the rising Sun - always the morning after the evening arghya, so it is dated from that and not from its own tithi	Kartika, shukla 7
28 Oct 2028 Saturday	Devuthani Ekadashi Vishnu wakes; the marriage season reopens	Kartika, shukla 11
30 Oct 2028 Monday	Tulsi Vivah the ceremonial marriage of the tulsi plant to Vishnu, which opens the wedding season	Kartika, shukla 12

November 2028

Date	Festival	Lunar date
02 Nov 2028 Thursday	Kartika Purnima / Dev Diwali the lamps on the ghats	Kartika, shukla 15
09 Nov 2028 Thursday	Kalabhairav Jayanti the appearance of Kala Bhairava, Shiva's fierce form, kept at midnight	Kartika, krishna 8
27 Nov 2028 Monday	Gita Jayanti the day the Bhagavad Gita was spoken, on Mokshada Ekadashi	Margashirsha, shukla 11
27 Nov 2028 Monday	Vaikuntha Ekadashi the southern observance	Margashirsha, shukla 11

December 2028

Date	Festival	Lunar date
01 Dec 2028 Friday	Dattatreya Jayanti the birth of Dattatreya, kept in the evening of the full moon	Margashirsha, shukla 15

Fasting days (vrats) this year

Each list gives the date, and when the tithi begins and ends, so you can also follow your own family's rule.

Ekadashi 2028 · 25 days
Purnima 2028 · 13 days
Amavasya 2028 · 12 days
Pradosh 2028 · 25 days
Sankashti Chaturthi 2028 · 12 days
Vinayaka Chaturthi 2028 · 12 days
Masik Shivaratri 2028 · 12 days
Sankranti 2028 · 12 days

Dates and times are for Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. Another town can differ by a day when a tithi changes close to sunrise. You can change the place above.