Holi 2026 Wed 4 Mar
Festival · 30 cities, each on its own sunrise and sunset, in its own time
When is Holi 2026?
Wednesday 4 March
Chaitra Krishna Pratipada (purnimanta) · Phalguna Krishna Pratipada (amanta)
Holi Sunrise: what time?
Holi in 30 cities
Times in each city’s own zone.
India
Nepal
Gulf
South-East Asia
Another place?
Opens Holi 2026 for that place
Holi 2026 by state and country
Each opens Holi 2026 there: the date in each city.
States and territories of India
- Andaman and Nicobar
- Andhra Pradesh
- Arunachal Pradesh
- Assam
- Bihar
- Chhattisgarh
- Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu
- Goa
- Gujarat
- Haryana
- Himachal Pradesh
- Jammu and Kashmir
- Jharkhand
- Karnataka
- Kerala
- Ladakh
- Lakshadweep
- Madhya Pradesh
- Maharashtra
- Manipur
- Meghalaya
- Mizoram
- Nagaland
- Odisha
- Punjab
- Rajasthan
- Sikkim
- Tamil Nadu
- Telangana
- Tripura
- Uttar Pradesh
- Uttarakhand
- West Bengal
Countries
Why is Holi on Wed 4 Mar?
In New Delhi
Holi is on Wed 4 Mar: Pratipada holds sunrise that day.
Sunrise at 06:44 is Purnima; Pratipada begins at 17:07.
Pratipada at sunrise, 06:43. Pratipada: 17:07 Tue to 16:49.
One row per day, on one clock (IST). Band: the tithi. Line: Sunrise. Light strip: day; dark strip: night.
Holi follows the tithi at sunrise. Pratipada runs from 17:07 on Tue 3 Mar to 16:49 on Wed 4 Mar, so it holds sunrise only on Wed 4 Mar, at 06:43.
The rule
Chaitra Krishna Pratipada (purnimanta) · Phalguna Krishna Pratipada (amanta)
Holi follows the tithi at sunrise.
- Smarta
- the day Pratipada holds at sunrise; over two sunrises, the first; with none, the day it is current (Nirnayasindhu).
- Vaishnava
- the Smarta day.
Each city’s date and times are worked out at its own sunrise and sunset; each city’s page draws the reason.