Indian Festival Content Calendar

How it works

How to use the festival calendar

Festival posts perform best when they're ready a few days early, scheduled, and approved before the rush. This calendar lists upcoming gazetted and restricted holidays from the Government of India's official holiday lists for 2026 and 2027, shows how many days are left, and tells you when to start designing.

Set your own lead time — a week for social posts, three or four weeks for printed flex and hoardings — and download any date (or the whole list) as an .ics file that works with Google Calendar, Outlook and phone calendars.

Dates are taken from the official lists for Central Government offices in Delhi, so they won't cover every regional festival. Moon-based festivals like Eid and Muharram can shift by a day, and some festivals are celebrated on different dates in different states, so confirm locally before you publish.

1. Choose which holidays to show and how far ahead.
2. Set how many days before each festival you want to start designing.
3. Download a single date or the full calendar.
4. Brief your designer before the design-by date.