Makara Sankranti
The day the Sun enters Makara (Capricorn), marking the start of Uttarayana. Celebrated as Pongal, Lohri season and Uttarayan across India.
Aarti, mantra and katha
Across cities
| City | 2026 | 2027 |
|---|---|---|
| New Delhi | 14 January | 15 January |
| Mumbai | 14 January | 15 January |
| Kolkata | 14 January | 15 January |
| Chennai | 14 January | 15 January |
| Bengaluru | 14 January | 15 January |
| Hyderabad | 14 January | 15 January |
| Jaipur | 14 January | 15 January |
| Lucknow | 14 January | 15 January |
| Varanasi | 14 January | 15 January |
| Ujjain | 14 January | 15 January |
| Patna | 14 January | 15 January |
| Ahmedabad | 14 January | 15 January |
| Pune | 14 January | 15 January |
| Surat | 14 January | 15 January |
| Kanpur | 14 January | 15 January |
| Nagpur | 14 January | 15 January |
| Indore | 14 January | 15 January |
| Bhopal | 14 January | 15 January |
| Vadodara | 14 January | 15 January |
| Ludhiana | 14 January | 15 January |
| Agra | 14 January | 15 January |
| Nashik | 14 January | 15 January |
| Meerut | 14 January | 15 January |
| Rajkot | 14 January | 15 January |
| Amritsar | 14 January | 15 January |
| Prayagraj | 14 January | 15 January |
| Ranchi | 14 January | 15 January |
| Jodhpur | 14 January | 15 January |
| Raipur | 14 January | 15 January |
| Gwalior | 14 January | 15 January |
| Chandigarh | 14 January | 15 January |
| Coimbatore | 14 January | 15 January |
| Madurai | 14 January | 15 January |
| Kochi | 14 January | 15 January |
| Thiruvananthapuram | 14 January | 15 January |
| Visakhapatnam | 14 January | 15 January |
| Vijayawada | 14 January | 15 January |
| Bhubaneswar | 14 January | 15 January |
| Guwahati | 14 January | 15 January |
| Dehradun | 14 January | 15 January |
| Haridwar | 14 January | 15 January |
| Rishikesh | 14 January | 15 January |
| Mathura | 14 January | 15 January |
| Ayodhya | 14 January | 15 January |
| Gorakhpur | 14 January | 15 January |
| Udaipur | 14 January | 15 January |
| Jammu | 14 January | 15 January |
| Puri | 14 January | 15 January |
| Tirupati | 14 January | 15 January |
| Jabalpur | 14 January | 15 January |
| Kota | 14 January | 15 January |
| Ajmer | 14 January | 15 January |
| Gaya | 14 January | 15 January |
| Bareilly | 14 January | 15 January |
| Noida | 14 January | 15 January |
| Ghaziabad | 14 January | 15 January |
| Gurugram | 14 January | 15 January |
| Faridabad | 14 January | 15 January |
| Thane | 14 January | 15 January |
| Dwarka | 14 January | 15 January |
| Mysuru | 14 January | 15 January |
| Shimla | 14 January | 15 January |
| Jamshedpur | 14 January | 15 January |