🪷 होली · Holi (Vasantotsava, Phālguna Kṛṣṇa Pratipadā)
📅 When is Holi (Vasantotsava, Phālguna Kṛṣṇa Pratipadā)?
| Year | Date | Day |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2025-03-15 | Saturday |
| 2026 (this year) | 2026-03-04 | Wednesday |
| 2027 | 2027-03-23 | Tuesday |
Tradition
Tradition: Pan-Hindu
Vrata: No
How the day is decided
The Kṛṣṇa Pratipad at sunrise; when it holds at two sunrises, the first; touching no sunrise, the day it runs.
Source: Dharmasindhu (the festival's own verse). Computed on the Sūrya Siddhānta's sunrise, tithi and Moon at Ujjayinī (a city's page uses that city's sunrise).
Detection Rule (Pure Pañchāṅga-Based)
{
"tithi_number": 16,
"tithi_paksha": "Kṛṣṇa",
"lunar_month": "Phālguna",
"lunar_month_system": "amanta",
"udaya_first": true
}Sources
- Dharmasindhu, Phālguna-māsa-kṛtya (vasantotsava)
Precedence: 1 (lower = higher priority on multi-festival days)
Engine: Festival catalogue runs at request time over the Sūrya-Siddhānta substrate's pañchāṅga output
Engine: Festival catalogue runs at request time over the Sūrya-Siddhānta substrate's pañchāṅga output
Sources and Connected Observances
Continue from this festival’s dates, significance, observance, detection rule, and textual witnesses to its day pages, related corpus passages, festival calendar, Pañchāṅga references, Bindu, and philosophy. Textual witnesses remain citation-level references until their complete source passages are available locally.
Holi (Vasantotsava, Phālguna Kṛṣṇa Pratipadā)local festival mūrti-page · Pan-Hindu/festivalsall 124 festival pages and tradition categories/2026 Hindu calendaryear-level festival occurrence aggregation from the same engine2025 occurrenceHoli (Vasantotsava, Phālguna Kṛṣṇa Pratipadā) computed on Saturday, 2025-03-152026 occurrenceHoli (Vasantotsava, Phālguna Kṛṣṇa Pratipadā) computed on Wednesday, 2026-03-042027 occurrenceHoli (Vasantotsava, Phālguna Kṛṣṇa Pratipadā) computed on Tuesday, 2027-03-23BG 10.35Krishna as Mārgaśīrṣa among months and kusumākara among seasonsBG 10.30kālaḥ kalayatām aham · Krishna as Time among reckoners/jyotisha-referencetithi, nakshatra, vāra, and pañchāṅga element source layer/cosmic-timekalpa, manvantara, yuga, and annual-cycle time context/lagna-tithi-lokalagna and tithi calculation method, traditional interpretation, and scripture boundary/samskara-muhurtaoperational muhūrta doorway for dharmic timing decisions/bindufestival time as Bindu-touch aperture in the dharmic year/philosophyKrishna = Paramaatma = Parabrahman constitutional foundationtextual witnessesDharmasindhu, Phālguna-māsa-kṛtya (vasantotsava)