2026 Calendar

Social Media Calendar2026

A complete list of Indian festivals, holidays, and special days to help you plan your social media content throughout the year.

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95+
Total Events
12
Months
25+
Major Festivals
100%
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January 2026

1
1
Thu

New Year's Day

2
12
Mon

National Youth Day (Swami Vivekananda Jayanti)

3
13
Tue

Lohri

4
14
Wed

Makar Sankranti / Pongal / Uttarayan

5
23
Fri

Parakram Diwas (Subhas Chandra Bose Jayanti)

6
23
Fri

Vasant Panchami (Saraswati Puja)

7
25
Sun

National Tourism Day / Voters Day

8
26
Mon

Republic Day

February 2026

1
1
Sun

Guru Ravidas Jayanti

2
4
Wed

World Cancer Day

3
12
Thu

Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati Jayanti

4
14
Sat

Valentine's Day

5
15
Sun

Maha Shivaratri

6
19
Thu

Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Jayanti

March 2026

1
3
Tue

Holika Dahan / World Wildlife Day

2
4
Wed

Holi

3
8
Sun

International Women's Day

4
19
Thu

Gudi Padwa / Ugadi / Chaitra Navratri Begins

5
21
Sat

Eid-ul-Fitr (Tentative)

6
23
Mon

Shaheed Diwas (Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, Sukhdev)

7
26
Thu

Ram Navami

8
31
Tue

Mahavir Jayanti

April 2026

1
1
Wed

Odisha Day (Utkal Divas) / April Fools' Day

2
2
Thu

Hanuman Jayanti

3
3
Fri

Good Friday

4
14
Tue

Ambedkar Jayanti / Baisakhi / Tamil New Year

5
19
Sun

Akshaya Tritiya

May 2026

1
1
Fri

International Labour Day / Maharashtra Day / Gujarat Day

2
1
Fri

Buddha Purnima

3
7
Thu

Rabindranath Tagore Jayanti

4
10
Sun

Mother's Day

5
27
Wed

Eid-al-Adha / Bakrid (Tentative)

June 2026

1
21
Sun

International Yoga Day / Father's Day / World Music Day

2
26
Fri

Muharram (Tentative)

July 2026

1
16
Thu

Jagannath Rath Yatra

2
26
Sun

Kargil Vijay Diwas

3
29
Wed

Guru Purnima

August 2026

1
2
Sun

Friendship Day

2
12
Wed

International Youth Day

3
15
Sat

Independence Day

4
26
Wed

Onam (Thiruvonam)

5
28
Fri

Raksha Bandhan

6
29
Sat

National Sports Day

September 2026

1
4
Fri

Janmashtami

2
5
Sat

Teachers' Day

3
14
Mon

Ganesh Chaturthi

4
14
Mon

Hindi Diwas

5
17
Thu

Vishwakarma Puja

6
25
Fri

Anant Chaturdashi / Ganesh Visarjan

October 2026

1
2
Fri

Gandhi Jayanti / Lal Bahadur Shastri Jayanti

2
10
Sat

World Mental Health Day

3
11
Sun

Navratri Starts (Ghatasthapana)

4
16
Fri

World Food Day

5
19
Mon

Durga Ashtami / Maha Navami

6
20
Tue

Dussehra (Vijayadashami)

7
29
Thu

Karva Chauth

8
31
Sat

Sardar Patel Jayanti / Halloween

November 2026

1
6
Fri

Dhanteras

2
8
Sun

Diwali (Deepavali)

3
9
Mon

Govardhan Puja / Vishwakarma Day

4
10
Tue

Bhai Dooj

5
11
Wed

National Education Day

6
14
Sat

Children's Day

7
15
Sun

Chhath Puja

8
19
Thu

International Men's Day

9
24
Tue

Guru Nanak Jayanti (Gurpurab)

10
26
Thu

Constitution Day (Samvidhan Divas)

December 2026

1
16
Wed

Vijay Diwas

2
22
Tue

National Mathematics Day

3
23
Wed

Kisan Diwas (Farmers' Day)

4
25
Fri

Christmas

5
31
Thu

New Year's Eve

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