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Gujarat Festivals
Gujarat is famous for the world's longest dance festival — 9 nights of Navratri Garba, when entire cities dance around the pillar of Ma Amba. Uttarayan (Sankranti) turns the skies into a colourful battlefield of kites. Diwali here begins the Vikram Samvat new year (Bestu Varas) — Gujarati calendar new year.
Uttarayan / Makar Sankranti
📅 January 14
Kite-flying — Ahmedabad, Vadodara sky festivals
Rath Yatra (Ahmedabad)
📅 June-July
Jagannath temple's annual chariot procession
Janmashtami
📅 August-September
Krishna's birthday
Ganesh Chaturthi
📅 August-September
Home installations
Navratri (9 nights)
📅 September-October
World's longest dance festival — Garba, Dandiya Raas
Dussehra
📅 October
Ram vs Ravana; last day of Navratri
Sharad Purnima
📅 October
Full moon — Ras Purnima at Krishna temples
Diwali & Bestu Varas
📅 October-November
Diwali night + Gujarati New Year (Kartik Shukla Pratipada)
Bhai Bij
📅 October-November
Sister-brother bond, day after Bestu Varas
Other states
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