Days Until Holi

This live countdown shows how many days are left until the next Holi, the festival of colours. Holi follows the Hindu lunar calendar and is celebrated on the day after the full moon of the month of Phalguna, so its Gregorian date moves around within March each year (and occasionally late February). This page tracks the correct upcoming date — the main day of playing colours, known as Rangwali Holi or Dhulandi — and refreshes automatically each time you open it, rolling forward to the next year once the day has passed.

Because it always points to the very next Holi, you can bookmark it and it will stay accurate year after year. A clear number of days helps with the planning that Holi invites: buying colours and water balloons, arranging a get-together, sorting old clothes to wear, and stocking up on festive food and sweets like gujiya. The evening before is Holika Dahan, when bonfires are lit, so the countdown also helps you keep both days in view.

The result shows which weekday the coming Holi falls on, which matters for planning time off and travel. The figure is anchored to today's date and computed in a timezone-safe way, so it reads the same wherever you are, and everything runs privately in your browser.

To use it, just read the number — the days until Holi appear automatically. On the day itself the page tells you Holi is here rather than showing a countdown, and you can point the picker at any other date to count toward a different occasion. The upcoming Rangwali Holi dates it uses are 4 March 2026, 22 March 2027, and 11 March 2028.

For the festival of lights, the days until Diwali page counts down the same way, and the days until date calculator counts toward any date you choose. To plan around bank closures, the India holiday calendar and the bank working days (India) calculator both account for the national holidays.

The countdown is the number of whole days from today to the next Holi (the Rangwali Holi day of playing colours), taken from a list of verified festival dates and calculated at UTC midnight so it is timezone-safe. Once the upcoming Holi has passed, the page automatically targets the next date in the list. On the day itself the count is zero.