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Important days in India list

Important Days in India – India Festivals & Public Holidays List

AvaniGo, January 6, 2022October 1, 2024
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Here we present the list of important days in India month wise along with dates, global observances as per the UN, India festivals list and public holidays list. The list may vary with local state holiday policies. While some important days are celebrated at fixed dates, other events may in dates vary every year.

Important days and dates of a year carry their own significance. Each of these important days month wise along with dates remind us the greatness of historical, social, cultural and lifestyle related aspects of our life. For candidates preparing for examinations, the knowledge of important days month wise along with dates is quintessential.

We hope you find this list useful for planning your activities and for exam preparation.

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Important Days January List

1st January English New Year, Global Family Day
4th January World Braille Day
6th January National Technology Day
9th January Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (NRI Day)
10th January World Laughter Day, World Hindi Day
11th January Death anniversary of Lal Bahadur Shastri, National Human Trafficking Awareness Day
12th January National Youth Day (Birth of Swami Vivekanand),
13th January Guru Gobind Singh Jayanti
14th January Lohri, Bhogi
15th January Indian Army Day, Pongal, Makar Sankranti, Wikipedia Day
23th January Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose’s birth anniversary
25th January India Tourism Day, National Voters Day
26th January Republic Day (India)
28th January Birth anniversary of Lala Lajpat Rai
30th January Mahatma Gandhi’s Martyrdom Day (Martyr’s Day)

Important Days February List

1st February Indian Coast Guard Day
2nd February World Wetlands Day
4th February World Cancer Day, Independence Day of Sri Lanka
7th February Safer Internet Day
11th February World Day of the Sick
11th January Death anniversary of Lal Bahadur Shastri, National Human Trafficking Awareness Day
12th February Darwin Day, International Day of Women’s Health
13th February Sarojini Naidu’s Birth Anniversary
14th February Valentine’s Day
15th February International Childhood Cancer Day
18th February Taj Mahotsav
20th February World Day of Social Justice
21th February International Mother Language Day
22nd February World Scout Day
24th February Central Excise Day
27th February World Sustainable Energy Day
28th February National Science Day

Important Days March List

2nd March Employee Appreciation Day
3rd March World Wildlife Day, World Hearing Day
4th March National Safety Day
8th March International Women’s Day, Ramakrishna Jayanti
10th March CISF Raising Day
14th March Pi Day, International Day of Action for Rivers
15th March World Consumer Rights Day, World Sleep Day
16th March National Vaccination Day
18th March Ordnance Factories Day (India)
20th March International Day of Happiness, World Oral Health Day
21th March World Forestry Day, World Down Syndrome Day, World Poetry Day, Human Rights Day (South Africa), International Day of Forests
22th March World Water Day
23th March World Meteorological Day
24th March World Tuberculosis (TB) Day
26th March Purple Day for epilepsy
27th March World Theatre Day
28th February National Science Day

Important Days List

1st April Orissa Day, Prevention of Blindness week
2nd April World Autism Awareness Day, International Children’s Book Day
4th April International Day for Mine Awareness
5th April National Maritime Day
6th April International Day of Sport for Development and Peace
7th April World Health Day
10th April World Homeopathy Day
11th April National Safe Motherhood Day, National Pet Day
12th April Equal Pay Day
13th April Jallianwala bagh Massacre Day
14th April B.R. Ambedkar Remembrance Day
17th April World Hemophilia Day
18 April World Heritage Day
21st April National Civil Service Day
22nd April World Earth Day
23rd April World Book and Copyright Day
24th April National Panchayati Day
25th April World Malaria Day
26th April World Intellectual Property Day
28th April World Day for Safety and Health at Work, World Veterinary Day
29th Aprila International Dance Day
30th April Ayushman Bharat Diwas

Important Days May List

1st May International Labour Day or May Day, Maharashtra Day
3rd May Press Freedom Day
4th May International Firefighter’s Day
7th May World Athletics Day, Rabindranath Tagore Jayanti
8th May World Red Cross Day ,World Thalassemia Day, Mother’s Day
11th May National Technology Day
12th May International Nurses Day
15th May International Day of Families
17th May World Telecommunication Day
18th May World AIDS Vaccine Day, International Museum Day
21st May National Anti-Terrorism Day
22nd May International Day for Biological Diversity
31st May Anti-Tobacco Day

 

Important Days June List 

1st June World Milk Day, Global Day of Parents
2nd June Telangana Formation Day
3rd June World Bicycle Day
4th June International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
5th June World Environment Day
7th June World Food Safety Day
8th June World Brain Tumour Day, World Oceans Day
12th June World Day Against Child Labour
14th June World Blood Donor Day
15th June World Wind Day, World Elder Abuse Awareness Day
16th June Martyrdom of Guru Arjan Dev
17th June World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
18th June Autistic Pride Day, International Picnic Day
19th June World Sickle Cell Awareness Day, World Sauntering Day, Father’s Day
20th June World Refugee Day
21st June World Music Day, World Hydrography Day, International Yoga Day
23rd June International Olympic Day, United Nations Public Service Day, International Widow’s Day
26th June International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
30th June Asteroid Day

 Important Days July List

1st July Doctor’s Day, National Postal Worker Day, Canada Day, Chartered Accountant’s Day (India)
2nd July World UFO Day, National Anisette Day
4th July Independence Day USA
6th July World Zoonoses Day
11th July World Population Day
12th July National Simplicity Day, Paper Bag Day, Malala Day
14th July Bastille Day
17th July World Day for International Justice
18th July International Nelson Mandela Day
22nd July Pi Approximation Day
24th July National Thermal Engineer Day
26th July Kargil Vijay Diwas (Kargil Victory Day)
28th July World Nature Conservation Day, World Hepatitis Day
29th- July International Tiger Day
Last Sunday of July National Parent’s Day – USA

Important Days August List

First Sunday of August: International Friendship Day

1st August Yorkshire Day
6th August Hiroshima Day
7th August Handloom Day
9th August Quit India Movement Day, Nagasaki Day, Day of the World’s Indigenous People
12th August International Youth Day, Elephant Day
13th August International Lefthanders Day
14th August Pakistan Independence Day
15th August Indian Independence Day
16th August Bennington Battle Day
17th August Indonesian Independence Day
19th August World Photography Day, World Humanitarian Day
20th August World Mosquito Day, Sadbhavna Divas, Indian Akshay Urja Day
23rd August International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition,
26th August Women’s Equality Day
29th August National Sports Day
30th August Small Industry Day
31st August Malaysia National Day

Important Days September List

2nd September World Coconut Day
3rd September Skyscraper Day
5th September International Day of Charity, Teachers’ Day (India)
7th September Brazilian Independence Day, Forgiveness Day
8th September International Literacy Day
9th Septemeber Himalayan Day
10th September World Suicide Prevention Day
11th September Patriot Day
14th September Hindi Diwas, World First Aid Day
15th September Engineer’s Day (India), International Day of Democracy
16th September Malaysia Day, World Ozone Day, International Day of Preservation
21st September International Day of Peace and Non-Violence, World Alzheimer’s Day
22nd September Rose Day (Welfare of Cancer patients)
23rd September International Day of Sign Languages
26th September World Contraception Day, World Maritime Day
27th September World Tourism Day
28th September World Rabies Day
29th September World Heart Day
30th September International Translation Day
4th Sunday of September World Rivers Day
Last week of September World Day of Deaf

Important Days October List 

1st October International Day of the Elderly (UN), International Coffee Day, World Vegetarian Day
2nd October Gandhi Jayanti, International Day of Non-Violence
3rd October German Unity Day
4th October World Animal Welfare Day
5th October World Teachers Day
8th October Indian Air Force Day
9th October World Postal Day or World Post Office Day
10th October World Mental Health Day
11th October International Girl Child Day
13th October World Calamity Control Day (UN) or UN International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction
14th October World Standards Day
15th October Global Hand washing Day, World White Cane Day (guiding the blind), World Students Day
16th October World Food Day
17th October International Poverty Eradication Day
20th October National Solidarity Day
23rd October Mole Day
24th October United Nations Day, World Development Information Day
30th September International Translation Day
30th October World Thrift Day
31st October Halloween, Rashtriya Ekta Diwas

Important Days November List

1st November World Vegan Day, All Saints’ Day
2nd November All Soul’s Day
5th November World Tsunami Day
7th November Infant Protection Day, World Cancer Awareness Day
9th November Iqbal Day, National Legal Services Day
10th November Transport Day
11th November Veterans Day
12th November World Pneumonia Day, Guru Nanak Jayanti
13th November World Kindness Day
14th November World Diabetes Day, Children’s Day
17th November National Epilepsy Day
19th November International Men’s Day, World Toilet Day
20th November Universal Children’s Day
21st November World Television Day
25th November International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
26th November Law Day (India)
29th November International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People
30th November Saint Andrew’s Day (Scotland)

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Important Days December List

1st December World AIDS Day
2nd December National Pollution Control Day
3rd December World Day of the Handicapped
4th December Indian Navy Day
5th December International Volunteer Day, World Soil Day
7th December Indian Armed Forces Flag Day, International Civil Aviation Day
9th December International Anti-Corruption Day
10th December Human Rights Day
11th- December UNICEF Day, International Mountain Day
14th December World Energy Conservation Day
15th December International Tea Day
16th December Victory Day of Bangladesh
18th December Minorities Rights Day (India), International Migrants Day
19th December Goa’s Liberation Day
20th December International Human Solidarity Day
22nd December National Mathematics Day
23rd December Kisan Divas (Farmer’s Day in India)
25th December Christmas Day, Good Governance Day (India)
31st December New Year’s Eve

India National Holidays List

Date Day Holiday
Jan 1 Saturday New Years Day
Jan 14 Friday Makar Sankranti
Jan 14 Friday Pongal
Jan 26 Wednesday Republic Day
Feb 5 Saturday Vasant Panchami
Feb 15 Tuesday Hazarat Ali’s Birthday
Feb 16 Wednesday Guru Ravidas Jayanti
Feb 19 Saturday Shivaji Jayanti
Feb 26 Saturday Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati Jayanti
Feb 28 Monday Maha Shivaratri – Shivaratri
Mar 17 Thursday Holika Dahana
Mar 18 Friday Dolyatra
Mar 20 Sunday Parsi New Year
Apr 1 Friday Chaitra Sukhladi
Apr 10 Sunday Sri Rama Navami
Apr 13 Wednesday Vaisakhi
Apr 14 Thursday Mahavir Jayanti, Puthandu (Tamil New Year)
Apr 14 Thursday Mesadi Vaisakhadi
Apr 15 Friday Good Friday
Apr 17 Sunday Easter
Apr 29 Friday Jamat Ul Vida
May 7 Saturday Birthday of Rabindranath
May 15 Sunday Buddha Purnima Vesak
Jun 30 Thursday Rath Yatra
Jul 13 Wednesday Guru Purnima
Jul 30 Saturday Muharram – Ashura
Aug 11 Thursday Raksha Bandhan
Aug 15 Monday Independence Day
Aug 18 Thursday Janmashtami
Aug 30 Tuesday Ganesh Chaturthi – Vinayaka Chaturthi
Sep 7 Wednesday Onam
Oct 2 Sunday Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti
Oct 4 Tuesday Dussehra
Oct 8 Saturday Milad un-Nabi -Id-e-Milad
Oct 9 Sunday Maharishi Valmiki Jayanti
Oct 12 Wednesday Karaka Chaturthi
Oct 24 Monday Naraka Chaturdasi
Oct 24 Monday Diwali
Oct 25 Tuesday Govardhan Puja
Oct 26 Wednesday Bhai Duj
Oct 30 Sunday Chhat Puja

Note: The information given in this article is generic. Dates and Days may change every year, and based on the calender observations. If you find any error in this list, please being to our notice. We will be happy to make the necessary corrections.

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