Kumbh dates · How we mark them
Every bathing day on this site carries one of three labels, with the source it comes from and the day we checked it. A date is official when the authority in charge has published it in a dated notice, provisional when the authority has announced it but it can still change, and expected when it comes from the Hindu calendar and no authority has announced it yet.
Below are how the dates are set, the board of every day with its status, and a dated log of what changed. When an official date changes, we change it here first, and the calendar feed and every page that shows the date change with it.
The authority in charge of the mela has published the day in a dated notice we can link to: a government order, a gazette, the mela authority’s plan or its own website. We still show the date we last checked it.
An authority has announced the day, often through a meeting reported by the press or a page on its website, but there is no dated notice yet, or the notice says it can change. Plan around it, and book only what you can cancel.
No authority has announced the day. It comes from the Hindu calendar: the tithi and the festival it falls on, worked out by the Tirth panchang for the bathing place. Treat it as a guide to the season, not a fixed date.
A Kumbh falls when Jupiter and the Sun reach the signs tradition links with each place. The panchang turns that into tithis and days.
The akharas and the seers' council meet the administration to agree the main bathing days, above all the Amrit Snans.
The state or the mela authority announces the days on its website or through the district, often months ahead and sometimes with later changes.
We mark each day official, provisional or expected, with its source and the date we checked, and change it the day a notice changes.
Amrit Snan days are marked. Tap a day for its own page, or subscribe to a Kumbh’s dates in your calendar.
Tithi: Magha Shukla Chaturdashi at sunrise
Source: Official Haridwar Kumbh website · 16 Oct 2026
Tithi: Phalguna Krishna Trayodashi at sunrise · Amrit Snan
Source: Official Haridwar Kumbh website · 16 Oct 2026
Tithi: Phalguna Amavasya · Amrit Snan
Source: Official Haridwar Kumbh website · 16 Oct 2026
Tithi: Phalguna Shukla Saptami · Amrit Snan
Source: Official Haridwar Kumbh website · 16 Oct 2026
Tithi: Chaitra Shukla Ashtami · Amrit Snan
Source: Official Haridwar Kumbh website · 16 Oct 2026
Tithi: Bhadrapada Shukla Ekadashi · Amrit Snan
Source: CM meeting via Patrika · 2 Jun 2025
Tithi: Bhadrapada Shukla Dwadashi · Amrit Snan
Source: CM meeting via Patrika · 2 Jun 2025
Tithi: Chaitra Shukla Pratipada
Source: State plan via Deccan Chronicle · 27 Jun 2026
Tithi: Jyeshtha Shukla Tritiya
Source: State plan via Deccan Chronicle · 27 Jun 2026
The official website now has a map of 1,758 places, with proposed points such as lost-and-found and parking marked as proposed. Proposed points can change before the Kumbh.
Source: Official Haridwar Kumbh map, 18 Oct 2026It adds Dev Doli on Mon 15 Mar 2027 and calls Wed 14 Apr the main (Pramukh) Amrit Snan. All dates stay provisional until a dated notice lists them.
Source: Official Haridwar Kumbh website, 16 Oct 2026The site is haridwarkumbh.uk.gov.in. The song is "Kumbh Ka Parv Aa Gaya".
Source: Navbharat Live, 12 Oct 2026The Chief Minister inspected Kumbh works on 11 October.
Source: UNI, 12 Oct 2026Operators need at least 2 acres, can run from March to December 2027 and apply online. No public booking channel yet.
Source: Free Press Journal, 29 Sep 2026At Ramkund in Nashik and Kushavarta in Trimbakeshwar at the same time, with Godavari aarti.
Source: NTKMA via Free Press Journal, 24 Sep 2026Every dated change to a bathing day on this site, newest first, with its source. Old entries stay in the log when a date is replaced.
The official website now has a map of 1,758 places, with proposed points such as lost-and-found and parking marked as proposed. Proposed points can change before the Kumbh.
Official Haridwar Kumbh mapIt adds Dev Doli on Mon 15 Mar 2027 and calls Wed 14 Apr the main (Pramukh) Amrit Snan. All dates stay provisional until a dated notice lists them.
Official Haridwar Kumbh websiteThe site is haridwarkumbh.uk.gov.in. The song is "Kumbh Ka Parv Aa Gaya".
Navbharat LiveMany sites publish date lists before any authority has. Some copy an older list, and some take dates from a calendar worked out for a different city, which can move a sankranti by a day. Bathing days follow the tithi, the lunar day, so the same festival falls on a different date every year.
Treat a list as reliable only when it names its source and the date it was checked. If a page calls itself official, check that its address ends in gov.in or nic.in; our page on checking a booking explains the warning signs.
Whenever an authority publishes or changes a date, and at least once a week in a Kumbh season. The date we last checked is at the top of each dates page.
No. It is an independent guide run by Tirth.com. Every date links to the official or published source it comes from.
Not all of them. Nashik’s dates are in the Kumbh Mela Authority’s plan; Haridwar’s are on the official website but not yet in a dated notice, so they are Provisional; Ujjain’s bathing days have not been announced. Each day’s status is in the board above.
Photo: TirthProvisionalहरिद्वार कुंभ 2027Haridwar Kumbh 2027Thu 14 Jan to Tue 20 Apr 2027Open the guide
Photo: Rohit R Nashik, CC BY-SA 4.0Officialनासिक कुंभ 2027Nashik–Trimbakeshwar SimhasthaMain bathing Aug to Sep 2027Open the guide
Photo: Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0Expectedउज्जैन सिंहस्थ 2028Ujjain Simhastha 202827 Mar to 27 May 2028Open the guide
Photo: Ninara, CC BY 2.0Expectedप्रयागराज माघ मेला 2027Prayagraj Magh Mela 2027Magh Mela, 15 Jan to 6 Mar 2027Open the guide