Magh Mela 2027: Questions Pilgrims Ask

Warm layers for the morning, a full dry change of clothes in a waterproof bag, a towel, slippers you can wash, a bag for wet clothes and a cloth bag. In January the average daily low at Prayagraj is about 9 °C, by the India Meteorological Department’s figures. The packing list has the rest.

Only at the ghats the mela administration opens and the police direct you to, within the marked limits. In 2026 the mela had 12,100 feet of bathing ghats with changing rooms, PTI reported, and 31 ghats are proposed for 2027, according to Amar Ujala.

No. In 2025 the mela authority asked pilgrims not to use soap or detergent in the river and not to throw puja materials into it. Use the dustbins on the ghat.

By tradition kalpvas runs from Paush Purnima to Maghi Purnima: Friday 22 January to Saturday 20 February 2027, by the calendar. Some families count it from an Ekadashi instead. Read kalpvas at the Magh Mela.

In mid-river, the district says, priests sit on small platforms and help pilgrims with puja and the ritual bath. The tirth purohits, or Prayagwals, keep family genealogies and conduct rituals such as sankalp, mundan and pind daan, the mela authority says.

The offering of hair at the Sangam: the head is shaved, leaving the shikha, and the hair is offered to the Ganga. The mela authority calls it an important ritual of Prayagraj.

Both are near the Sangam. The Akshayavat is inside the fort, which the army uses and which is only partly open to visitors, and the Bade Hanuman temple is at Daraganj. Check entry rules locally, and see the holy places of Prayagraj.

By the Prayagraj Mela Authority, the Prayagraj district at prayagraj.nic.in, Indian Railways on NTES and IRCTC, and UPSRTC. We log each one with its date and source on the Magh Mela updates page.