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When the temple's festivals actually fall — Vivah Panchami and the three-day Ram Vivah Mahotsav, Ram Navami, Kartik Purnima and the rest — with the dates from the panchang and the ones the town has yet to announce said plainly.
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Orchha's year is kept by the temple, not by the civil calendar. Almost every date below moves — it is fixed by the moon, so it lands on a different day each year and is only settled when a panchang says so. These are the dates as the panchang gives them for the years ahead, with the ones the town organises around named first. For a month-by-month sense of heat, river and crowds, see the month planner.
In 32 days
Sharad Navratri and Dussehra
11–20 October 2026
The end of the monsoon and the start of the season. The river is dropping, the heat has gone, and the town begins to fill.
Sunday, 25 October 2026 · Ram Raja Temple
Some years the panchang splits this full moon across two days. The temple's own announcement is what decides the changeover.
Sunday, 8 November 2026
Tuesday, 24 November 2026
Monday, 14 December 2026 · Ram Raja Temple
The town's own festival, and the biggest day of its year. Orchha is the place where Ram is worshipped as a reigning king, and this is the wedding of its king. In 2024 the administration expected around 70,000 people at the bhandara.
How these dates work
Fixed dates — feast days, holidays — recur every year and are worked out forward from today, so this stays right without updates. Dates marked as approximate move year to year. The exact hours, and whether an event runs at all in a given year, are set by the host: confirm with them before you set out.
A date that only its organiser can set is shown here only once they have announced it. Until then the rule it follows is stated instead — we would rather tell you the rule than guess you a day.
Fuller calendars: Madhya Pradesh Tourism — Shri Ram Vivah, Orchha — The state tourism board's own page for the three-day festival. The 2025 programme is on it; the year's dates usually appear here in the autumn. · Madhya Pradesh Tourism — what's on — Where a year's festival programme is published when it is ready. · Drik Panchang — Hindu calendar — The panchang every date on this page was read from, set to New Delhi. It answers for wherever it thinks you are, so the dates it shows you may differ by a day from the ones here unless you set the place.
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Friday, 15 January 2027
Thursday, 11 February 2027
21–22 March 2027
The bazaar is the centre of it. The heat has usually arrived by now, so this is a morning festival.
Panchang authorities and the state holiday list have differed by a day on Holi before now.
Thursday, 15 April 2027 · Ram Raja Temple
Panchang authorities and the Madhya Pradesh government's own holiday list have differed by a day on this festival before. If you are travelling for it, check the temple's own announcement.
Late May or June 2027 · Ram Raja Temple
exact dates vary — confirm before you go
One of the observances the Ram Raja Temple keeps. It falls on the tenth day of the waxing moon of Jyeshtha, at the hottest point of the year.
The exact date is not listed here because it has not been confirmed against a panchang for the years ahead. Ask at the temple.
Late June or July 2027 · Ram Raja Temple
exact dates vary — confirm before you go
Also kept at the Ram Raja Temple, on the second day of the waxing moon of Ashadha — by which time the monsoon has usually broken.
As with Ganga Dussehra, the date here is the month rather than the day. Ask at the temple.
Sun, 11 Oct
Sharad Navratri and Dussehra · in 32 days