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Festival and season calendar for Punjab businesses, October 2026 to November 2027.
Every date worth planning for, from Dussehra to Gurpurab: what a café, a hotel, a gym, a clinic and a shop could post or film, and the day to shoot it, two weeks ahead. It prints on one A4 sheet, for the wall behind the counter.
The calendar
Find your column. Shoot two weeks ahead.
The day to shoot is two weeks before the date: a week to edit and say yes, and the posts are ready the week before. When that falls on a Sunday, we give the Saturday.
The first four columns are the four kinds of place we shoot for every month; the fifth is for shops, jewellers and boutiques, like the ones we shoot on shoot days. See the real work: a dessert shop, a hotel, a gym and a clinic. Several dates at once? A Content Studio shoot day is on the prices page.
- A day to plan for. Post on the day, or the days before.
- With care. A Gurpurab or a holy day: greetings, not offers.
- Quiet day. A respectful post, or none. No offers.
- Season. Months, not a day: plan the whole stretch.
- Skip it. Not every date suits every place.
| When | What | Café or dessert shop | Hotel or banquet hall | Gym | Clinic | Shop, jeweller or boutique | Shoot by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dussehra | Hot jalebi and rabri, made at the counter | The lobby dressed for the festive season | Members name one habit they’re leaving behind | The doctor’s greeting, and the holiday hours | New festive stock, laid out on the counter | ||
| Karva Chauth | Sargi boxes at dawn; a dessert after moonrise | Dinner after moonrise, tables set for two | A couples’ workout, filmed on the shoot day | The doctor answers one question about the fast | Suits, bangles and the thali, worn | ||
| Nov 2026 to Feb 2027 | The wedding monthsSeasonYour own banquet diary is the real calendar. | Dessert tables and boxes for the functions | The hall set, before the guests arrive | Couples and families training for the day | Skip it | Bridal sets and lehengas, worn | |
| DhanterasThe day families buy gold, silver and something new for the house. | Skip it | Skip it | Skip it | Skip it | New pieces, shot at the counter with you | ||
| Diwali and Bandi Chhor Divas | Gift boxes and hampers, packed on camera | The Diwali party; hampers for corporate gifts | The team’s greeting, the floor lit with diyas | Greetings for both days, and the holiday hours | Gift sets and festive wear, wrapped on camera | ||
| Gurpurab of Sri Guru Nanak Dev JiWith care | For everyone: a greeting, with your own place lit up. Greetings, not offers, and never film the langar or the sangat without asking. | ||||||
| Martyrdom Day of Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur JiQuiet day | A quiet day: a respectful post, or none. No offers, no music. | No shoot | |||||
| Christmas | Plum cake, hot chocolate, a tree by the till | The Christmas brunch; the lobby tree going up | Twelve days, twelve moves: a short reel series | The team’s greeting, and the week’s hours | Party wear, and gift wrapping at the counter | ||
| Shaheedi Sabha, Sri Fatehgarh SahibQuiet day | Quiet days: no offers and no party posts. Hold the New Year’s Eve posts until the 29th. | No shoot | |||||
| New Year’s Eve | The midnight dessert; open late | The party night: the bar, the music, the tables | January’s new members: a coach shows the floor | The holiday hours, and the team’s greeting | One party look, styled three ways | ||
| LohriSome calendars say Wed 13 Jan. | Rewri, gajak, peanuts and popcorn by the fire | The lawn bonfire; first-Lohri family parties | A bhangra session round the fire | The team’s greeting by the bonfire | First-Lohri outfits and gifts, laid out | ||
| Maghi; Gurpurab of Sri Guru Gobind Singh JiWith careGreetings, not offers, for the Gurpurab. | Maghi’s kheer, cooked in sugarcane juice | Kheer and khichdi on the Maghi menu | The team’s greeting for the Gurpurab | A greeting, and the holiday hours | The team’s greeting for the Gurpurab | ||
| Basant Panchami | All yellow: meethe chawal, a saffron sundae | Kites on the roof; a yellow lunch menu | A class in yellow, kites on the wall | The team in yellow, and a greeting | Yellow suits and dupattas, worn | ||
| Birthday of Sri Guru Ravidas JiWith care | For everyone: a greeting, not an offer. If the shobha yatra passes your door, post that day’s hours. | ||||||
| HoliHolika Dahan is on Sun 21 Mar (the central restricted list says Mon 22 Mar). The central holiday is Tue 23 Mar. | Thandai and gujiya; a colour-proof table | A Holi brunch on the lawn, if you hold one | A class dressed in white, then the colours | The doctor answers one Holi question | White suits and kurtas, before the colours | ||
| Martyrdom day of Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and RajguruQuiet day | A quiet day: a respectful post, or none. No offers. Keep the Holi colours to the 22nd. | No shoot | |||||
| Apr 2027 to Jun 2027 | Summer, the ice-cream monthsSeasonJune, when schools close: the dates come with Punjab’s order. | New flavours and shakes; the late-evening rush | The pool or the cool bar; family stays in June | The early and late batches, as they happen | The doctor answers one question about the heat | Cotton and light colours: the summer stock | |
| Vaisakhi, and Khalsa Sajna DivasGreet both. | Lassi in steel glasses; wheat on the counter | A Vaisakhi thali; the dhol at the door | A bhangra class with a dhol | The team’s greeting, and the holiday hours | Phulkari and festive suits, worn in daylight | ||
| Akshaya TritiyaA day for buying gold, and for weddings. | Skip it | A wedding in the diary: the hall set for it | Skip it | Skip it | The day to buy gold: new pieces, shot with you | ||
| International Day of Yoga | Skip it | Sunrise yoga on the lawn or the roof | A sunrise session, filmed in one take | The team’s morning stretch, at the clinic | Skip it | ||
| National Doctors’ Day | Skip it | Skip it | Skip it | The doctor and team at work. Never a patient. | Skip it | ||
| Teeyan begins (Hariyali Teej)It runs to the full moon of Sawan, Raksha Bandhan. | Kheer, malpure and gulgule for Teeyan | A Teeyan evening: giddha and a swing on the lawn | A giddha dance class | Skip it | Suits, parandis and bangles for Teeyan | ||
| Independence Day | A three-colour kulfi, and a greeting | The flag raised with the staff in the morning | A dawn run with members | The team’s greeting | The team’s greeting; a tricolour dupatta | ||
| Raksha Bandhan | Mithai and gift boxes, packed on camera | The family lunch: brothers and sisters | Bring your brother or sister: a workout for two | Skip it | Rakhis and gift sets, packed on camera | ||
| Dussehra | As in October 2026. | ||||||
| Karva Chauth | As in October 2026. | ||||||
| Dhanteras | As in November 2026. | ||||||
| Diwali and Bandi Chhor Divas | As in November 2026. | ||||||
| Gurpurab of Sri Guru Nanak Dev JiWith care | As in November 2026: greetings, not offers. | ||||||
About the dates
Dates checked on against the Punjab government’s 2026 list, the central government’s 2027 lists and Drik Panchang; Dhanteras and Akshaya Tritiya on , against Drik Panchang. Where they differ, both are shown. Punjab’s own 2027 list usually comes out at the end of November (the 2026 list came out on 26 November 2025); when it does, we check every 2027 row against it.
- Lohri and Maghi, January 2027. Drik Panchang puts Lohri on Thursday 14 January and Makar Sankranti, Maghi, on Friday 15 January, because the sun moves into Capricorn at 9:14 in the evening of the 14th. The central list gives Makar Sankranti as Thursday 14 January, and some calendars print Lohri on Wednesday 13 January. Punjab’s own 2027 list will settle it.
- Holi 2027. The central government’s holiday is Tuesday 23 March, and its restricted list gives Holika Dahan on Monday 22 March. Drik Panchang gives Holika Dahan on Sunday 21 March and Holi on Monday 22 March. In Punjab, 23 March is also the martyrdom day of Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru, so we’d keep the colours to the 22nd. Plan for the whole stretch.
- Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji’s Gurpurab. Friday 15 January 2027 is the central list’s date. Punjab’s 2026 list left this Gurpurab to be announced later.
- Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji’s martyrdom day. We use Punjab’s date, Monday 14 December 2026. Some national lists give a different day.
- The wedding months. Hindu weddings follow the panchang and pause from about mid-December to mid-January. Sikh weddings don’t wait for an auspicious day: the Rehat Maryada says the two families fix the day between them. CAIT, the traders’ body, counted the 2025 season from 1 November. For a hotel or banquet hall, its own diary is the real calendar.
- Dhanteras and Akshaya Tritiya. Drik Panchang’s dates: Dhanteras on Friday 6 November 2026 and Wednesday 27 October 2027, and Akshaya Tritiya on Sunday 9 May 2027. Neither is on Punjab’s list of holidays.
- Summer and Teeyan. Punjab’s schools closed from 1 to 30 June in 2026, by an order of 30 May; the 2027 dates come with Punjab’s 2027 order. Drik Panchang gives Hariyali Teej on Wednesday 4 August 2027, and Teeyan runs from it to the full moon of Sawan.
Where the dates come from
- Government of Punjab, gazetted and restricted holidays for 2026, released 26 November 2025, as printed by Daily Jagran and PR Punjab
- Government of India, Department of Personnel and Training, O.M. of 16 July 2026: gazetted holidays for 2027
- The same O.M.: restricted holidays for 2027
- Drik Panchang, for New Delhi: Lohri 2027, Holika Dahan and Holi 2027, Hariyali Teej 2027, Dhanteras 2026 and 2027, and Akshaya Tritiya 2027
- SGPC, the Sikh Rehat Maryada, the article on Anand Sanskar
- CAIT, the 2025 wedding season, 10 November 2025
- PTC News, Punjab’s schools closed from 1 to 30 June 2026
- United Nations, International Day of Yoga, 21 June; Business Standard, why India marks National Doctors’ Day on 1 July, 1 July 2025
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