An independent calendar for India.

Why this site exists

The best reason to pick your travel dates is often a festival, an event, or an attraction with tickets so hard to get that landing one settles the whole trip. The trouble is that the dates and the ticket windows are scattered across hundreds of official sites, many of them published in Hindi or a regional language first, and most change a little every year.

We built India What's On with the same method as our sister sites: every listing is checked against the organiser or an official source, the state tourism boards and the Incredible India portal included, and the concert spine comes from the platforms India actually buys from, BookMyShow and District by Zomato. We know which festivals are worth crossing the country for, which weekends fill the arenas' districts, and which dates are still only tradition until the organiser publishes.

So we collect the things that can move a flight booking or anchor a trip: the stadium tours and the festival stack, Hornbill in Nagaland and Sunburn in Goa, the Test matches and the marathon season, the literature festival and the art biennales, the big expos at Bharat Mandapam, HITEX and the India Expo Mart, and the attractions people build a visit around. Every record is checked before it goes live and re-checked on a rolling basis; the check date is shown on the event page.

Some dates are not published when we first list an event. Those are labelled a tentative date everywhere they appear, with the basis explained on the event page. We would rather show you an honest window than a confident guess.

The family

India What's On is the sister site of Japan What's On, Thailand What's On, Hong Kong Happenings, Singapore Happenings, Taiwan What's On, Philippines What's On, Malaysia What's On, Korea What's On, Macau What's On and Macau Deals, part of the Maison V group of travel sites, built and run by the same team. Maison V is our travel advisory, where the same research goes into planning complete journeys.

For organisers

Run an event in India that is not on this calendar yet? Send it through the submit an event form. Every submission is reviewed against the organiser's official page before anything is published, nothing goes live automatically, and a listing is free.

How we make money

India What's On is free to read and funded by affiliate commission. When you book through a button marked "affiliate link", the seller (Trip.com, Klook or another partner) pays us a commission. The price you pay is set by the seller and does not change because you used our link. Buttons marked "via Maison V" go to our sister company, which earns advisor commission on the stays it books. Commission never decides whether an event is listed or how it is described, and we do not accept payment for listings.

Event, venue, attraction and company names are the trademarks of their owners and are used here to identify them. India What's On is not affiliated with or endorsed by any organiser, venue or booking partner.