# Holi 2027

- Date: March 22, 2027, 12:00 AM (UTC) — 2027-03-22T00:00:00.000Z
- Category: Holidays
- Page: https://www.watchisup.com/holidays/holi

Live Holi 2027 countdown: how many days until the festival of colours? Holi follows the Hindu lunar calendar, so the date shifts each year — this tracks the real one.

Holi follows the **Hindu lunisolar calendar** and therefore moves in the Gregorian year: it falls on the full moon of Phalguna, usually in March, occasionally in late February. This countdown tracks the real date, recomputed each year.

**Two nights, two moods.** Holi is not one event but two:
- **Holika Dahan**, the evening before, when bonfires are lit. It recalls the story of Prahlada and the burning of the demoness Holika — the triumph of devotion over tyranny.
- **Rangwali Holi**, the following morning, when coloured powder and water are thrown in the street. Age, caste and rank are set aside for the day; the phrase *bura na mano, Holi hai* — do not take offence, it is Holi — licenses the disorder.

**The colours have meanings**, though they vary by region: red for love and fertility, yellow for turmeric and healing, green for spring and new beginnings, blue for Krishna.

**It is a spring festival first.** Holi marks the end of winter and the coming harvest, which is why it is celebrated most intensely in the agricultural north — Mathura and Vrindavan, associated with Krishna's childhood, draw visitors for a week rather than a day.

Holi is a public holiday in India and Nepal, and widely marked in Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Mauritius and Fiji.

Holi is a day of pictures, so this countdown can become one. **Photo & camera mode** lays the timer over your own photo, or over the live camera, and gives you the file in story, square or landscape — nothing leaves your device. For any other date, create your own timer.