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🇱🇰 Festivals in Sri Lanka

28 festivals celebrated in Sri Lanka, across 2 cities and towns.

Cities and towns

Kandy 1 Thinnapuram 1

All Spiritual Cultural National days Seasonal Sports

January 2027 1

Seasonal 14Jan Makar Sankranti🇧🇩 Bangladesh and 6 more countries

Usually in January, date not yet confirmed 1

Seasonal Janvaries Pongal🇮🇳 India and 4 more countries

Shared with much of the world

Celebrated in Sri Lanka and in many other countries.

January 2027 2

Seasonal 1Jan New Year🇧🇩 Bangladesh and 34 more countries

Seasonal 1Jan New Year's Day🇦🇫 Afghanistan and 57 more countries

April 2027 1

Seasonal 13Apr Vaisakhi🇮🇳 India and 14 more countries

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

Pongal: Saral Shots, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
Makar Sankranti: Saloni Desai, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
New Year's Day: Ximeg, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
New Year: Olga1969, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
Vaisakhi: Michael Clark, CC BY 2.0, source

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