Phool Dei · Phool Sankranti Festival The children’s festival of the hills, and the day the Pahari spring is let into the house.
Phool Dei · Phool Sankranti 2027 falls on Monday, 15 March, computed for Chennai.
The name
The same day, in every language that has a word for it
- English
- Phool Dei · Phool Sankranti
- कुमाउँनी
- फूल देई
- गढ़वाली
- फुलदेई
Only the names actually in use are listed. A blank script is not an omission: the day may simply not be kept there, or be kept under a different festival's name.
Asia/Kolkata · UTC+5:30
The date of a festival depends on the place: a tithi that ends at dusk in Chennai can still be running at dusk a thousand kilometres west, which moves the day. Sunrise and sunset here are computed for the place above.
When it falls next
Himachal · Uttarakhand calendar, computed for Chennai
- Monday, 15 March 2027
- Tuesday, 14 March 2028
- Wednesday, 14 March 2029
Where Phool Dei · Phool Sankranti falls on the solar year, and how far the date moves between occurrences.
- 2027: 15 Mar
- 2028: 14 Mar
- 2029: 14 Mar
The dates, year by year
Himachal · Uttarakhand calendar, computed for Chennai
| Year | Phool Dei · Phool Sankranti |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Friday, 14 March 2025 |
| 2026 | Sunday, 15 March 2026 |
| 2027 | Monday, 15 March 2027 |
| 2028 | Tuesday, 14 March 2028 |
| 2029 | Wednesday, 14 March 2029 |
| 2030 | Friday, 15 March 2030 |
| 2031 | Saturday, 15 March 2031 |
| 2032 | Sunday, 14 March 2032 |
| 2033 | Monday, 14 March 2033 |
| 2034 | Wednesday, 15 March 2034 |
| 2035 | Thursday, 15 March 2035 |
| 2036 | Friday, 14 March 2036 |
Worked out for Chennai, Lahiri ayanamsa. A date is a function of the place: set yours above and the next three come back for where you are.
What the day is
The children’s festival of the hills, and the day the Pahari spring is let into the house. The girls and the small children of the village go from door to door at first light with a thali of rice, jaggery, coconut and the first flowers after the snow, the yellow phyonli and the red buransh, scatter them on each threshold and sing phool dei, chhamma dei, daini dwar, bhar bhakar, flowers at your door and may your granary be full. They are given jaggery, rice, ghee and a coin at every house, and no child is sent away empty. The month it opens is the month of the bhitauli, when a brother carries grain, cloth and sweets to the sister who has been married away.
- Deity
- Surya
- Kind
- Festival Days of celebration: the house is decorated, a feast is cooked and the temple is visited.
The hour
Clock times for Monday, 15 March 2027 at Chennai
The first day of the solar month of Chait, which is the gate day the Sun enters Meena, in the middle of March.
This day carries no instant that can be put on a clock: it is fixed by the tithi or the nakshatra running at sunrise, or by a moonrise the app does not compute. The rule above is the whole of it.
The fast
No fast. Saiy, the sweet pudding of rice flour and jaggery set in a leaf cup, is made for the children and sent back with them.
Where the regions differ
Kumaon keeps the one morning and parts of Garhwal keep the children’s round going for eight days or for the whole month of Chait. The Himachal hills keep the Meena sangrand quietly and have no Phool Dei of their own, which makes this one of the few days in this tradition that is Uttarakhand’s alone.
The dates above are the Himachal · Uttarakhand reckoning, because that is the calendar this key belongs to. Switch the tradition on the calendar page to see how another one dates the same day.
Every date here is computed from the Sun and Moon for the place entered, by the rule printed beside it. A printed panchangam can differ by a day where an almanac reads a tithi at a different instant, and a family's own custom always comes first. Where the practice genuinely varies, the text says so rather than choosing for you.