Holi is celebrated at the end of winter and the beginning of spring, on the last full moon day of the Hindu luni-solar calendar month of Falgun. The date of the festival varies depending on the ...

In 2025, Holi will fall on Friday, March 14. But the festivities begin the night before; Holi is actually a two-day festival (and in some regions, the festivities can last up to a week).

Holi — also known as the Festival of Colors, Love, and Spring — is traditionally celebrated for a night and day on the last full moon day of the Hindu luni-solar calendar month, and ...

A priest sprays colored powder and water on devotees during celebrations of Holi, the Hindu festival of colors, at the Kalupur Swaminarayan temple in Ahmedabad, India, Friday, March 14, 2025.

In recent years, the numbers have been close to 70,000 over two days. The festival of Holi is popular in India and Nepal, where Hindus throw colored, dry powder and water at one another in ...

Holi is celebrated at the end of winter and the beginning of spring, on the last full moon day of the Hindu luni-solar calendar month of Falgun. The date of the festival varies depending on the ...

The Holi festival also has ties to a more light-hearted religious tale. Some people believe that colored powders are thrown because the god Krishna used to playfully throw colorful water over his ...

Holi is celebrated at the end of winter and the beginning of spring, on the last full moon day of the Hindu luni-solar calendar month of Falgun. The date of the festival varies depending on the ...