Kite Festival, Jaipur

Entire year. Each month new exciting, festive occasion embark upon with custom filled celebrations. Kite festival celebrations are just to about embarking in Jaipur. This festival is predominantly celebrated in Jaipur with so many pretty and wonderful celebrations to cheer up the mood, forget bad memories with new year arrives.

Kite Festival History

The international most joyous Kite festival in Jaipur has astounding performance among competitors. Flying Kite festival is also known as Makar Sankranti. People celebrate such a joyous and blissful event by flying colorful paper kites to enjoy Makar Sankranti. What can be more gleeful than seeing colorful kites on high in the blue sky? Kites come across from crossing sun rays. During the winter season everyone wishes to have dark sunlight to avoid cold feel around. The complete Jaipur city seems colorful where families stand on the rooftop to enjoy flying kites high into the air and sky. Children have full fun and Masti run through streets with colorful paper kites to fly them.

Kite Festival Celebrations

Celebrations are stunning and vibrant in the most popular traditional city Jaipur with magnificent views. The huge public participates, children, adult, and elders have fun frolic custom celebrations. Kite festival is divided into two categories one Kite War and second Friendly Kite Flying activity. Kite festive occasion is exclusively inaugurated at the famous Jaipur Polo Ground. After this, all prize distribution among the winners arranged over three days the Kite festival. It is held in Umaid Bhawan Palace’s royal.

Kites of multi-color enhance charming views all around, including indigo, blue, red, yellow, maroon, fuchsia, and pink etc. All are dazzling with shining sunlight. The flying of the kite, follow the wind flow that is unpredictable, where kites will gather to compete for each other. By winning in this game people feel gleeful and giving company in drum beats, picking up their sticks for dancing. When kites are cut downfalls at a distance and children runs behind them.

The variations of sweets are prepared so delicious a main part of this festival. When it comes to sweets Til Laddu, Gajak and Papdi are deliciously prepared by women on this festive occasion. All neighbors visit each others house and enjoys such a magical event with happiness and joy.

Nothing is unforgettable about the Kite festive occasion because all has been seen traditionally rich and wonderful to create memories in heart. It cheers up the mood of everyone with blissful feelings.

Kite Festival Jaipur Date and Day:-

2025 Festival Date: Tuesday, 14 January

2024 Festival Date: Sunday, 14 January

2023 Festival Date: Saturday, 14 January

2022 Festival Date: Friday, 14 January

2021 Festival Date: Thursday, 14 January

2020 Festival Date: Tuesday, 14 January

2019 Festival Date: Monday, 14 January

2018 Festival Date: Sunday, 14 January

Type : Cultural

Frequency: Annual