Haridwar
Haridwar is a city and municipal corporation in the Haridwar district of Uttarakhand, India. With a population of 228,832 according to 2011 census, it is the second-largest city in the state and the largest in the district. Wikipedia
Before you go
Emergency numbers in India
- January: 10 h 25 of daylight
- February: 11 h 08 of daylight
- March: 11 h 57 of daylight
- April: 12 h 53 of daylight
- May: 13 h 39 of daylight
- June: 14 h 04 of daylight
- July: 13 h 54 of daylight
- August: 13 h 15 of daylight
- September: 12 h 22 of daylight
- October: 11 h 29 of daylight
- November: 10 h 40 of daylight
- December: 10 h 14 of daylight
Getting there
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Best-documented sights
All of them in the guide
Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.
Through the year
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Baisakhi
April
It is held in the month of April and devotees from Jharkhand, Bihar, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and Haryana converge here to celebrate the auspicious festival Baisakhi
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Kanwar Mela
July
July. The largest yearly festival, drawing up to 300,000 visitors
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Kartik Purnima
November
Kartik Purnima held 15 days after Diwali on the first night of the full moon in November
3 events here have no dates for this year yet. We can look them up on each event's own site.
Annual events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage (Haridwar); descriptions from Wikipedia where it has one, photos from Wikimedia Commons. Dates move year to year — check before you plan around one.
Somewhere to run
Places © OpenStreetMap contributors, as of 17 October 2026. Description from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage, population from Wikidata.