Magh Bihu 2026 মাঘ বিহু 2026

Magh Bihu 2026: dates and times

A midweek Bihu

With Uruka on a Wednesday, most families travelled home on the Tuesday or early Wednesday, built the bhelaghar and meji by evening, and lit the meji before sunrise (06:13 in Guwahati) on Thursday. The state holiday covered the Bihu day itself.

Uruka: the night of the feast

On the last day of Puh, villages and neighbourhoods build a bhelaghar — a hut of hay and bamboo — and a tall meji beside it. Friends and relatives cook together in the open: fish, meat, rice and pitha, eaten late into the night around the fire.

Bihu morning: lighting the meji

Before sunrise on Magh Bihu, people bathe and set the meji alight, offering pitha and betel nut to the fire and praying for a good harvest. Ashes and half-burnt bamboo are later scattered in the fields and around fruit trees.

Jolpan and pitha

Bhogali means 'of feasting'. Breakfast is jolpan — chira or muri with doi and gur — followed for days by til pitha, ghila pitha, narikol laru and til laru sent from house to house.