Festival Calendar
Festivals in Sikkim
7 festivals across Sikkim — organized by month
February
Losar
Gangtok
Tibetan Buddhist New Year — masked Cham dances at monasteries, ritual offerings, butter sculptures, community feasting, and monastery rituals across Sikkim and Arunachal.
Losar (Tibetan/Sikkimese New Year)
Gangtok
The Tibetan New Year is celebrated across Gangtok with monastery rituals, Cham dances, traditional food, and community gatherings.
May
Saga Dawa
Gangtok
The holiest month in the Tibetan Buddhist calendar. Monastery pujas, sacred Cham dances, circumambulation of sacred peaks, and the dramatic unfurling of the Thangka at Rumtek.
June
Saga Dawa
Gangtok
The holiest Buddhist festival marking Buddha's birth, enlightenment, and parinirvana. Devotees circumambulate monasteries and release caged birds.
Saga Dawa
Pelling
Buddhist faithful from the region gather at Pemayangtse Monastery for prayers, butter lamp offerings, and circumambulation on this sacred day.
August
Pang Lhabsol
Pelling
Celebrated at Pemayangtse Monastery near Pelling with sacred warrior dances honouring Mount Kanchenjunga as the guardian deity of Sikkim.
Pang Lhabsol
Gangtok
A grand festival unique to Sikkim celebrating the guardian deity Kanchenjunga with the spectacular Warrior Dance performed by monks in elaborate costumes.