Lohri 2024: The festival of Lohri is one of the major festivals of Sikhs and Punjabis. This festival is celebrated every year a day before Makar Sankranti. According to the calendar, in the year 2025, the festival of Lohri will be celebrated on 13 January 2025. Let us tell you that the festival of Lohri is mainly celebrated to celebrate the arrival of the new crop. With this, the winter season starts ending from the day of Lohri. Let us know when the festival of Lohri will be celebrated in the year 2025 and about its importance.

When is Lohri festival?

According to the calendar, in the year 2025, the festival of Lohri will be celebrated on 13 January 2025. In the year 2024, the Sankranti moment of Lohri will be on 14 January 2025 at 09:03 am. In such a situation, the festival of Makar Sankranti will be celebrated on 14 January 2025.

Worship Lohri like this

On the day of Lohri, people should wake up in the morning, take bath and wear clean or new clothes.
After this, offer water to the Sun God in the morning and remember the Lohri God.

On this day, dry wood and dried cow dung cakes are burnt in the evening.

Offer peanuts, rebri and gajak in the fire of Lohri.

After this one should circumambulate this sacred fire 7 times.
After that one should sing and dance around that fire.

importance of lohri

Lohri has great importance in India. This festival is celebrated with great enthusiasm in Punjab. This festival has both religious and cultural importance. In Punjab, this festival is celebrated during harvest. Along with this, prayers are made to God for a good harvest to come. The festival of Lohri is considered to mark the end of autumn. From then onwards the nights start getting shorter and the days start getting longer. On the day of Lohri, gratitude is expressed to the Sun God by offering Rabi crops in the fire.