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Kashmir Tulip Festival

Asia's largest tulip garden in full bloom

25 Mar – 15 Apr 2027Srinagar, Jammu and KashmirHigh crowdIn 335 days
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Significance

Planted in 2006 by J&K's then-CM Ghulam Nabi Azad as a tourism catalyst after the militancy years. The garden opens briefly each spring — a tight two-week window that draws half a million visitors.

1.7 million tulips in 68 varieties bloom across 30 hectares on the foothills of Zabarwan — Asia's biggest tulip garden. Open for only 2–3 weeks before the flowers wilt under the summer heat. Kashmiri pheran-clad folk performances daily.

First-time visitor

Stay on a Dal Lake houseboat, visit the Tulip Garden at 9:30 AM, end the day on a shikara.

What to see

  • Dawn garden walk before tour buses arrive
  • Kashmiri folk performances daily
  • Kahwa tea stalls across the gardens
  • Shikara ride combo on Dal Lake

Festival foods

Kahwa (saffron tea)Rogan JoshWazwan (if you can get invited)

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Travel tips

  1. 1Open only 10 AM–7 PM — plan the Dal Lake shikara before
  2. 2Peak bloom is the first week of April usually
  3. 3Srinagar flights cheapest booked 60 days ahead

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The summer capital of Kashmir — a city strung along a 22 sq km lake, where cedarwood shikaras carry travellers past floating vegetable gardens, 17th-century Mughal pleasure gardens, and hand-carved houseboats that have been home to honeymooners since 1888.

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About Kashmir Tulip Festival

Kashmir Tulip Festival 2027 is scheduled for 25 Mar – 15 Apr 2027. That's 335 days from today.

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