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Bengali New Year (Bangladesh)

Bengali New Year (Bangladesh)

Bengali new year
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🗓️ 14 April 2026

Pohela Boishakh is the Bengali New Year celebrated by the Bengali people worldwide and as a holiday on 14 April in Bangladesh and 15 April or 14 April in the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura, Jharkhand and Assam. It is a festival based on the spring harvest—which marks the first day of the new year in the Bengali calendar.

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