📍 Festival📍 Cultural🛕 Religious

Chhath Puja on the Ganga Ghats

Patna, Bihar, India

4.8 (0)

Overview

Bihar's grandest festival — hundreds of thousands on the Ganga ghats at dawn and dusk, offering arghya to the setting and rising sun in a river of lamps.

Why visit: The most moving mass ritual you can witness in India.

Things to do

›Sunset & sunrise arghya
›Ghats of lamps
›Thekua prasad
›Folk Chhath songs

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Travel Information

Best time

Oct–Nov (Chhath)

Entry fee

Free

Est. budget

₹100–500

Duration

1–2 days

Nearby attractions

Within

1 km

🍲 Local Experience

4.1

Sabhyata Dwar & Marine Drive, Patna

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🍲 Local Experience

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Gandhi Maidan & Ghat, Patna

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📍 Museum

4.2

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4.3

Golghar, Patna

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The 1786 beehive granary built after a famine — a 29-m stupa-shaped dome with twin spiral stairways and a rooftop panorama over the Ganga.

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🍲 Local Experience

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🪂 Adventure

4.2

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4.3

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🐅 Wildlife

4.1

Sanjay Gandhi Biological Park (Patna Zoo)

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📍 Museum

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