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The cattle calendar

63 cattle fairs, festivals, pasture days, races and shows of the year, with the breeds at the centre of each. Dates are worked out afresh every day; those marked "about" follow the moon or local calendars and can shift by a day.

Kind of dayAll Cattle festivals Pasture and transhumance Religious days Seasonal Cattle fairs and markets National and breed days Races, contests and shows

November 2026

about 17 to 24 Nov 2026Pushkar Camel and Cattle FairA week of trading on the dunes round Pushkar's lake, ending at the full moon of Kartik; camels lead, but cattle are sold too.

about 24 Nov to 23 Dec 2026Sonepur MelaThe month-long fair at the meeting of the Ganges and the Gandak in Bihar, once the largest cattle fair in Asia.

February 2027

about 12 to 15 Feb 2027Nagaur Cattle FairRajasthan's great winter livestock fair at Nagaur, where the trotting Nagori bullock is the main business of the day.

May 2027

about 7 to 16 May 2027Eid al-Adha cattle marketsIn the first days of Dhu al-Hijjah, temporary cattle markets fill the cities of Bangladesh and Pakistan before Eid al-Adha.

August 2027

about 19 to 21 Aug 2027Hortobágy Bridge FairA summer fair at the Nine-holed Bridge on the Hungarian puszta, home of the grey long-horned cattle of the plain.

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

Pushkar Fair: sheetal saini, CC BY 2.0, source
Sonepur Mela: Abhifrm.masaurhi at English Wikipedia, CC0, source
Nagaur Cattle Fair: Rituraj.bharti, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Eid Al Adha Cattle Markets: Chongkian, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
Hortobagy Bridge Fair: Andreas Poeschek , fotografikus.hu, CC BY 2.0 at, source

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