Last updated: October 2026 · Method: compiled from public listings, operator pages and traveller reports; treat all figures as planning aids, not quotations.
📄 Image slot — a full moon over a lake fairground with tents and lights.
The Kolayat fair anchors to Kartik Purnima, the full moon of the lunar month, which makes its date predictable in principle and movable in practice.
Planning on the moon
- The logic: find Kartik Purnima on any lunar calendar for late 2027 and you have the fair’s core night; the trading and cultural sides run for days around it.
- Confirmation: the official notification lands close to the date, trust the lunar calculation for planning and the official notice for booking.
- The surge: fair nights fill every bed in and around the lake, the stay-options guide covers the thin local layer, and Bikaner’s hotels price the surge too.
For photographers: the full-moon night over the lit ghats is the shot the fair exists for, the ghat walk maps the positions.