Lohri is celebrated in North India as a popular harvest festival of farmers. This festival symbolises the ripening of winter crops as well as the start of a new harvesting season. 

The auspicious festival of Lohri is widely celebrated by the people of Haryana and Punjab, particularly by the Hindu and Sikh communities. Lohri, which also goes by the names Lohadi and Lal Loi, falls a day before Makar Sankranti. This year Lohri will be observed on Saturday, January 14, 2023.