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Kite flying is legal in Punjab only during the announced festival window. Until the government permits sale for Basant 2027, we take reservations only: reserve free and pay the market rate on delivery day, or pay 50% now to lock today's price. Nothing ships before sale is permitted.
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Dates, status and what is actually confirmed about the festival, updated as announcements land.
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Basant 2026 ran 6–8 February, the first legal festival since 2007. The Kite Flying Association put the trade surge at Rs 1.5 billion. Seventeen people died and more than a hundred accidents were recorded. Both figures matter for 2027.
Ordinary kite flyers do not need a personal licence — registration is for kite manufacturers, sellers and kite-flying clubs, and it runs through the e-Biz app and basant.punjab.gov.pk. Registration for Basant 2027 has not opened yet: the dates (12–14 March 2027) are announced, but the government has not yet started the 2027 registration cycle. This page tracks it.
Basant 2027 falls on Friday 12 to Sunday 14 March in Lahore, so most of the festival already sits on the weekend. In 2026 the Punjab government notified public holidays for the Friday and Saturday of the festival, creating a long weekend; a similar notification for 2027 has not been issued yet, and this page updates when it is.
Basant is Lahore's spring festival, celebrated by flying kites from rooftops across the city — days of aerial duels, yellow clothes, drums and food, ending in night flying under floodlights. Banned for nearly two decades over illegal-string deaths, it returned legally in February 2026 under strict rules and is next scheduled for 12–14 March 2027.
Basant is Lahore's centuries-old spring festival, its kite-flying tradition running from the Mughal era through the city's golden festival decades. Deaths from glass- and chemical-coated string brought regulations in 2005 and a provincial ban that took effect in 2007. The Punjab Regulation of Kite Flying Ordinance 2025 rebuilt it on licences and traceable kites, and Lahore flew legally again on 6–8 February 2026.
Basant 2027 is on 12, 13 and 14 March in Lahore — Friday to Sunday — announced by the Punjab Chief Minister. The dates are official; what's still pending is the commercial side: manufacturing and sale permits for kites and dor had not been issued as of late August 2026, so no seller can legally deliver yet.
Basant is celebrated in Lahore because the city's dense, flat-roofed old quarters made it the natural stage for Punjab's spring kite tradition — thousands of adjoining rooftops turning one festival into a city-wide aerial duel. It isn't exclusively Lahori: spring festivals exist across Punjab, but Lahore's rooftop kite culture made the festival its own, and today Punjab is the only Pakistani province with a legal framework for it.
Basant 2027 runs 12–14 March in Lahore — about five weeks later than 2026's 6–8 February festival — under a stricter rooftop-safety framework that must be in force across Punjab by 30 December 2026. The kite-side rules are unchanged (QR-verified kites, cotton pinna only, adult flyers); what tightens is the rooftop: wall heights, crowd limits, child supervision, noise, and joint legal liability for owners and organisers.
No. As of 29 August 2026, Basant 2027 is not cancelled — the festival stands as announced for 12–14 March 2027 in Lahore, and no official cancellation or restriction has been issued. The rumour recurs for a real reason: the festival operates under Lahore High Court scrutiny following 2026's seventeen deaths, so every hearing produces headlines that travel as "Basant cancelled?" This page holds the dated status and updates on every actual development.
Moving Basant from early February to 12–14 March shifts the festival into genuinely different weather: Lahore's February averages highs near 24°C with cool 8°C nights, while March runs highs around 30°C with 14°C nights and livelier afternoon thermals. For flying, that means stronger daytime lift favouring bigger kites; for hosting, warmer days, gentler nights, and hydration mattering more than blankets.