Our ground team at Ayodhya Varanasi Guides compiles and re-verifies temple timings across the year. What you see on this page is not scraped from a third-party source or copied from a generic travel website — it comes from our guides walking pilgrims through each temple's darshan system, noting every seasonal shift, and cross-checking aarti times on the ground.
The result: 2026 darshan and aarti schedules for 30+ temples spread across Ayodhya, Varanasi and Prayagraj. Every entry includes both the summer timetable (April – September) and the winter timetable (October – March), because temples shift their schedules between seasons — a detail that trips up thousands of pilgrims every year.
These temples do not run on a single open-close schedule. Major shrines like Ram Mandir and Kashi Vishwanath follow a sequence of daily aartis (Mangala, Shringar, Bhog, Sandhya and Shayan) with rest periods for the deity in between. Ram Mandir, for instance, pauses general darshan around the late-morning bhog — arriving then is one of the most common mistakes first-time visitors make.
The most time-efficient approach: plan morning darshan before 11 AM for quiet, unhurried visits, and schedule your evening around the 6:00–7:30 PM aarti window — the Saryu Aarti in Ayodhya and the Ganga Aarti in Varanasi — for the most spiritually charged moments.
