About
About Puja Parikrama
A free companion for Kolkata's pujas
Pandal hopping in Kolkata is wonderful and exhausting in equal measure. Puja Parikrama exists to take the guesswork out of it: where the pandals are, which ones sit close together, how long the walk is, and what the queue looks like right now.
What you can do
Every pandal on one map
Browse pandals across the city, search by name or area, and see the nearest metro station with the walk from it.
A route built for walking
Pick your area, your start point and your hours. The planner orders the pandals into a sensible walking route with arrival times.
Save your plans
Keep the routes you build, reopen them later, and mark pandals as visited as you go.
Live crowd and rain
People at a pandal can report how long the queue is and whether it is raining. Reports stay valid for thirty minutes.
Metro and transit
Metro stations on the map, with the walking distance from each pandal, so you can plan how to get there.
Six festivals, one app
Durga Puja, Kali Puja, Jagadhatri Puja, Kartik Puja, Saraswati Puja and Santipur Rash, each with its own look.
What is inside
Counted from the app's own data, not from estimates.
- Pandals mapped
- 187
- Districts covered
- 8
- Metro stations
- 37
- Festivals
- 6
Why it was built
Most people plan their pandal hopping from memory, group chats and whatever they can find online at the last minute. That works until you are standing on a crowded street wondering which way to walk next, or queuing for an hour at a pandal that was quiet twenty minutes earlier.
Puja Parikrama started as an attempt to put the useful parts in one place: a proper map, a route that respects how long a walk actually takes, and updates from people who are already there. It is free, and it is built for Kolkata first.
Who made it
Spotted something wrong?
Missing pandals and wrong details are worth telling us about. Write to growwithhustler@gmail.com