Free yatra kit
Everything here is free for personal use: print it, keep it on your phone or share it with the family you travel with. The files are built from the same checked facts as the temple pages.
For the wall and your phone
To print and carry
Temple cards
A4 PDF, 12 pages, one per temple, 950 KB
- Nearest station, airport, best season and opening on top
- The day timetable: aartis, darshan hours and breaks
- Whether darshan is free and how paid darshan or pujas are booked
- The dress, phone and footwear rules, and how you get to the gate
- Print only the pages for the temples on your route
Packing list
A4 PDF, 1 page, 95 KB
- Papers and money: photo ID, bookings saved offline, cash in small notes
- Temple clothes: modest wear, a dhoti or saree for rituals in the sanctum, a shawl
- Feet and the day: slip-on footwear, socks for stone floors, water and a cap for the queues
- Phone and health: power bank, offline maps, your regular medicines
- A separate Kedarnath list: warm layers with the May and October temperatures at the temple, rain gear for July and August, walking shoes, the yatra registration and where to book the helicopter
For your apps
The table as a spreadsheet
CSV, opens in Excel or Google Sheets
- One row per temple, in stotram order
- Name, Hindi name, town and state
- Nearest station and airport, each with road km
- Best season, whether it is open all year, and the map coordinates
Festival dates calendar
ICS, for Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook
- Kedarnath closing for winter: 11 November 2026, 8:30 AM
- Mahashivratri: 6 March 2027
- Shravan 2027 by the northern calendar (19 July to 17 August) and by the Maharashtra, Gujarat and southern calendar (3 to 31 August), with the Shravan Mondays
Map pins for Google My Maps
KML, for Google My Maps or Google Earth
- Twelve pins, one at each temple
- Each pin carries the name, Hindi name, town, state, nearest station and airport
- A link from each pin to its temple page here
Map pins for offline maps
GPX, for Organic Maps, OsmAnd and similar apps
- Twelve waypoints, one at each temple, with the name, town and state
- Works without a mobile signal once imported
How to use the map pins and the calendar
Google My Maps: create a map, choose Import on the first layer and pick the KML file. The twelve appear as pins, and the map opens in Google Maps on any phone signed in to the same account.
Offline maps: open the GPX file in Organic Maps or OsmAnd to keep the twelve pins without a signal.
Calendar: open the .ics file on your phone, or import it in Google Calendar under Settings, Import. It holds only dates this site has checked, and gains next year's dates once they are announced.