Nyepi 2025: Your Guide To The Day Of Silence In Bali
Nyepi 2025 – March 29 2025
The biggest day in Balinese island life, each year, is Nyepi Day. It’s the Hindu day of silence and it’s when busy Bali comes to a complete halt.
For 24 hours, everyone in Bali is expected to stay at home and switch off all their lights, the transport network is shut down and the island descends into silence.
Nyepi is a day when locals visit their families in their Hindu Balinese Villages to spend in prayer, meditation and quiet contemplation.
The time before Nyepi Day, when Balinese Hindus visit families, is spent preparing for the day of silence.
Oddly, none of this preparation is very silent. So, you will hear a lot of sweet local music made on gamelan orchestral instruments and witness plenty of offerings.
Three to four days prior to Nyepi, thousands of Balinese will gather together all of them wearing white to form a procession.They will carry with them the sacred objects from their local temples and carry them into the sea.
This is an act of purification, to help wash away any traces of evil from the past year.
