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Season recap · 2026

Bada Mangal 2026 is complete.

May 5 to June 23. Eight Tuesdays, one city, one app that Lucknow built together. Here's the whole season, in numbers.

May 5 – June 23, 2026Rare 8-Tuesday year · Adhik Maas

What the city did

This season, so far

These numbers are pulled live from the database right now, the same truth the site shows every day.

  1. Total bhandaras tracked

  2. Bhandaras listed

  3. Bhandaras spotted

  4. WhatsApp community

  5. Total site visitors

  6. Neighbourhoods reached

This season's live, database-verified total.

Digital reach

Lucknow searched, and found us

Confirmed figures from Google Analytics and Search Console, from launch (May 12) through June 24.

as of June 24, 2026

1,770
May
6,004
June

+239% Month-over-month growth (May → June)

  1. 8,726

    Total users (May-Jun)

  2. 38,929

    Total page views

  3. 18,319

    Live map views

  4. 4,906

    Google search clicks

  5. 24,804

    Search impressions

  6. 19.78%

    Search CTR

#1 on Google for searches like "bada mangal.com" and "bhandara near me".

Press

Three radio stations, one week

In the last week of June, Lucknow's three biggest radio stations sat down with the BadaMangal story.

  • Radio Mirchi logo

    Radio Mirchi · 98.3 FM

    with RJ Tashi

    June 18, 2026

  • Big FM logo

    Big FM · 94.3 FM

    with RJ Pinky

    June 22, 2026

  • Fever FM logo

    Fever FM · 104.0 FM

    with RJ Sneha

    June 23 · the 8th Bada Mangal

Social

The internet noticed

An account that started with about 100 followers reached over a million views, almost entirely organic, almost entirely non-followers.

1M+

Instagram reel views

7,80,000+ accounts reached, starting from just 98 followers

4,98,924

Reel #1 views

4,17,188 accounts reached

4,25,870

Reel #2 views

3,43,677 accounts reached

10K+one post on r/lucknow

Beyond Lucknow

Watched from outside the city too

Mostly Lucknow (~73%), but from Delhi to Bengaluru, homesick Lucknowites tuned in too.

  1. Delhi259
  2. Kanpur189
  3. New Delhi155
  4. Varanasi150
  5. Prayagraj114
  6. Bengaluru88
  7. Noida62
  8. Gorakhpur54
  9. Mumbai41
  10. Pune35

The eight Tuesdays

Eight Tuesdays of 2026

Adhik Maas brings 8 Bada Mangals this season. Last seen in 2007, next in 2045.

  1. May

  2. May

  3. May

  4. May

  5. Jun

  6. Jun

  7. Jun

  8. Jun

Jai Hanuman

This isn't a company's success story. It's Lucknow's.

Every listed bhandara, every spotted photo, every forwarded pamphlet, someone sent it in. We just built the map.

॥ जय श्री राम · जय हनुमान ॥

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