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Ima Keithel in November
The 500-year-old all-women market.
Quick answer. Dry and cool. The strongest wildlife and festival month. For Ima Keithel specifically, November is a comfortable month with the usual hill-state caveats.
The essentials
- Tradition
- Women-only traders
- Position
- Central Imphal
- Month
- November, Manipur
- This month
- Dry and cool.
Why November here
Asia’s famous women-only market: thousands of Imas running the trade of the valley.
Ima Keithel, the Mothers’ Market, is Imphal’s historic market run entirely by women: thousands of licensed female traders selling produce, textiles, fish and handicraft from a complex of halls, a tradition centuries old and unique in scale.
Wildlife this month: Migratory birds arrive at Keibul Lamjao and Loktak.
What to do
The halls
Rows of Imas under one enormous roof.
Elsewhere in Manipur in November
The wider Manipur calendar this month: Ningol Chakkouba (lunar, Nov), Kut (Chavang Kut, November 1, 2026), Sangai Festival window (announced annually). Dates shift with harvests and moons; we confirm them when you plan.
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Ima Keithel in November, planned properly
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