Samkranthi

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Makar Sankranti - Hindu festival that reveres Surya (sun god). This event is the 746^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 365^th most popular event in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Samkranthi” in Simple English Wikipedia has 0.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.03 points.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 365^th most popular in events in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 746^th most popular in events.

Since the creation of article “Samkranthi”, its content was written by 9 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 922 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Makar Sankranti is on the 365^th place in local ranking of events in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 746^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 28 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 13886 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #528 in January 2020
• Global: #831 in January 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1384 in January 2016
• Global: #858 in January 2024

There are 19 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Makar Sankranti		83.2536
2	Hindi (hi) मकर संक्रान्ति		60.1702
3	Spanish (es) Makar Sankranti		50.9009
4	Malay (ms) Makara Sankranti		29.9518
5	Thai (th) มกรสังกรานติ		28.8176
6	French (fr) Makar Sankranti		23.0709
7	German (de) Makar Sankranti		20.1096
8	Polish (pl) Makar sankranti		16.9005
9	Ukrainian (uk) Макара-санкранті		13.4351
10	Persian (fa) ماکار سانکرانتی		11.809

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Makar Sankranti		7 754 717
2	Hindi (hi) मकर संक्रान्ति		2 272 109
3	German (de) Makar Sankranti		81 774
4	Tamil (ta) மகர சங்கராந்தி		67 022
5	Russian (ru) Макара-санкранти		48 545
6	Spanish (es) Makar Sankranti		35 971
7	Swedish (sv) Sankranthi		21 756
8	Polish (pl) Makar sankranti		19 331
9	Simple English (simple) Samkranthi		17 882
10	Dutch (nl) Makar Sankranti		14 229

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Makar Sankranti		12 824
2	Hindi (hi) मकर संक्रान्ति		659
3	Spanish (es) Makar Sankranti		71
4	German (de) Makar Sankranti		61
5	Persian (fa) ماکار سانکرانتی		43
6	Russian (ru) Макара-санкранти		34
7	Tamil (ta) மகர சங்கராந்தி		30
8	French (fr) Makar Sankranti		22
9	Dutch (nl) Makar Sankranti		19
10	Simple English (simple) Samkranthi		15

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Makar Sankranti		665
2	Hindi (hi) मकर संक्रान्ति		110
3	German (de) Makar Sankranti		35
4	Persian (fa) ماکار سانکرانتی		14
5	Tamil (ta) மகர சங்கராந்தி		14
6	Russian (ru) Макара-санкранти		12
7	Polish (pl) Makar sankranti		10
8	Spanish (es) Makar Sankranti		9
9	Simple English (simple) Samkranthi		9
10	Swedish (sv) Sankranthi		9

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Makar Sankranti		0
2	English (en) Makar Sankranti		0
3	Spanish (es) Makar Sankranti		0
4	Persian (fa) ماکار سانکرانتی		0
5	French (fr) Makar Sankranti		0
6	Hindi (hi) मकर संक्रान्ति		0
7	Indonesian (id) Makar Sankranti		0
8	Malay (ms) Makara Sankranti		0
9	Dutch (nl) Makar Sankranti		0
10	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Sankranti		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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