12 Jyotirlingas (canonical order)

The twelve Jyotirlingas in the traditional listing from Somnath to Grishneshwar. Almost nobody completes all twelve in one continuous tour; most families do a West-coast cluster, a Central India pair, Kashi, Deoghar, Rameshwaram, and Kedarnath as separate pilgrimages.

Duration: 3–5 separate trips (or 3–4 weeks if done as one yatra) · Season: Oct–Mar for plains; May–June / Sept–Oct for Kedarnath

  1. Stop 1: Somnath Jyotirlinga — Prabhas Patan, Veraval, Gujarat
  2. Stop 2: Mallikarjuna Jyotirlinga (Srisailam) — Srisailam, Andhra Pradesh
  3. Stop 3: Mahakaleshwar Jyotirlinga — Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh
  4. Stop 4: Omkareshwar Jyotirlinga — Khandwa district, Madhya Pradesh
  5. Stop 5: Kedarnath Jyotirlinga — Kedarnath, Rudraprayag, Uttarakhand
  6. Stop 6: Bhimashankar Jyotirlinga — Pune district, Maharashtra
  7. Stop 7: Kashi Vishwanath Jyotirlinga — Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
  8. Stop 8: Trimbakeshwar Jyotirlinga — Trimbak, Nashik, Maharashtra
  9. Stop 9: Baidyanath Jyotirlinga (Deoghar) — Deoghar, Jharkhand
  10. Stop 10: Nageshwar Jyotirlinga — near Dwarka, Gujarat
  11. Stop 11: Rameshwaram Jyotirlinga — Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu
  12. Stop 12: Grishneshwar Jyotirlinga — Verul, near Aurangabad, Maharashtra