Best Diwali LED String Lights India 2026: 7 Compared

The Philips Starlit string is the safe default for a Diwali railing or doorway. Its Amazon.in listing gives 12 metres of wire with 72 LEDs, a draw of 6 W, and an Outdoor rating in the details table. The bullets add that it's weather resistant and that clips come in the box, so you can fix it to a wall or a frame without tape.

On the day we checked it cost ₹219 and held 4.2 stars across 3,036 ratings, #34 in Specialty Lighting. Over a Diwali week of six hours a night, 6 W comes to about a quarter of a unit on your bill. One thing to know before you order: 72 LEDs over 12 metres puts one light about every 17 cm, so it reads as a dotted line, not a dense glow.

• Length: 12 m
• LEDs: 72
• Wattage: 6 W
• Use: Outdoor, per the details table
• Colours: 7, including warm white and cool white
• Warranty: No warranty, per the listing
• Made in: India

If your lights go on a bookshelf, a mirror or a photo wall, a thin copper wire string makes more sense than a mains string. The MANSAA string had the highest score in this group, 4.3 stars across 21,391 ratings, for ₹187. Its listing gives 10 metres with 100 LEDs at 3000 K warm yellow, a 5 V DC USB connection, a 3 W draw and an 18 month warranty, the longest here.

USB power means you can run it from a phone charger or a power bank, so it can sit on a table far from a socket. Keep it indoors, since the listing marks it Indoor only. Its seller rank, #318 in Specialty Lighting, is weak for a listing with that many ratings, which can mean the ratings are shared with other variants of the same product.

• Length: 10 m
• LEDs: 100
• Wattage: 3 W
• Power: USB, 5 V DC
• Colour temperature: 3000 K
• Use: Indoor
• Warranty: 18 months
• Made in: India

The Crompton Galaxy is the same idea as the MANSAA for less money. On the day we checked it cost ₹129, the lowest price of the seven, with 4.2 stars across 10,779 ratings and a rank of #18 in Specialty Lighting. You get 10 metres of copper wire with 100 LEDs, a 5 V USB connection and a 1 year warranty.

Its listing gives the draw as 5 W, a little more than the MANSAA's 3 W, and calls the string water resistant. Treat that as protection from a splash on a windowsill, not a reason to hang it in the rain, because the details table still marks it for indoor use. If you want two matching strings for a pair of windows, this is the cheapest way to do it here.

• Length: 10 m
• LEDs: 100
• Wattage: 5 W
• Power: USB, 5 V
• Use: Indoor
• Warranty: 1 year
• Made in: India

For a long balcony railing or a staircase, length matters more than anything, and this Desidiya string gives you 30 metres with 300 LEDs for ₹199. That's three times the length of the copper strings for about the same money, with the same spacing of one LED every 10 cm. It ranked #4 in Specialty Lighting on the day we checked, with 4.0 stars.

Two things hold it back. Its title names balconies, but the details table marks it Indoor and the listing gives no water rating, so keep it under a roof and away from rain. The listing also gives no wattage and no warranty, so you can't work out its running cost from the page.

• Length: 30 m
• LEDs: 300
• Wattage: Not listed
• Power: Corded electric
• Use: Indoor, per the details table
• Warranty: Not listed
• Made in: China

Before you pay: The 13,899 ratings on this page are pooled with other Desidiya listings, so they don't all describe this 30 metre string. Read the reviews that name the 30 metre length before you rely on the score.

A curtain string hangs in drops from one top wire, which suits a window or a glass door better than a single line. This Desidiya curtain was the #1 seller in Specialty Lighting when we checked, with 4.2 stars across 5,451 ratings, for ₹299. You get 150 LEDs with ten star shapes across 3.5 metres, and a button on the adaptor changes the flash mode.

Of these seven, it's the only one with a stated rating against water. Its description gives IP44, which covers water splashed from any direction, and says the adaptor runs the string at 29 V. The details table lists a 12 W draw and marks it for indoor and outdoor use, so a covered balcony door works too.

• Width: 3.5 m, per the title
• LEDs: 150, with 10 stars
• Wattage: 12 W
• Power: Adaptor, 29 V low voltage, per the description
• Water rating: IP44, per the description
• Use: Indoor and outdoor
• Made in: China

Before you pay: The listing disagrees with itself in two places. Its title says 8 flashing modes, but one bullet says 4. The title also gives 3.5 metres, but the details table gives an item length of 400 cm. Check the photos, or ask the seller, before you pay.

If you want the lights to look like Diwali even when they are off, this curtain hangs small diya shapes instead of plain bulbs. It cost ₹349 on the day we checked, with 4.1 stars across 15,175 ratings, the second largest count here, and a rank of #15 in Specialty Lighting. The details table gives 2.5 metres, 138 lights in multicolour, an Outdoor rating and a waterproof feature, and it's made in India.

The weak point is the listing itself. Its bullet points repeat search phrases about Diwali decoration and give no wattage, no plug type and no number of modes. Without a wattage you can't work out what a week of evenings will cost you.

• Width: 2.5 m
• Lights: 138
• Colour: Multicolour
• Wattage: Not listed
• Use: Outdoor, waterproof feature listed
• Warranty: Not listed
• Made in: India

Before you pay: The details table lists Corded Electric as the power source and USB as the connectivity. Look at the plug in the listing photos, or ask the seller, so you know whether you need a wall socket or a USB charger.

Big round bulbs on a cable, the kind you see over cafe patios, give a terrace or a rooftop dinner more light than any fairy string. The fizzytech set gives 10 metres with 20 warm white E26 bulbs at 3000 K and 1500 lumens, for ₹1,616, the highest price here by a long way. It held 4.0 stars across 7,510 ratings and ranked #72 in Specialty Lighting.

It also draws the most power, 50 W per the details table. Over a Diwali week of six hours a night, that comes to about 2.1 units, more than the other strings with a listed wattage put together. Its bullets suggest covered celebration areas, and that is the safe place for it.

• Length: 10 m
• Bulbs: 20 E26 bulbs, per the title
• Wattage: 50 W
• Brightness: 1500 lumens
• Colour temperature: 3000 K
• Water rating: IP30
• Warranty: Not listed
• Made in: India

Before you pay: The listing says waterproof, but the details table gives IP30. In an IP code the second digit covers water, and 0 means no protection against water, so hang this set under a roof. The title says 20 LED bulbs while the details table counts 25 lights, and the table lists both button control and app control. Ask the seller which is right before you pay.