About

This is a clean, source-checked Nepali Patro for everyone who needs to know what day it is in Bikram Sambat — and what's happening on the calendar around them.

What's on this site

• The full BS calendar for the current Nepali year, with daily tithi.
• Every festival of the year — Hindu, Buddhist, indigenous Janajati, civic — with bilingual names, BS and Gregorian dates, and a one-line context.
• A page per festival per year, so Dashain 2083 and Dashain 2084 each have their own permanent URL.
• An AD ↔ BS converter that covers 1970–2099 BS.

Where the dates come from

The authoritative source for Nepal's calendar is the Nepal Panchanga Nirnayak Samiti(पञ्चाङ्ग निर्णायक समिति) under the Ministry of Education — the committee that publishes the official patro every year, around February or March.

Festival dates here are seeded from that committee's publication and cross-checked against Hamro Patro and Nepali Patro before each year goes live. Tithis are computed with the Drik Panchang algorithm at Kathmandu sunrise (27.7172° N, 85.324° E).

How the calendar works

Bikram Sambat (विक्रम सम्बत्) is a solar calendar — months begin at the sun's entry into a zodiac sign (sankranti), so 1 Baisakh always falls on April 13 or 14, and 1 Magh always falls on January 14 or 15.

But Hindu festivals are tied to the lunar calendar's tithis, so they shift between Gregorian dates from year to year. Dashain might fall in late September one year and mid-October the next. Tihar always spans five consecutive days, but those days move.

This is why a Nepali calendar is more than a date-arithmetic exercise: it requires an annual editorial pass against the published patro.

Open questions, corrections

If a date looks wrong to you, it probably is — please let us know. The validator catches structural problems (Tihar must be 5 consecutive days, etc.) but human judgement is needed for the lunar festivals.