Nepali Calendar
The Nepali Calendar is a traditional lunar calendar used in Nepal for cultural and religious purposes. It is also known as the Bikram Sambat calendar and is based on the Hindu calendar system. It is the official calendar of Nepal.
The Nepali Calendar is a traditional lunar calendar used in Nepal for cultural and religious purposes. It is also known as the Bikram Sambat calendar and is based on the Hindu calendar system. It is the official calendar of Nepal.
Sunday |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
Saturday |
अन्तराष्ट्रिय विद्यार्थी दिवस
1
Chaturthi
17 |
2
Panchami
18 |
|||||
छठ पर्व
विश्व शौचालय दिवस
3
Sasthi
19 |
विश्व बाल अधिकार दिवस
4
Astami
20 |
विश्व टेलिभिजन दिवस
5
Nawami
21 |
6
Dashami
22 |
7
Ekadashi
23 |
8
Dwadashi
24 |
महिला हिंसा अन्त्य दिवस
9
Trayodashi
25 |
10
Chaturdashi
26 |
गुरु नानक जयन्ती
11
Purnima
27 |
12
Pratipada
28 |
राष्ट्रिय क्षयरोग दिवस
13
Dwitiya
29 |
14
Tritiya
30 |
विश्व एड्स दिवस
15
Chaturthi
1 |
अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय दासता उन्मूलन दिवस
16
Panchami
2 |
विश्व अपाङ्ग दिवस
17
Sasthi
3 |
18
Saptami
4 |
अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय स्वयंसेवक दिवस | विश्व माटो दिवस
19
Astami
5 |
20
Nawami
6 |
गुह्येश्वरी यात्रा
अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय नागरिक उड्डयन दिवस
21
Dashami
7 |
22
Ekadashi
8 |
विश्व भ्रष्टाचारविरुद्धको दिवस
23
Ekadashi
9 |
विश्व मानवाधिकार दिवस
24
Dwadashi
10 |
विश्व पर्वत दिवस
25
Trayodashi
11 |
26
Aaunsi
12 |
27
Pratipada
13 |
28
Dwitiya
14 |
29
Tritiya
15 |
30
Chaturthi
16 |
Nepali Calendar is the multicultural calendar with Events and Festivals of all the cultural ethnic groups of Nepali around the World. It consists of 12 months, each with a varying number of days and changes from year to year vary from 29 days to 32 days. One of the unique features of the Nepali calendar is that it is 56 years and 8½ months ahead of the Gregorian calendar. Nepali Calendar follows detail Nepali panchang to list important festivals like Dashain, Tihar, Teej, Chhath, Lhosar, Eid etc and brings you Daily Panchang of Nepal, Government and Bank holidays, Nepali festivals, puja, Marriage Dates, Bratabandtha and so on. Also cultural celebrations of different diversities in Nepal's ethnic, tribal, and social groups at your fingertip useful for the Nepalese community in Nepal and Abroad.
Nepali Calendar is the Bikram Sambat system which uses lunar months and solar sidereal year. The Nepalese new year falls on 1st Baishakh (mid of April). The months have a minimum of 28 (usually Mangshir/Poush) days and a maximum of 32 (usually Asar/Shrawan) days. Besides Nepal and India, Bikram Sambat Nepali Calendar is also used in other countries like Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia.
King Chandragupt Vikramaditya, who was the then Hindu king of Ujjain (currently in Rajasthan, India), started a new calendar, and gave it his own name, (B)Vikram. ‘Sambat’, which means era in English, is used for any Calendar system in Sanskrit. So, the name of the calendar was developed as Vikram Sambat. With the development of relationship between Vikramaditya and Lichchhavi kings of Nepal via marriage, the calendar system was brought to Nepal. Since then, it was used in Nepal by the further generation of Kings for various purposes, until it was replaced by Sakha sambat in the Rana regime. But the Ranas again restored the Vikram Sambat Calendar in 1958, and since then it is used and known as official Nepali Calendar.
It is also believed that since in around 58 BC (when the Vikram Sambat Calendar was started), there was no any existence of King Chandragupta Vikramaditya in India. So, the calendar may have been started and solely developed by the Lichchhavi kings of Nepal. That means, it was Mandev, the then king of Nepal who started the Nepali Calendar.
We have also created a brand new Nepali Calendar exclusively for iOS user called Smart Patro with much simplicity using latest development technology to make it much faster and user friendly, which includes the features like Calendar, Date Converter, Rashifal, Forex / Exchange Rate, Gold & Silver, Nepali News, Nepali FM Radio, Panchang and many more. You can download Smart Patro from App Store.