About
About
Free Bikram Sambat calendar for web and mobile
Katigate is a free Bikram Sambat calendar (Nepali patro) and daily-reference service for Nepal. It brings the things people check every day — the Nepali date, panchang, rashifal, festivals and holidays, auspicious sahit days and a BS↔AD date converter — together in one fast, clean place. The website is fully open: no account, no sign-up, nothing to install. Personal tools live in the mobile app.
What we set out to do
We wanted a Nepali calendar that loads fast, reads cleanly in both Nepali and English, and does not bury the date you came for under clutter. Everything on this website is reference material that should be open to everyone, so the calendar, panchang, rashifal, holidays, sahit and converter work with no account at all — there is nothing to sign up for here. Personal tools — your own events, birthday reminders, kundali and saved preferences — live in the Nepali Calendar mobile app, where they can also remind you on time.
What the service includes
In one place you can:
- See today's Bikram Sambat date with the matching AD date, weekday and tithi.
- Read the full daily panchang — tithi, nakshatra, yoga, karana and more — for any date.
- Check the daily rashifal for all twelve rashi, in Nepali or English.
- Browse Nepal's festivals and public holidays for the whole year.
- Find auspicious sahit days for weddings, bratabandha, pasni and other ceremonies.
- Convert dates between Bikram Sambat and the Gregorian calendar, both ways.
- Look up today's foreign-exchange rates from Nepal Rastra Bank and convert amounts.
Nepali and English, side by side
Every part of the service is available in both Nepali and English. Nepali is the default and the canonical language of the site; switching to English changes the interface and the readings without losing any feature. The Nepali text uses proper Devanagari typography so it stays comfortable to read.
How we keep it accurate
Date conversions use the real per-year month lengths of the Bikram Sambat calendar rather than a fixed offset, and the panchang is computed astronomically. Sahit and festival information draws on established Nepali panchang authorities. For ceremony timing within a day, we always recommend confirming the exact lagna and muhurat with a priest or the Panchang Samiti.
On the web and on your phone
The website is for quick, no-account reference from any browser. The mobile app for Android and iOS adds everything personal: your own events, birthday reminders, kundali, push reminders and offline access. The two are complementary — read here, keep your own dates in the app.
Getting in touch
Questions, corrections, feature ideas or a publisher-removal request are all welcome. You can reach us through the Contact page or by sending feedback from within the app. We read everything that comes in.