About

The website is for looking things up: today's date, the panchang, rashifal, holidays, sahit and date conversion. All of it works without an account, and there is no sign-up. Personal tools such as your own events, birthday reminders, kundali and saved settings are in the Nepali Calendar mobile app, which can also send you reminders.

On Katigate 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.
• See Nepal's festivals and public holidays for the whole year.
• Find sahit days for weddings, bratabandha, pasni and other ceremonies.
• Convert dates from Bikram Sambat to the Gregorian calendar and back.
• Look up today's official foreign-exchange rates and convert amounts.

The tools and reference pages are available in Nepali and English. Blog articles are available in the languages listed in the blog archive. Nepali is the default language of the site. Switching to English changes the menus and the text, and every feature still works. Nepali text is set in a Devanagari font made for easy reading.

Date conversion uses the actual length of each month in each Bikram Sambat year, not a fixed offset. The panchang is calculated from astronomical positions. Sahit and festival information follows the traditional panchang tables. For the exact time of a ceremony on a given day, confirm the lagna and muhurat with a priest.

Use the website in any browser, without an account. The mobile app for Android and iOS adds personal features: your own events, birthday reminders, kundali, push reminders and offline use. Look things up on the website, and keep your own dates in the app.

Katigate is an independent project built and run by Sijan Joshi, a developer from Nepal. He also builds the Nepali Calendar app for Android and iOS. No government or official body runs this site. The email address on the Contact page goes straight to him, including for corrections.

Send the page URL, the date or sentence that looks wrong, and the value you expected through Contact. For a calendar mismatch, include both the BS and AD dates. Blog posts show a publication date and, when different, an update date. Automatically generated rashifal is labelled on its page; it is general reading rather than personal advice.

Send questions, corrections or feature ideas through the Contact page, or send feedback from inside the app.