Dashain
Nepal's longest festival, fifteen days from Ghatasthapana to Kojagrat Purnima.
25 Ashwin 208311 Oct 2026in 19 days
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Holidays
When each festival falls this year and next, what happens on each of its days, and what closes.
Nepal's longest festival, fifteen days from Ghatasthapana to Kojagrat Purnima.
25 Ashwin 208311 Oct 2026in 19 days
Fagu Purnima — colour in the hills one day, in the Tarai the next.
31 Ashwin 208317 Oct 2026in 25 days
Five days of lights, one animal a day, ending with Bhai Tika.
21 Kartik 20837 Nov 2026in 46 days
Four days on the riverbank in Kartik, offering to the setting and rising sun.
29 Kartik 208315 Nov 2026in 54 days
Baisakh 1 — the Bikram Sambat year turns in mid-April.
17 Poush 20831 Jan 2027in 101 days
Haritalika Teej in Bhadra: red saris, a day of fasting, and Rishi Panchami two days later.