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Nepali calendar date today
Nepal runs on its own calendar, Bikram Sambat. Its year count is about 56 years and 8 months ahead of the Gregorian one, and each month follows the sun through the zodiac, so months last 29 to 32 days.
25 Kartik 2083 BS
वि.सं. २०८३ कात्तिक २५, बुधबार
Wednesday
- In the Gregorian calendar
- Wednesday 11 November 2026
- This day began
- At midnight, as Wednesday 11 November 2026 begins
- This day ends
- At midnight, as Thursday 12 November 2026 begins
- Year 2083 BS began
- Tuesday 14 April 2026
- Next new year
- Wednesday 14 April 2027 (in 154 days)
- This year has
- 365 days in 12 months
- Years count from
- 57 BC, by tradition
- Used in
- Nepal, as the official calendar for government and daily life
- Year start
- 1 Baisakh, in mid-April (14 April in 2026)
- Month length
- 29 to 32 days, fixed each year by Nepal's calendar committee
- Year offset
- BS = AD + 57 from mid-April to December, AD + 56 from January to mid-April
Next holidays in this calendar
154 days
Nepali New Year 1 Baisakh 2084 BS
14 April 2027 · Nepali (Bikram Sambat)
How the Nepali calendar works
Bikram Sambat (BS) is a solar calendar. Each month is the time the sun spends in one sign of the zodiac. The sun moves faster through some signs than others, so months range from 29 to 32 days, and the same month can change length from one year to the next.
Because the lengths shift, nobody uses a fixed rule. A government-appointed committee, the Nepal Panchanga Nirnayak Samiti, settles the official calendar each year and approves the almanacs that are printed. This site uses a table of those month lengths. The table below shows the year 2083 BS, which began on 14 April 2026; the last column gives the shortest and longest each month has been from 2000 to 2083 BS.
| No. | Month | Nepali | Starts in 2083 BS | Days in 2083 BS | Usual range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Baisakh | बैशाख | 14 Apr 2026 | 31 | 30-31 |
| 2 | Jestha | जेठ | 15 May 2026 | 31 | 31-32 |
| 3 | Asar | असार | 15 Jun 2026 | 32 | 31-32 |
| 4 | Shrawan | साउन | 17 Jul 2026 | 31 | 31-32 |
| 5 | Bhadra | भदौ | 17 Aug 2026 | 31 | 31-32 |
| 6 | Asoj | असोज | 17 Sep 2026 | 31 | 30-31 |
| 7 | Kartik | कात्तिक | 18 Oct 2026 | 30 | 29-30 |
| 8 | Mangsir | मंसिर | 17 Nov 2026 | 29 | 29-30 |
| 9 | Poush | पुस | 16 Dec 2026 | 30 | 29-30 |
| 10 | Magh | माघ | 15 Jan 2027 | 29 | 29-30 |
| 11 | Falgun | फागुन | 13 Feb 2027 | 30 | 29-30 |
| 12 | Chaitra | चैत | 15 Mar 2027 | 30 | 30-31 |
Days run from midnight to midnight, as in the Gregorian calendar, and Nepal writes dates in the order year, month, day. Saturday is the weekly day off.
Variants and the method used here
This site converts dates with a published table of official month lengths, counted from 1 Baisakh 2000 BS = 14 April 1943, and covers 2000 to 2090 BS. We checked 2081, 2082 and 2083 against Nepal's official holiday lists. Years after 2083 are projections until the committee publishes them, and published tables for those years disagree by a day in places.
The same era name, Vikram Samvat, is also used in India, but there it usually means a lunisolar calendar with moon-based months, so Indian and Nepali dates do not line up. Nepal also keeps other calendars, such as Nepal Sambat, for cultural use.
A short history
Tradition credits King Vikramaditya of Ujjain with founding the era in 57 BCE, but no source links the era to Vikramaditya before the 9th century CE. Earlier inscriptions call the era Krita or the era of the Malava tribe; the earliest known inscription naming it "Vikrama" dates from 842 CE.
Nepal's Rana rulers made Vikram Samvat the official calendar in the early 1900s, under Prime Minister Chandra Shumsher, replacing the Shaka era for official use. Today a committee appointed by the government sets the official calendar each year.
Sources
How this site calculates the date: Nepal's official solar calendar: month lengths of 29 to 32 days as set each year by Nepal's calendar committee (published table, BS 2000-2090; from 2084 BS projected).