Bikram Samvat calendar is the official one that is followed in Nepal. According to it, the year is 2072. In this year, the Government of Nepal has announced a number of days as public holidays. Starting from the first one i.e. Baishak 1—the New Year’s day holiday—there are more than 30 days of public holidays in Nepal. The 30+ days of holidays are for everyone in Nepal. Four of those days seems to fall on a Saturday. The rest of the holidays are on weekdays so expect public offices, organizations and institutions to be closed on those days.

In Nepal, there are also exclusive or special kinds of holidays. These holidays are different because they are applicable to only a certain region of the country or to a certain gender, race or religion. For example: Risi Panchami is a holiday that is given only to women and Indra Jatra holiday is only applicable inside Kathmandu Valley. There are a 8 such days. For the list of public holidays that we created this year, the two types of holidays—for everyone and not for everyone—have been separated into two lists. But the holiday for Fagu Purnima/Holi is kept on the first list. You can refer to our official Nepali calendar as well.

So, according to the two lists, the first one has exactly 32 off days and the second one has 8 off days. The absolute cumulative number of holidays is thus 40. 30 of them are for everyone, 2 days is for Holi in the hills and Holi in Terai and finally there are 8 other special kinds of exclusive holidays. We also observed 2 days holiday for public feedback collection on the constitution draft.

Here is the list of public holidays for the Bikram Samvat year 2072 (April 14, 2015 – April 12, 2016) in Nepal:

Here is the second list for exclusive or special holidays:

Since, Dashain and Tihar falls on the same month i.e. Kartik, it is the month with the most holidays. There are 9 total holidays on this month out of which one is on Saturday. Enjoy the holidays and let us know if we left something out.