Nepal is a country which has one holiday per week. Officially, Saturday is given as a day off and the remaining six days of the week are work days. This same trend is not followed by INGOs. While most parts of the world follow 2 days per week holiday (Saturday-Sunday) Nepal has only 1. But the 1 day less weekly holiday is compensated by a large number of festival holidays that come all year round.

See Public Holidays of Nepal for 2071 B.S.
See Public Holidays of Nepal for 2014 (English Year) Instead

For the year 2070 (2013 – 2014), there are 28 days public holidays nationwide excluding Saturdays. The public holidays for festivals do not fall on the same date every year because of the fact that they are celebrated according to Lunar Days / Tithis. Also note that some festivals are region specific. That means holidays are given on a certain festival within a certain city.

This is a post dedicated to listing all the public holidays of Nepal for the year 2070 B.S. (2013 – 2014 in Julian Calendar). You can also see those public holidays in our Nepali Calendar. The holidays are given a reddish color in the calendar of this site in order to identify them. Saturdays without any events are not included in this list.

The list of holidays of Nepal for 2070 Bikram Samvat (2013 – 2014):

Other Events Without a Holiday

This Year’s Interesting Facts and Stats:

• Nepal Celebrates Three Democracy days (or Republic day). All these three days are holidays. They are named as: Loktantra Diwas (Baishak 11 / Apr 24, 2013), Ganatantra Diwas (Jestha 15 / May 29, 2013), Prajatantra Diwas (Falgun 7 / Feb 19, 2014).
• This year 35 holidays fall on Weekdays.
• Similarly 7 holidays fall on Saturdays.
• Out of total holidays, 7 days of holidays are not for everyone. Most are regional, while some are for certain gender or religion.
• This year there are 52 total Saturdays.
• Total number of event holidays including those that fall on Saturday are 42.
• Ram Nawami comes twice in this year. Once on Baishak 6 / Apr 19, 2013 and again on Chaitra 25 / Apr 8, 2014. The first one falls on a Friday while the next one falls on a Tuesday. Both days are holidays.
• Chaite Dashain also comes twice this year. Once on Baishak 5 / Apr 18, 2013 and again on Chaitra 24 / Apr 7, 2014. The first one falls on a Wednesday and the other one falls on a Monday. Chaite Dashain is not a holiday.
• The day with the maximum number of holidays is Wednesday. 10 Wednesdays are Holidays.
• Asar and Shrawan are the 2 Months without any holidays if you exclude Saturdays.
• Most of the Dashain Holidays Fall on Aswin. Hence it is the month with the highest number of holidays. 8 Days on Aswin are event holidays (including a Saturday).