Public Holidays in Nepal for 2071 B.S.
A new year has dawned upon us and this time it is 2071 Bikram Samvat (B.S.). As we all know that Nepal has only one day break or holiday in a week. One might complain that this one day holiday is not enough. But since we have a large number of festivals and other event holidays, Saturday being the only day off sounds quite fair.
The Government of Nepal has marked many events as official holidays. There are even unique events celebrated by different ethnic races and genders. Such days are also marked as special holidays for those people. It is true that not every private office in our country follows public holidays announced by the Government. But Government offices close on those public holidays.
This is a new post for this year dedicated towards listing all the official public holidays in Nepal. The holidays apply only for 2071 B.S. because of the fact that festivals don’t always fall on the same calendar date. This list does not include Saturdays without any holidays.
Here is the list of holidays of Nepal for 2071 Bikram Samvat (B.S):
Some Events Without a Holiday:
Some Intersting Fact About This Year’s Holidays
- There are 31 total holidays that are applicable nationwide throughout all ethnic groups and genders.
- Four of those nationwide holidays i.e. Ekadashi (Dashain), Bhaitika, Yo: Mari Punhi and Ram Nawami falls on Saturday.
- There are 7 holidays that are celebrated in certain regions, by a certain gender or ethnic group. For example: Gaijatra is only celebrated in Kathmandu and hence Kathmandu observes a regional holiday on that day.
- The total holiday count including gender/ethnicity/region exclusive ones are 38 days.
- The day with the most holiday this year is Thursday. There are 12 Thursdays which are holidays.
- Asar is the only month this time without any public vacation.
- Dashain falls on Aswin which makes it the month with most holidays. Aswin has 6 weekday festival events and 4 Saturdays which make it a month with 10 holidays.
- Mahanawami and Vijaya Dashami falls on the same day this year.
- There are 52 Saturdays this year.
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