✦ zenith calendar · the nepal almanac
the bikram sambat year's holidays in one quiet layer of your sky, each one explained in its own words.
nepal is one of the holiday almanacs that come with zenith calendar. it holds the public and festival holidays of nepal as the government sets them, one bikram sambat year at a time, mid-april to mid-april. some days are holidays only for one community, one place or one group of workers, and each day's note says which.
its dates are copied from the published gazette, not worked out on your phone. tap a day and read three short paragraphs: what it is, where it comes from, and how it is kept.
bikram sambat · as the gazette prints it, one year at a time
the heart of the festival, from phulpati, the 7th day, to the 12th
the greatest festival of the nepali year, for the goddess durga and her victory over evil.
on vijaya dashami, elders put tika and jamara on the foreheads of the young with blessings, and families travel far to receive it. homes share feasts, and children fly kites and swing on the ping.
from laxmi puja to the day after bhai tika
the festival of lights, and of the bond between brothers and sisters, honouring yama and then lakshmi, goddess of wealth and fortune.
homes are cleaned and lit with lamps to welcome lakshmi, and on bhai tika sisters give their brothers a tika and a garland of makhamali flowers for long life. groups go from house to house singing deusi and bhailo.
the 1st of magh
the day the sun enters makara and begins its northward journey, the bright half of the year. for the tharu people it is maghi, their new year and greatest festival.
families bathe at sacred rivers and eat warming foods, chaku, sesame sweets, ghee, sweet potato and yam. the tharu keep maghi over several days with the maghauta dance through the nights.
the great night of shiva
the 14th night of the waning moon in phalgun
a night of fasting, prayer and staying awake, when devotees turn to shiva to cross from darkness into light.
devotees fast and keep a vigil, bathing the linga in water and milk and offering bilva leaves. pashupatinath in kathmandu draws vast crowds, and fires are lit through the cold night.
zenith calendar draws the year as an orbit round the sun. lit, nepal puts its days on their dates on that ring, in rose. its mark is its flag, 🇳🇵.
each holiday carries three short paragraphs in its notes: what it is, where it comes from as its own tradition or the country itself tells it, and how it is kept.
on a new install, your phone's own country starts switched on. if your phone's language setting names nepal as its region, nepal starts lit; anywhere else it waits in the archive, whole.
nepal arrives locked, so nothing in it changes by accident. the lock guards your hand, not your eye: you can still read it, shine it or eclipse it from its chip. one tap unlocks it, and then it is yours to rename, recolour or add to.
nepal shares one sky with your own commitments. like every almanac that comes with the app, it never counts toward the almanacs you can make for free, and it lives on your phone: zenith calendar has no server of its own.
✦ zenith calendar · the sky around it
nepal is a single layer. beneath it is a whole calendar drawn as the sky, your year an orbit round the sun, and every part of it answers your touch.
the sun stands at the centre and the year rings round it, with today's earth riding at today's place, its small moon beside it. tap the ring anywhere else and a faint ghost earth waits on that day.
drag along the ring and the days pass under your finger, the big date and the day's list following as you go. lift, and the day you stopped on stays picked.
tap the small moon beside today's earth and you dive into the week. the moon above shows its phase, named underneath; swipe the dates and each week brings its own.
tap the sun and the ring tips on its edge into a ladder of years. in the week, pull the moon firmly down and the month opens, the moon resting half off its foot.
zenith calendar has no server of its own. tap the gear and switch on "nothing comes in" or "nothing leaves this phone"; lift them, and every almanac is back exactly as it was.
nepal is waiting in the app, and the rest of the sky comes with it.
nepal (public and festival holidays) ·
In the nepal almanac the heart of Dashain runs from 17 to 23 October 2026, from phulpati to the twelfth day. Ghatasthapana, its first day, falls on 11 October 2026.
Tihar runs from 8 to 12 November 2026, from laxmi puja to the day after bhai tika. In Zenith Calendar it sits on the ring of your year in the nepal almanac.
Mahashivaratri falls on 6 March 2027, the fourteenth night of the waning moon in Phalgun.
Zenith Calendar for Android comes with an almanac called nepal: the public and festival holidays as the government sets them, drawn on the ring of your year beside your own days. Turning it on costs nothing.
Nepal holds Nepal's own public and festival holidays, as the government dates them. Hindu holds the Hindu festivals reckoned for New Delhi, which can fall a day either side elsewhere. They are separate almanacs, so you light the one you keep.
No. Some days are holidays only for one community, one place or one group of workers, and each day's note in Zenith Calendar says which.
On a new install, the first page asks which almanacs start lit. If your phone's language setting names Nepal as its region, the nepal almanac starts switched on; otherwise it waits in the archive until you light it.
They are copied from the government's published gazette, one Bikram Sambat year at a time, not worked out on your phone.