Baisakh (April - May)

- Mata Tirtha Snan or Mother’s Day

On this day, each house bustles with activities and everyone, regardless of age, participates. There are not much religious ceremonies but the fact that it is a day for mothers, calls for celebrat ...

- Budha Jayanti

Lord Buddha’s birthday is celebrated at all Buddhist shrines, particularly Boudhnath and Swayambhunath

 - Bisket Jatra

Bhaktapur is the place to be for this exciting & rousing festival which lasts for a week and celebrates the slaying of two demon serpents. A frenetic tug of war at dusk determines who shall ...

 Jestha (May - June)

- Sithinakha or Kumar Khasthi

Jaisedewal, south of kathmandu Durbar square, will be thronged with people celebrating the birthday of kumar.Kumara has six heads because he was nursed by the karttikas- six women who, as stars, ...

 Ashad ()

- Ropain

Ropain (the 15th day of the third month of Nepali year) is also known as Asar Pandhra. This festival is related to the planting of rice paddy fields, and is celebrated all around Nepal by eating ...

- Gokarna Aunshi or Father’s Day

Celebrated by ritual bathing at the Gokarna Mahadev for those whose fathers have died in the past year. Living fathers are honored with gifts.

- Tulsi Bijaropan

This women and festival of fasting and purification involves planting the sacred tulsi plant, a close relatives of common basil.

 Shrawan ()

- Gai Jatra

An epic love of a king & queen is celebrated in this festival, which is more like a carnival. Families in which deaths have occurred in the previous year will send cows or children dressed as ...

- Raksha Bandhan or Janai Purnima

Every Brahman and Chhettri must renew their janai or sacred threads on this day after first taking a ritual bath in holy water. The kumbheswor Temple in Patan is the place to be, as the water i ...

- Ghantakarna

The Night of the Devil is traditionally the last day for rice planting, The evil demon was outwitted by a frog and children collect coins to pay for his funeral.

- Bhoto Jatra

Astrologers fix the exact time. The culmination of the several month long procession of the Rato(red) Machhendranath chariot since it set off from Pulchowk in April, this important Patan

festival ...

 Bhadra ()

- IndraJatra

Probably the most spectacular of all valley festival. Torch-lit processions & dancing to honor Indra, the gods of rain, are held in this eight-day celebration which centers on the Kathmandu, ...

- Teej

This colorful women festival has groups of red sari-clad ladies singing in high spirits in the streets on their way to ritually bathe in the Bagmati river at Pashupatinath.

 .Ashwin ()

- Dashain or Durga Puja

This 10-days festival is celebrated all over Nepal, honoring bountiful fertility and the conquest of evil. Normal life comes to a standstill as everyone attends to his religious and family du ...

 Kartik ()

- Haribodhani Ekadashi

This most auspicious Ekadashi ( the 11th day of each lunar fortnight, there are 24 in a year) welcomes Vishnu back from his long summer sleep. Join worshippers at Budhanilkantha where festivities ...

- Tihar/ Dipawoli and Laxmi puja

The festival of lights is one of the great festival of all Hindu people. In this festival we worship the Goddess of wealth,Laxmi. The festival of lights starts with honoring the crow, the do ...

  Mangshir ()

- Yomari Punhi

The Newari rice festival is celebrated at panauti, where the family paddy store is blessed & rice cakes called yomari are prepared. Chath parba:- It is the worshipping days of surya (The Sun) ...

  Poush ()

- Mahendra Jayanti or Constitution Day

Garlands are laid on the statue of king Mahendra in Durbar Marg, (Kings Way).

  Magh ()

- Basant Panchami

The festival is celebrated at the commencement of spring. The festival is marked worshipping Saraswati, goddess of knowledge . Students about to take exams and hundred of devotees flock to the saraswa ...

- Magh Shankranti

Marked with ritual bath even though it often falls on the cold day of the year. This festival marks the inauspicious winter month of Poush and rejoices for the approaching spring. 

  Falgun (February - March)

- HOLI or Fagu Purnima

This festival is celebrated all over country with lots of fun and joy with colors and water exchanging greeting and good wishes. Kathmandu Durbar square is where this festival of colour and fertility ...

- Democracy Day or King Tribhuwan Jayanti

The statue of king Tribhuvan is regarded in a procession to Tripureswar.Losar or Tibetan New Year: One of the most beautiful festivals usually coincides within few days of Chinese New Year. The third

.- Shiva Ratri

Shiva Ratri is the night of Lord Shiva when He himself was created by His own Divine Grace and Hindus all over the world celebrate this day with a lot of zeal and enthusiasm. Shiva Ratri literally mea ...

 Chaitra (March - April )

- Chaitra Dashain

an evil King of Lanka (Sri Lanka). It is believed that the Goddess Durga and power had helped Ram to achieve his victory. So, the Goddess Durga, the source of power, is also worshipped on the occas ...

- GhodheJatra

Celebrated by horse races and gymnastics attended by the prsident, this horse festival has become a military pageant to draw crowds to the Tundhikhel.

 - Seto Rath

For four days during early evening, the guardian deity of the seto (white) Machhendra pulled in a towering chariot through the streets of kathmandu. The vehicle which stands on wheels 1.8m (6ft) in