Nepali months in English: the 12 names, their dates and days in 2083

Each Nepali month begins between the 12th and the 18th of an English month and ends in the next one. The first day of each month moves by no more than a day from year to year: in every year from 2070 to 2083, it fell on one of the two dates shown below.

2083 BS runs from 14 April 2026 to 13 April 2027, 365 days.

There is no one official English spelling. Each month has an everyday Nepali name and a formal Sanskrit one, and both are written in English several ways, so Baisakh, Baishakh and Vaishakh are the same month. Any of them is understood. In a CV, a letter or a form, pick one spelling and keep to it.

A Nepali month has 29, 30, 31 or 32 days, and the same month can gain or lose a day from one year to the next. In 2083 BS, Ashar has 32 days; Baisakh, Jestha, Shrawan, Bhadra and Ashoj have 31; Kartik, Poush, Falgun and Chaitra have 30; Mangsir and Magh have 29.

2082 had exactly the same lengths. The two years before it did not:

Nepal’s BS months are solar. Each one begins on a sankranti (संक्रान्ति), the day the sun moves from one sign of the zodiac (राशि) into the next. Baisakh begins with Mesh Sankranti, when the sun enters Aries, and Magh with Maghe Sankranti, when it enters Capricorn. The last day of a month is its masanta (मसान्त).

The sun does not cross the twelve signs at an even pace, because the Earth moves fastest in early January, when it is nearest the sun, and slowest in early July. So the sun spends longest in the signs of the Nepali summer, which is why Jestha, Ashar and Shrawan reach 31 or 32 days, and least in those of winter, when Mangsir, Poush or Magh can be 29.

The crossing can happen at any hour, but a month is counted in whole days. As the time of the crossing shifts from year to year, a month can gain or lose a day.

The official calendar is settled by the Nepal Panchanga Nirnayak Bikas Samiti (नेपाल पञ्चाङ्ग निर्णायक विकास समिति), a government committee under the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, whose current formation order dates from 2077 BS. It approves the almanacs (पञ्चाङ्ग) and wall calendars published each year and decides the dates of festivals and tithis. Calendars printed without its approval can face action.

Public holidays are a separate list, which the Ministry of Home Affairs publishes in the Nepal Rajpatra. The list for 2083 was published on 18 Falgun 2082 (2 March 2026), and the Nepali calendar marks each holiday on it.

Month lengths for years not yet published are projections, and converters can disagree about them by a day. Our converter marks every date from 2084 BS onward as provisional.

The Nepali new year (नयाँ वर्ष) is 1 Baisakh, the day of Mesh Sankranti. It falls on 13 or 14 April. 2083 BS began on Tuesday 14 April 2026, and 2084 BS begins on Wednesday 14 April 2027.

Because the year starts in April, one BS year covers parts of two AD years. 1 January 2027 is 17 Poush 2083.

The Nepali week runs from Sunday to Saturday, the same as the English one. Every name ends in बार (bar), which means “day”, and calendars often shorten the names to the first part: आइत, सोम, मङ्गल and so on.

Nepal’s fiscal year (आर्थिक वर्ष) runs from 1 Shrawan to the last day of Asar the following year. That is how the Financial Procedures and Fiscal Responsibility Act, 2076 defines it, and it is why a fiscal year is written with two years, such as 2083/84. In AD it starts in mid-July.

The school year follows the BS year. Under the Education Regulations, 2059, the academic session begins on 1 Baisakh and ends with Chaitra. For 2083 the government started it on 15 Baisakh (28 April 2026), and some municipalities set their own dates.

Nepal writes the year first, then the month, then the day. The same day, 29 October 2026, can be written:

• 2083/07/12 or 2083-07-12, with Kartik written as month 07.
• २०८३/०७/१२ or २०८३।०७।१२ in Nepali numerals. Official papers also use the danda (।): the Act above was certified on २०७६।०६।२४.
• 2083 Kartik 12 or 12 Kartik 2083 in words, and in Nepali २०८३ कार्तिक १२ गते, where गते marks the day of the month.
• B.S. or वि.सं. after the date, so that nobody takes it for AD: 2083/07/12 B.S.
• मसान्त (masanta) for the last day of a month, whatever its number. Notices use it because the number changes: the end of Asar was Asar 31 in 2081 and Asar 32 in 2083.