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Dashain 2027 runs 30 September to 14 October, tika on Saturday the 9th. Bhai Tika is 31 October. Why the early date matters for an autumn trek.
By Maya Rai · Sep 3, 2026
Dashain 2027 tika falls on Saturday 9 October. The festival opens with Ghatasthapana on Thursday 30 September and runs to Kojagrat Purnima on Thursday 14 October. Tihar follows three weeks later, with Bhai Tika on Sunday 31 October 2027 . If you are planning…
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Nepal Sambat — the Newar calendar — begins its new year on 30 October 2027, alongside Mha Puja. It is a separate reckoning from the Bikram Sambat year that governs everything else on this page.
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Dashain is fixed to the lunar calendar, not the Gregorian one, so it drifts against your diary by a week or two each year in a cycle that eventually corrects. Tika is always Vijaya Dashami, the tenth day of the bright fortnight of Ashwin. In 2026 that lands…
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Autumn is the clearest trekking window of the year in Nepal, and it broadly runs from the monsoon's withdrawal in early October through to late November. In 2027 Dashain sits directly on the front of it. Concretely: roughly 30 September to 14 October 2027 is…
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For 2026 the tika day is Wednesday 21 October, with Bhai Tika on 11 November. The full breakdown — every one of the fifteen days, the Bikram Sambat dates, the tika time window and what actually closes — is in our Dashain and Tihar 2026 guide , and what shuts…
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