A year of Nepali festivals and observances on the Bikram Sambat calendar. The Nepali calendar is solar — twelve months each opening with the Sun's entry into a sidereal sign, Baishakh first — and the response reports the Bikram Sambat year or year-pair spanning the Gregorian year you asked for.
The event list covers every Sankranti under its Nepali name (Maghe, Falgun, Baishakh and so on), all the Ekadashis, both Pradosh Vrats of each month named for their weekday, the eclipses, and national festivals such as Nawa Barsha and Bisket Jatra.
Pass year with latitude, longitude and UTC offset — and note that Nepal Standard Time is UTC+05:45, so timezone_as_float should be 5.75 for Kathmandu; 5.5 will shift the day boundaries. The response is {year, bikram_sambat, events} with each event {name, date}. The year must be between 2006 and 2046.
The month-start rule follows the practice of dating a Sankranti on the transit day when the transit occurs before that day's sunset and on the following day otherwise. Nepal's official month starts are set by committee rather than derived from a single astronomical test, so a small number of transits each decade will not match the published Patro.
Request fields
Field
Type
Required
Notes
latitude
number (double)
required
Latitude of the place, in decimal degrees. Positive is north, negative is south. Example: 26.9124 for Jaipur, 40.7128 for New York. Minutes and seconds are not accepted - convert first.
longitude
number (double)
required
Longitude of the place, in decimal degrees. Positive is east, negative is west. Example: 75.7873 for Jaipur, -74.0060 for New York. Note the sign: a missing minus puts New York in China.
timezone_as_float
number (double)
required
UTC offset of the place, in hours, as a decimal. Example: 5.5 for India (UTC+05:30), -5 for New York in winter, 5.75 for Nepal. This is NOT validated against date_time - if the two disagree you get a successful response for the wrong moment, so derive both from the same source. Use the offset in force on that date, not today's: a summer birth in a country with daylight saving needs the summer offset.
year
integer
required
Year of birth as a number, e.g. 1990. Four digits.