Dashain and Tihar 2026 in Norway: Dates and the Community Organisations Behind the Celebrations
The Norwegian mission's official calendar lists Dashain on October 19–21 and Tihar on November 9–11 — here is how Norway's Nepali community observes the festiva
By Nepalese Events Australia Editorial
Published: 2026-09-30T08:30:00.000000Z
Category: Festivals
Norway's Nepali community heads into festival season with its dates confirmed. The official holiday calendar published for the mission lists Dashain on October 19–21, 2026 and Tihar on November 9–11, 2026 — the reference points around which the community's own celebrations will be scheduled.
Reading the dates correctly
A clarification worth making: those are the official holiday dates published by the Norwegian mission in Nepal — they mark the Nepal-side festival period, not Norwegian community-event dates. Community celebrations in Norway are set by the associations themselves and typically land on the nearest weekends. As in every diaspora country, the practical festival stretches to fit the working week: expect the main community gatherings on the weekends of October 17–18 and November 7–8.
For anyone comparing Nepal-side timing, the Nepali festival calendar s the tithi-d dates, and readers coordinating across the North Sea with British relatives can check our UK Dashain dates — note the UK's tika day (October 21) matches the mission calendar. Norway is one hour ahead of London, so a tika call coordinated for British evening is Norwegian night — worth factoring into family scheduling.
One more practical note for Norwegian families: Norway's long autumn evenings mean Tihar's lakshmi-puja lighting actually reads well here — homes lit up on the dark November evenings look closer to Kathmandu than anywhere else in the diaspora calendar. It's the one festival where being further north is an advantage.
Who organises celebrations in Norway
The community's organisational map is worth knowing before the events themselves are announced — the same dozen organisations that jointly ran September's Oslo flood memorial are the bodies that typically carry the festival calendar:
• NRNA-NCC Norway — the national umbrella body
• Norge-Nepalforeningen — the Norway-Nepal friendship association, the community's longest-standing public face
• NEPOS, NESCO, JSS Norge, ONF, NPPF, RAGOS — professional and regional associations
• Nepalske Samfunn i Drammen — the Drammen community body
• Tamang Samaj, Magar Samaj, HHN-Norway — ethnic-community associations
Festival announcements typically appear first on these organisations' own pages and Facebook groups — Oslo and Drammen are the two most active hubs, with Bergen and Stavanger hosting smaller gatherings. Community Dashain events in Norway follow the familiar pattern: tika ceremonies for children, cultural performances, communal meals and the membership drives that fund the year-round work.
For new arrivals, the practical route in is NRNA-NCC Norway's member associations — the umbrella body maintains the network and its social channels are usually where confirmed dates appear first. Tihar in Norway tends to be smaller than Dashain — Lakshmi Puja evenings and Bhai Tika ceremonies are often held at family or neighbourhood scale rather than as ticketed events — but the November 9–11 mission dates whatever larger programming emerges.
We'll carry the confirmed Norwegian Dashain and Tihar event listings on the Norway desk as the associations announce them — check back as October approaches, or follow NRNA-NCC Norway and Norge-Nepalforeningen directly for first-hand announcements.
In the meantime the practical dates to hold: the weekends bracketing October 19–21 for Dashain community events, and November 7–8 for Tihar programming. Families planning their own private tika ceremonies usually follow the mission dates themselves rather than the community-event weekends — both rhythms coexist in the diaspora calendar.
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