Vikram Samvat ↔ AD (English Year) Converter

What your result means

The large number is the Vikram Samvat year for the Gregorian year and month you entered. When the month is January or February, or May to December, the answer is certain. When it is March or April, the tool shows the likely value with the alternative, because the Samvat year changes on Chaitra Shukla Pratipada, a lunar date that falls somewhere in those two months.

The small cards show both values for the year as a whole (before and after the new year) and the Shaka Samvat (India’s national calendar) for reference. In the reverse direction, the tool shows the two Gregorian years that a Samvat year spans.

How to use this converter

1. Choose AD → Vikram Samvat or Vikram Samvat → AD.
2. Enter the year. For AD → VS, also pick the month if you know it; it removes the ambiguity for most of the year.
3. Read the result. For March–April dates, or when you need the exact tithi, check a panchang for that year’s Chaitra Shukla Pratipada.

How the conversion works, with a worked example

From Chaitra Shukla Pratipada to 31 December:    VS = AD + 57
From 1 January to the day before it:              VS = AD + 56
Reverse:  a Samvat year starts in AD = VS − 57 and ends in AD = VS − 56

Worked example (computed by this tool’s own function):

• November 2026 → Vikram Samvat 2083 (certain)
• January 2026 → Vikram Samvat 2082 (certain)
• March 2026 → 2082 or 2083, depending on whether the date is before or after Chaitra Shukla Pratipada that year
• Vikram Samvat 2083 → runs from 2026 (Chaitra) to 2027 (Phalguna)

Reference table

| 1947 | 2003 | 2004 | 1869 | | 1950 | 2006 | 2007 | 1872 | | 2000 | 2056 | 2057 | 1922 | | 2024 | 2080 | 2081 | 1946 | | 2025 | 2081 | 2082 | 1947 | | 2026 | 2082 | 2083 | 1948 | | 2027 | 2083 | 2084 | 1949 | | 2030 | 2086 | 2087 | 1952 |

Special cases and common mistakes

• Adding 57 to a January date. A birth on 10 January 2000 is in Vikram Samvat 2056, not 2057, because the Hindu new year had not yet begun.
• March and April. Chaitra Shukla Pratipada has fallen anywhere from mid-March to mid-April in recent decades. For those dates only a panchang can tell you which Samvat year applies.
• Regional variants. Gujarat’s Vikram Samvat begins on Kartik Shukla Pratipada (the day after Diwali), so its year number changes in October–November. Nepal’s Bikram Sambat begins in Baisakh (mid-April) and uses a solar reckoning. This tool follows the North Indian Chaitra-starting convention.
• Era origin. The Vikram era is counted from 57 BC; the constant offsets above already account for the missing year zero.
• Samvat month names. The Samvat year runs Chaitra, Vaishakha, Jyeshtha, Ashadha, Shravana, Bhadrapada, Ashwina, Kartika, Margashirsha, Pausha, Magha, Phalguna; months do not line up with Gregorian months, which is another reason day-level conversion needs a panchang.
• Certificates and forms. Government forms in India use the Gregorian (and sometimes Shaka) date; use this tool for festivals, horoscopes and traditional records, not for official date fields.