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Kalimati vegetable price

The wholesale rates Kalimati recorded, for the day they were actually recorded — not for whatever day you opened this page. Add what you are buying and the basket totals itself.

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Quantities are in the commodity's own unit — a kilo for most things, a piece or a bundle for the rest.

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Is it getting dearer?

These are wholesale rates, not shop prices. They are what lots changed hands for at Kalimati between traders. A retailer adds transport, wastage, handling and a margin, so a neighbourhood shop charging noticeably more than the maximum here is normal rather than dishonest.

Read from kalimatimarket.gov.np/price. The date above is the day the board recorded these prices, checked against the board's own date filter rather than assumed.

Every other page says "today". This one checks

The Kalimati board does not publish every day. It closes for public holidays, and the day's figures only appear once the morning's trading has been recorded. Ask its site for prices without naming a date and it answers with the most recent day it has — which on a holiday is not today.

So this page asks for a specific day. If the board has nothing for it, the page steps back a day and asks again, and then tells you which day it ended up with and how old that is. Every other Nepali site republishing this feed prints "today's price" over whatever it got.

Minimum, maximum and average are three different questions

The board records the cheapest lot, the dearest lot and the average across the day for each commodity. The gap between the first two is not noise — it is quality, origin and the hour of the morning. A tomato from a tunnel farm and a tomato off a truck from India are both "tomato" in this table.

The basket therefore totals three ways at once: at the rate you chose, and at the extremes. The spread between them is roughly the room a careful buyer has.

Wholesale is not retail, and the difference is not a scandal

A rate here is for a lot, at the market, at dawn. By the time it reaches a shop it has been transported, broken into kilos, kept for a day or two with some of it spoiling, and sold by someone who needs to live on the difference. Comparing the two directly and concluding you are being cheated is the commonest misreading of this data.

Where it is genuinely useful is direction and magnitude: whether onions have doubled this month, whether the cauliflower glut has started, and what a sack should cost if you are buying one.

Buying in bulk?

If you are pricing a canteen or a hostel kitchen, total the basket at the maximum rather than the average — a large order rarely gets the cheapest lot of everything. The unit converter handles the dharni-and-pathi arithmetic that older suppliers still quote in.

कालीमाटीको आजको तरकारी मूल्य

यहाँ देखिने भाउ कालीमाटी फलफूल तथा तरकारी बजार विकास समितिले टिपेकोथोक मूल्य हो — पसलमा लाग्ने खुद्रा मूल्य होइन। ढुवानी, कुहिने नोक्सानी र पसलेको नाफा थपिएपछि खुद्रा मूल्य केही बढी हुनु स्वाभाविक हो।

समितिले बिदाको दिन मूल्य प्रकाशित गर्दैन। त्यसैले यो पृष्ठले कुन मितिको मूल्य हो भन्ने ठ्याक्कै जाँचेर देखाउँछ, र त्यो मूल्य कति दिन पुरानो हो सो पनि लेख्छ। तपाईं किन्न लागेको परिमाण राख्नुभयो भने न्यूनतम, औसत र अधिकतम — तीनवटै दरमा जम्मा कति पर्छ भन्ने तल देखिन्छ।

Common questions

Is this Kalimati vegetable price page free to use?
Yes. Every Kaamko tool is free, with no sign-up, no account and no usage limit. They are published by Imperial College of Engineering, a Tribhuvan University-affiliated engineering college in Tathali, Bhaktapur, and are not funded by advertising.
Does what I type get sent anywhere?
Your inputs stay in your browser. This page does fetch one thing over the network — the published rate it quotes — but it sends none of your figures with that request, and nothing you enter is stored or transmitted.
Where do the figures come from?
Each tool names its source on the page, along with the date that source was read. Where a rate or a slab is provisional — announced in a budget speech but not yet gazetted, for instance — the page says so rather than presenting it as settled.
Who maintains these tools?
Imperial College of Engineering, formerly Janakpur Engineering College, in Tathali, Bhaktapur, Nepal. Corrections are welcome by phone on 01-5091616 or through the contact page, and a figure reported as wrong is checked against its published source rather than adjusted on request.

Last checked by Imperial College of Engineering. Rates, slabs and formulas are re-checked against their published source on this date.