Florista en Katmandú, Nepal

To send flowers to Kathmandu from abroad, place your order online and a florist based in the Kathmandu Valley arranges your bouquet by hand, delivering it in 1-2 business days. You pay in USD — bouquets start around $55 plus a flat $14.95 service fee — and same-day delivery is often possible if you order before noon Nepal time.

Why do marigolds matter so much in Kathmandu?

Spend one morning near Ason bazaar or the ghats along the Bagmati and you will see it: strings of orange and yellow marigolds draped over doorways, shrines, taxis and shop counters. In Kathmandu, flowers are not an occasional luxury — they are woven into daily worship. That is worth knowing when you send a bouquet here, because a gift of fresh blooms lands in a culture that already treats them as auspicious. Our local florists work with what the valley knows and loves — marigolds, roses, seasonal blooms — arranged Western-style but with a feel for local taste. If your recipient lives near Boudhanath or in Lazimpat, the arrangement arrives the same way everything moves in this city: by a person who knows the gallis, not a courier van with a barcode.

When is the best moment to send flowers to Kathmandu?

Timing a delivery around the festival calendar makes it far more meaningful. Dashain, usually in October, brings families together across the valley and is the biggest homecoming of the year. A few weeks later, Tihar fills the city with marigold garlands and oil lamps — during Laxmi Puja demand for flowers spikes citywide, so order a day or two early. Spring is special too: March and April are when the lali gurans, Nepal's national rhododendron, blazes across the surrounding hills, and the whole valley feels flower-minded. Birthdays and anniversaries work year-round, of course, and many of our orders come from Nepalis abroad in Australia, the US and the Gulf sending love home.

How does delivery actually work in the Kathmandu Valley?

Kathmandu addresses can be famously loose — a neighborhood name, a landmark, a tole rather than a street number. Our florists are used to this. Include a working local phone number for your recipient and the delivery person will call to pin down the exact house, whether that is a flat in Thamel, a family home near Swayambhunath or an office in Durbar Marg. Your gift message is printed exactly as you write it, in English or Nepali romanization, and the bouquet is assembled fresh the day of delivery rather than shipped in a box across borders. Card, PayPal and Shop Pay all work at checkout, and you can also pay with Bitcoin — handy when international cards give you trouble.

Sending to family just across the river? We deliver to Lalitpur and its Patan neighborhoods too, as well as lakeside Pokhara beneath the Annapurnas. For any other town, browse our full flower delivery across Nepal — every order backed by a 4.8/5 rating from 377+ verified reviews.