Where can I buy the best silver in Kathmandu?

DPPL trades from the 5th floor of Sasa Complex on New Road, Kathmandu — Nepal's precious-metal market. We deal only in 999 fine silver: bars of 100 g, 500 g and 1 kg, and loose silver grain sold by weight. Every piece is weighed on calibrated scales in front of you and leaves with a full invoice, and we buy back documented metal at the published purchase rate.

What is today's silver price in Nepal?

The current silver rate for Kathmandu — sale and purchase, per tola and per 10 grams — is published on dppl.com.np and updated each morning from the official Kathmandu bullion market reference. One tola is 11.6638 grams.

Is DPPL a silver importer or a retail dealer?

Both. DPPL supplies investment-grade 999 fine silver bars and industrial silver grain to households, jewellers and businesses in Kathmandu, in quantities from 100 grams upward. Call 01-5915052 for larger commercial orders.

What does 999 fine silver mean?

999 fine means 99.9% pure silver, the standard for investment bullion and higher than sterling silver at 92.5%. Every DPPL bar is stamped with its fineness, weight and the DPPL diamond mark.

How much do making charges add to a silver bar?

The published rate is the price of the metal by weight. Bars also carry a making charge for refining, casting, stamping and packaging, added at the counter and itemised on the invoice. Making charges are lower per gram on larger bars.

Does DPPL buy silver back?

Yes. DPPL buys back bullion it has sold at the purchase rate published on the day of the buy-back. Bring the metal and the original invoice; the bar is weighed and checked, and payment is made at the counter.

What are DPPL's opening hours and location?

DPPL is open Sunday to Friday, 10:30 to 18:00 NPT, closed Saturdays and public holidays, at 5th Floor, Sasa Complex, New Road, Kathmandu 44600. Call 01-5915052 or WhatsApp +977 980-561-7932.

Why Nepali households are turning to silver

Investing15 July 20267 min readDiamond Palace Pvt. Ltd.

Ask most Nepali families about precious metals and the conversation starts with gold. But at counters on New Road, a growing share of ordinary buyers — not traders, not jewellers, households — are buying silver. The reasons are worth setting out honestly, including the ones that argue against it.

The entry price changes who can participate

The most straightforward reason is arithmetic. A tola of gold costs many multiples of a tola of silver. For a household that can set aside a modest sum each month, gold means saving for a long time before buying anything at all, while silver means buying something real this month.

This matters more than it sounds. A saving habit that produces a visible result every month is a saving habit people keep. One that requires a year of patience before the first purchase is one many people abandon.

Divisibility

Silver is the portion of family wealth you can break into. If a household needs a moderate sum — a medical cost, school fees, a business shortfall — selling a few tolas of silver covers it. Meeting the same need from gold means selling a piece worth far more than required, or borrowing against it.

This is the same logic that put silver in dowries alongside gold for generations. Gold is the reserve; silver is the working reserve.

The industrial floor

Here is where silver genuinely differs from gold as an asset. Most gold ever mined still exists, sitting in vaults and jewellery. Silver is consumed. It goes into electrical contacts, brazing alloys, medical dressings, batteries, and — in growing quantity — photovoltaic cells. Silver is the best electrical conductor of any element, which is why the solar industry cannot simply design it out.

When a solar panel is installed, its silver leaves the market permanently. That gives silver a demand base that does not depend on investor sentiment at all. Whatever people think about precious metals in a given year, factories still need the metal.

Now the honest part: the risks

Silver is more volatile than gold. Because the market is smaller and industrial demand rises and falls with the economic cycle, silver falls harder in downturns and rises faster in booms. A household that will need its money back at a specific date in the near future should not be holding silver.

There is also the spread and the making charge. Buying and selling immediately loses you both. Silver rewards patience over a period of years and punishes short-term speculation. Storage is a real consideration too — the same value in silver takes up far more physical space than in gold, and it needs to be kept somewhere secure and dry.

None of this is an argument against owning silver. It is an argument for owning it with the right expectations.

A sensible way to accumulate

The pattern we see from experienced customers is unglamorous and effective. They decide on a fixed amount — a set sum each month, or the Dashain bonus each year — and they convert it at the day's rate regardless of what the headlines say. They do not try to guess the bottom.

Buying at regular intervals means sometimes buying high and sometimes buying low, which averages out to a reasonable price over time and, more importantly, removes the decision that most often stops people from acting at all. They buy documented bars from a dealer who publishes a buy-back rate, they keep the invoices together, and they leave it alone.

Silver rewards patience and punishes panic. Buy documented metal, store it properly, keep the paperwork, and let the years do the work.

DPPL supplies 999 fine bars in 100 g, 500 g and 1 kg, and loose grain by weight — and buys back documented metal at the purchase rate published here each day.

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