How many grams are in one tola?
The converter uses 11.6638038 grams for one company tola. Nepal’s Standard Weights and Measures Act schedule publishes one company tola as 0.0116638 kilogram, or 11.6638 grams at the schedule’s precision. One tola is divided into 16 gold aana, 64 paisa, 256 daam or 96 lal in the tool’s traditional breakdown.
How to use the tool
Choose a weight unit
Select tola, gold aana, paisa, daam, lal, gram, kilogram, carat, ounce or pound.
Enter the mass
Use the weight shown by the seller or measuring instrument, not a price.
Separate weight from value
Use the result only as mass; apply purity, price and charges separately with current verified information.
At a glance
- 1 company tola
- Approximately 11.6638 g
- Traditional division
- 16 gold aana = 64 paisa = 256 daam
- Lal breakdown
- 96 lal per tola in this tool
- Live gold price included
- No
Weight is not gold value
A mass converter answers how much material a traditional unit represents. The price of jewellery also depends on metal purity, the market rate at a particular time, stones, wastage policy, taxes and making charges. None of those should be inferred from a tola-to-gram result.
Likewise, 24K, 22K and 18K describe fineness, not different meanings of the mass unit. Apply any purity calculation only after confirming the assay and the seller’s pricing basis.
- Use a calibrated, legally compliant scale for trade.
- Record whether a document means company tola or another historical tola definition.
- Do not use a static guide as a live gold-price source.
- Keep weight, purity and currency calculations visibly separate.
Precision and display rounding
The underlying converter keeps more decimal places than most retail displays. The Nepal Act schedule states company tola in kilograms to the published precision. A screen may round the result for readability, so use the copied full value when a calculation needs more precision.
Legal metrology requirements govern instruments and commercial transactions. This browser arithmetic does not calibrate or certify a scale.
Important limitations
- The tool converts mass only; it does not obtain a live gold price.
- Purity, assay, stones, making charges, tax and seller policy are outside the calculation.
- Historical or regional meanings of “tola” should be checked against the source document.
- Commercial weighing should use an approved and calibrated instrument.
Questions people ask
Is one gold aana the same as one land aana?
No. They share a traditional name but represent different quantities: gold aana is a subdivision of mass, while land aana is a subdivision of area.
Does 22K change the number of grams in a tola?
No. Tola is mass. Karat changes the stated purity of the material, not the mass represented by one tola.
Can the tool calculate today’s jewellery price?
No. It deliberately excludes live price, purity adjustment, stones, tax and making charges.
Primary and project sources
- Standard Weights and Measures Act, 2025 — Nepal Law CommissionOfficial law establishing metric standards and scheduled conversion relationships.
- Official Act PDF — Nepal Bureau of Standards and MetrologyOfficial PDF schedule listing company tola as 0.0116638 kilogram.
- SI base units — BIPMInternational reference for SI measurement units.