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INTRODUCTION: Still birth is a common adverse outcome of pregnancy, associated with many risk factors like prematurity, infection, birth injury, eclamptic disorders. METHODS: A hospital based, retrospective study was conducted at Patan Hospital in the year 2064. The number of still births and their associated risk factors were assessed. RESULTS: There were three thousand and five hundred and eighty eight deliveries. Among all deliveries, still birth cases were counted forty seven with a rate of 14 per thousand deliveries. The major risk factors were prematurity, low birth weight, fetal distress and maternal jaundice. CONCLUSIONS: Prematurity was the commonest risk factor for still birth.