Current time in Kathmandu, Nepal
The current local time in Kathmandu is shown below. Kathmandu observes NPT.
What's the daylight saving status?
Kathmandu does not observe daylight saving time. The local offset is fixed year-round.
When are sunrise & sunset today?
What are the timezone facts?
- Timezone
- Asia/Kathmandu
- Standard abbreviation
- NPT
- Observes daylight saving
- No
- Country
- 🇳🇵 Nepal
- Business hours
- 09:00 – 17:00 local
What's the timezone history of Kathmandu?
Nepal keeps one of the world's only quarter-hour offsets, UTC+5:45, set in 1986 to the meridian passing near the peak of Gaurishankar in the Himalaya. The 15-minute step places the country deliberately ahead of India's UTC+5:30, a distinction widely read as an assertion of national identity, and 15 minutes behind Bangladesh and Bhutan to the east. The single national clock covers the whole country, and Nepal has never observed daylight saving at any point.
What are the working hours in Kathmandu?
Nepal runs an unusual working week, with Saturday the single weekly day of rest and Sunday a normal working day, so the country falls out of step with both Western and Gulf weekends. Government offices keep roughly 10:00 to 17:00, shortening in winter. Dashain, the fifteen-day festival in September or October, is the year's great shutdown, when offices empty and much of the city travels to home villages, followed a fortnight later by Tihar. The summer monsoon reshapes travel and the working day, and Tihar a fortnight after Dashain adds another extended pause to the calendar.
Where is Kathmandu?
Kathmandu lies in a bowl-shaped valley at around 1,400 metres in the central hills of Nepal, ringed by the foothills of the Himalaya with the high peaks rising beyond to the north. The valley holds the capital and its neighbours Lalitpur and Bhaktapur, together around 3 million people, the largest urban concentration in the country. It sits at the historic crossing of trade routes between the Gangetic plain of India and the Tibetan plateau.