What timezone is Kathmandu in?

Kathmandu uses the IANA timezone Asia/Kathmandu. The UTC offset is always UTC+5:45 - this timezone does not observe daylight saving time.

Does Kathmandu observe daylight saving time?

No. Kathmandu does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset remains UTC+5:45 all year round.

What is the current UTC offset for Kathmandu?

Kathmandu is currently at UTC+5:45.

What is the time difference between Kathmandu and New York?

Kathmandu is currently 9 hours 45 minutes ahead of New York.

What is the time difference between Kathmandu and London?

Kathmandu is currently 4 hours 45 minutes ahead of London.

Kathmandu, Nepal · UTC+5:45

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Nepal keeps one of the strangest clocks on earth: UTC+5:45. Not plus five and a half. Not plus six. Forty-five minutes past five. No other country uses this offset, and it has existed since 1986 when Nepal standardized its time zone to align with 82.5 degrees East longitude, the meridian running through the center of the country.

why 45 minutes: Nepal’s deliberate distinction

The 45-minute offset isn’t arbitrary. It’s mathematically consistent: 82.5 degrees divided by 15 (the number of degrees per hour) equals exactly 5.5 hours, then rounded up to the nearest 15-minute block to differentiate Nepal from India (UTC+5:30) just to the south and west. The extra 15 minutes is Nepal asserting a small but definitive distinction.

No daylight saving is observed. The Himalayan seasons change dramatically, but the clocks do not move.

Kathmandu at 1,400 meters in the Bagmati river valley gets roughly 10 to 13 hours of daylight depending on season, mild compared to the dramatic swings at Everest base camp (5,364 meters), where climbers must plan summit attempts around windows of light and the brutal arithmetic of altitude.

The city’s bazaars wake up by 7am. Durbar Square fills with vendors before 8. But the rhythms here are also shaped by the Hindu and Buddhist calendars, both of which run on lunar cycles. Festivals like Dashain and Tihar don’t fall on fixed Gregorian dates, and their arrival reorganizes the city’s temporal logic regardless of what the wall clock says.

9am in Kathmandu is 3:15am in London, a conversion that catches many travelers off-guard with the quarter-hour component.

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Questions about time in Kathmandu

What timezone is Kathmandu in?: Kathmandu uses the IANA timezone Asia/Kathmandu. The UTC offset is always UTC+5:45 - this timezone does not observe daylight saving time.
Does Kathmandu observe daylight saving time?: No. Kathmandu does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset remains UTC+5:45 all year round.
What is the current UTC offset for Kathmandu?: Kathmandu is currently at UTC+5:45.
What is the time difference between Kathmandu and New York?: Kathmandu is currently 9 hours 45 minutes ahead of New York.
What is the time difference between Kathmandu and London?: Kathmandu is currently 4 hours 45 minutes ahead of London.
What is the time difference between Kathmandu and Los Angeles?: Kathmandu is currently 12 hours 45 minutes ahead of Los Angeles.
What is the time difference between Kathmandu and Tokyo?: Kathmandu is currently 3 hours 15 minutes behind Tokyo.
What is the IANA timezone name for Kathmandu?: The IANA timezone database identifier for Kathmandu is Asia/Kathmandu. Use this string in programming languages and APIs: JavaScript (`new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-US', { timeZone: 'Asia/Kathmandu' })`), Python (`pytz.timezone('Asia/Kathmandu')`), or any IANA-compatible library.

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