Time in Kathmandu
Nepal · Asia/Kathmandu · latitude 27.72°
Reading your clock…
Kathmandu never changes its clocks
Kathmandu stays on UTC+05:45 all year round. This is worth being careful about rather than relaxed about: the gap between Kathmandu and a city that does observe daylight saving still moves twice a year, because the other end moved. A recurring call can drift by an hour without anything changing here at all.
Time difference from Kathmandu
Where a range is shown, the gap genuinely changes during the year. That is not rounding or hedging — it is two governments moving their clocks on different weekends.
| City | Difference now | Across the year |
|---|---|---|
| London | 4 hours 45 minutes behind | −5h45 / −4h45 |
| New York | 9 hours 45 minutes behind | −10h45 / −9h45 |
| Los Angeles | 12 hours 45 minutes behind | −13h45 / −12h45 |
| Chicago | 10 hours 45 minutes behind | −11h45 / −10h45 |
| Toronto | 9 hours 45 minutes behind | −10h45 / −9h45 |
| Paris | 3 hours 45 minutes behind | −4h45 / −3h45 |
| Berlin | 3 hours 45 minutes behind | −4h45 / −3h45 |
| Dubai | 1 hour 45 minutes behind | constant |
| Mumbai | 15 minutes behind | constant |
| Singapore | 2 hours 15 minutes ahead | constant |
| Hong Kong | 2 hours 15 minutes ahead | constant |
| Tokyo | 3 hours 15 minutes ahead | constant |
| Sydney | 4 hours 15 minutes ahead | +4h15 / +5h15 |
| Auckland | 6 hours 15 minutes ahead | +6h15 / +7h15 |
| São Paulo | 8 hours 45 minutes behind | constant |
| UTC | 5 hours 45 minutes behind | constant |
Daylight in Kathmandu through the year
From about 10.4 hours in December to 13.9 hours in June. This is the part a plain clock leaves out: 17:00 is a bright evening in one month and long dark in another.
| Month | Sunrise | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 06:51 | 17:31 | 10h 40m |
| February | 06:34 | 17:55 | 11h 21m |
| March | 06:05 | 18:12 | 12h 7m |
| April | 05:31 | 18:28 | 12h 57m |
| May | 05:09 | 18:45 | 13h 36m |
| June | 05:05 | 18:59 | 13h 54m |
| July | 05:17 | 18:57 | 13h 40m |
| August | 05:34 | 18:34 | 13h 0m |
| September | 05:48 | 17:59 | 12h 11m |
| October | 06:03 | 17:26 | 11h 23m |
| November | 06:26 | 17:07 | 10h 41m |
| December | 06:47 | 17:10 | 10h 23m |
Daylight length is accurate. The clock times of sunrise and sunset assume each city sits at the centre of its time zone, which can put them up to about an hour and a quarter out for places near a zone's edge — Madrid being the standard example. Day length is unaffected.
Questions
About time in Kathmandu
What time zone is Kathmandu in?
Kathmandu uses the IANA time zone Asia/Kathmandu, a fixed UTC+05:45 with no daylight saving.
Does Kathmandu observe daylight saving time?
No. Kathmandu stays on UTC+05:45 all year. That does not mean the gap between Kathmandu and other cities is fixed, though: when a city that does observe daylight saving changes its clocks, the difference between you and them moves even though nothing changed here.
Why does the time difference to Kathmandu keep changing?
Because the two places do not change their clocks on the same weekend, and in opposite hemispheres they change in opposite directions. London is a clear example: it sits 5 hours 45 minutes behind, then 4 hours 45 minutes behind across the year rather than one fixed distance.
How much daylight does Kathmandu get?
Around 13.9 hours at the longest, in June, and about 10.4 hours at the shortest, in December. The table on this page lists sunrise and sunset through the year. Times are calculated from Kathmandu's latitude of 27.72° and are approximate to within about an hour for cities that sit well away from the centre of their time zone.