Nepal Trekking Permit Fees for Autumn 2026, Verified — What Actually Changed (Almost Nothing)

If you have seen this year's headlines about Everest, you would be forgiven for assuming every Nepal permit is getting more expensive. A tourism bill working through parliament could raise the bar for who gets an Everest climbing permit at all, and the summit permit fee itself jumped to US$15,000 earlier this year, its first rise since 2015. But that is the cost of climbing Everest, a few hundred people a year. It has nothing to do with what the other hundred thousand-plus trekkers pay to walk to Everest Base Camp, Annapurna, Manaslu or Langtang. We checked those fees directly against Nepal's official sources ahead of autumn 2026, and almost none of them have moved.

We pulled these numbers directly from the Nepal Tourism Board's own park entry fee schedule and TIMS page, current as of this week. Every conservation area and national park a mainstream trekker actually walks through, Annapurna, Sagarmatha, Langtang, Manaslu, sits at the same NPR 3,000 foreign entry fee. Kanchenjunga Conservation Area is the one modest outlier at NPR 2,000, and has been for some time, not a new autumn 2026 change.

The one genuine cost that does move with the calendar is Manaslu's Restricted Area Permit, priced by season rather than fixed year-round: US$100 for the first seven days plus US$15 a day after that during the September-to-November peak window, dropping in the quieter months. That is not a 2026 change either, just the standing seasonal rate every Manaslu trekker has budgeted for the past few years.

What has changed, and what has not yet, both sit outside the trekking-permit system entirely. Upper Mustang's special permit was cut from $500 to $50 a day back in June, a genuine and recent reduction. Meanwhile the 263-amendment tourism bill making headlines this month is still sitting in a parliamentary committee, and even if passed in its toughest form, its climbing-experience and guide-nationality requirements are written for 8,000m expeditions, not for anyone walking to a base camp. If you are trekking, not climbing, this year's fee sheet for autumn 2026 is the same one you would have budgeted for in 2025.

All of that makes autumn 2026 a rare, quiet season on the paperwork front: no new permit costs to plan around for Everest Base Camp, Annapurna Base Camp or the Manaslu Circuit, just the trek itself.

Source: Nepal Tourism Board, official park entry fee schedule, verified July 2026.

Cover photo: Billjones94 via Wikimedia Commons (CC0).