Industry & Tourism
Nepal runs on a calendar roughly 57 years ahead of the one you use, and a time zone so specific it exists in only three places on Earth. Neither is a…
By Laxman Rawal · Jul 21, 2026
Land in Kathmandu and set your phone to local time, and two things will look wrong. First, the clock will be a strange number of minutes off whatever you expected — Nepal is on UTC+5:45, a 45-minute offset that exists in only three time zones on the entire…
Travel Himalaya Nepal · News
What this means for you In practice: double-check flight and permit office times against Nepal Standard Time specifically, not India's — a 15-minute gap has caught out plenty of travellers connecting through Delhi. And if a guesthouse owner or permit officer…
Travel Himalaya Nepal · News
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