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About Kathmandu
Home to roughly 1,442,271 residents, Kathmandu is a substantial regional city in Nepal. The city sits at 1400 m above sea level, an elevated setting that moderates its summers.
For computers and clocks, Kathmandu is anchored to the Asia/Kathmandu time zone, which encodes the city's daylight saving rules going back to the early 20th century. Lying in the northern hemisphere within the subtropical belt, the city experiences a daylight pattern and seasonal arc characteristic of its latitude (27.72°).
This page exposes Kathmandu's exact local time alongside sunrise, sunset, public holidays, and a structured-data feed at the JSON link below — useful for spreadsheets, scheduling tools, and AI assistants alike.
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Questions about time in Kathmandu
The current local time in Kathmandu, Nepal is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Kathmandu uses the IANA time zone Asia/Kathmandu, currently UTC+5:45.
Whether Kathmandu observes daylight saving time and the date of the next clock change are shown in the Timezone block above. The IANA database (Asia/Kathmandu) is the source of truth.
Kathmandu is currently 9 hours 45 minutes ahead of New York.
Kathmandu is currently 4 hours 45 minutes ahead of London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Kathmandu are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (27.7172, 85.3240).
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Kathmandu sits at 27.7172° N, 85.3240° E, 1400 m above sea level, in Nepal.