What time is it in Nepal?

Nepal stays on UTC+5:45 all year. Its offset from UTC never moves, so its relationship to places that do change shifts twice a year instead — which is usually why someone checks. Right now it is 5 hours 45 minutes ahead of UTC, and 10 hours 45 minutes ahead of New York.

Kathmandu is 10 hours 45 minutes ahead of New York and 13 hours 45 minutes ahead of Los Angeles. 9am in New York is 7:45 pm in Kathmandu.

To convert a specific time rather than read the current one, the converter shows both directions with the next clock change for each.

The day is 10 hours 50 minutes long in Kathmandu, and losing 1 minute a day. The sun peaks at 11:47 am, 13 minutes before noon on the clock. A UTC offset is a promise that the sun is overhead at midday on one meridian, and Kathmandu sits 4 minutes of solar time west of UTC+5:45’s. The rest is the equation of time, which swings about a quarter of an hour either way across the year.

The solar year swings 3 hours 31 minutes in Kathmandu: 13 hours 54 minutes of daylight at the June solstice against 10 hours 23 minutes at the December one. Being north of the equator, its longest day falls in June — the opposite way round from the other hemisphere.

Nepal has kept UTC+5:45 since Wednesday, January 1, 1986, when it moved from UTC+5:30. Before that its clocks read 15 minutes behind what they read now.