UTC to NPT
Nepal Time is 5 hours 45 minutes ahead of Coordinated Universal Time, all year round.
UTC to NPT conversion table
Every hour of the day, Coordinated Universal Time to Nepal Time. The gap never changes, so this table holds on every date.
| UTC | NPT |
|---|---|
| 12:00 AM | 5:45 AM |
| 1:00 AM | 6:45 AM |
| 2:00 AM | 7:45 AM |
| 3:00 AM | 8:45 AM |
| 4:00 AM | 9:45 AM |
| 5:00 AM | 10:45 AM |
| 6:00 AM | 11:45 AM |
| 7:00 AM | 12:45 PM |
| 8:00 AM | 1:45 PM |
| 9:00 AM | 2:45 PM |
| 10:00 AM | 3:45 PM |
| 11:00 AM | 4:45 PM |
| UTC | NPT |
|---|---|
| 12:00 PM | 5:45 PM |
| 1:00 PM | 6:45 PM |
| 2:00 PM | 7:45 PM |
| 3:00 PM | 8:45 PM |
| 4:00 PM | 9:45 PM |
| 5:00 PM | 10:45 PM |
| 6:00 PM | 11:45 PM |
| 7:00 PM | 12:45 AM +1 day |
| 8:00 PM | 1:45 AM +1 day |
| 9:00 PM | 2:45 AM +1 day |
| 10:00 PM | 3:45 AM +1 day |
| 11:00 PM | 4:45 AM +1 day |
Shared working hours
Taking a working day as 09:00–17:00 in each zone, Coordinated Universal Time and Nepal Time overlap for 2 hours 15 minutes.
9:00 AM–11:15 AM in UTC is 2:45 PM–5:00 PM in NPT.
When the difference changes
It doesn't. Nepal Time is 5 hours 45 minutes ahead of Coordinated Universal Time on every date of the year. Coordinated Universal Time runs at UTC+00:00; Nepal Time runs at UTC+05:45.
About Coordinated Universal Time
UTC never shifts. It is the reference every other zone is defined against, which is why logs, flight schedules and protocol timestamps use it. GMT is the same clock for every civil purpose, so a query for one is answered by the other.
Cities on this clock: Reykjavik, Accra, Abidjan, Dakar.
Watch out: GMT is also used loosely to mean "UK time", and those are not the same thing for seven months of the year — the United Kingdom moves to BST (UTC+1) while UTC stays put.
About Nepal Time
Nepal sits at UTC+5:45 — one of only a handful of quarter-hour offsets anywhere, and 15 minutes ahead of India. It was set to the meridian of Gaurishankar, and it means conversions from Nepal land on the quarter hour, which most conversion tables round away.
Cities on this clock: Kathmandu.
How the difference is worked out
Neither Coordinated Universal Time nor Nepal Time moves its clock relative to the other, so nepal time is 5 hours 45 minutes ahead of coordinated universal time is a rule rather than a fact about one particular year. The hour-by-hour table above holds on every date.
With both zones on their own standard time — daylight saving not in force anywhere — Nepal Time is 5 hours 45 minutes ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. That figure never changes; everything else on this page follows from it plus whichever clocks have moved.
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Is NPT ahead of or behind UTC?
Nepal Time is 5 hours 45 minutes ahead of Coordinated Universal Time, all year round. Coordinated Universal Time runs at UTC+00:00; Nepal Time runs at UTC+05:45. Because neither zone changes its clock, the gap never moves.
What time is 9 AM UTC in NPT?
9:00 AM UTC is 2:45 PM NPT.
When can Coordinated Universal Time and Nepal Time meet?
Taking a working day as 09:00–17:00 in each zone, the two overlap for 2 hours 15 minutes: 9:00 AM–11:15 AM in Coordinated Universal Time, which is 2:45 PM–5:00 PM in Nepal Time.
What does UTC stand for?
UTC is Coordinated Universal Time, also written GMT, Greenwich Mean Time, Zulu time. GMT is also used loosely to mean "UK time", and those are not the same thing for seven months of the year — the United Kingdom moves to BST (UTC+1) while UTC stays put.