GMT+5:45 Time Zone Countries list - UTC+5:45 Time Now

The world's quarter-hour zone

Almost every time zone on earth is a whole hour or a half hour from UTC. Nepal is one of the rare exceptions, and the only country whose entire standard time sits on a forty-five-minute mark. The reference is Mount Gauri Shankar, east of Kathmandu; the country set its clocks fifteen minutes ahead of Indian Standard Time in 1986 and has kept that position since.

Nepal is bordered on three sides by India, on UTC+5:30, and to the north by China, which runs the whole country on UTC+8. Crossing the southern border costs you fifteen minutes; crossing the northern one costs you two hours and fifteen.

Where UTC+5:45 applies

Nepal — Nepal Time (NPT), used nationwide. Kathmandu — the capital and the city most often quoted for this offset. Pokhara, Lalitpur, Biratnagar, Bharatpur — all on the same national clock. There is no second zone inside Nepal, despite considerable east-west spread and terrain that ranges from lowland plains to the highest mountains on the planet. One country, one offset, one number that surprises people.

Daylight saving

Nepal has never adopted daylight saving time. The offset is UTC+5:45 in January and UTC+5:45 in July. Any change in the gap between you and Kathmandu comes from your own clocks moving, not theirs. That makes Nepal a stable reference point in a region full of them: Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and China all hold their offsets year-round, so the whole neighbourhood keeps a fixed shape while Europe and North America shuffle twice a year.

Fifteen minutes is enough to be late. Nepal is the reason "roughly six hours ahead" is not a plan.

Doing the arithmetic

The quarter hour is easy to mishandle, so a few practical notes: Convert to UTC first, then add 5:45. Trying to add to a neighbouring country's time is how the fifteen minutes disappears. From India, add fifteen minutes. From Bangladesh, subtract fifteen. From China, subtract two hours fifteen.

Expect odd-looking meeting times. A 09:00 call in London in winter is 14:45 in Kathmandu — a legitimate time, not a typo in the invite. Check that your calendar tool actually supports the offset. Most modern systems handle Asia/Kathmandu correctly, but hand-rolled converters that assume whole or half hours will quietly round it off.

Other quarter-hour offsets

Nepal is not entirely alone in using a forty-five-minute mark. The Chatham Islands, part of New Zealand, run on UTC+12:45 in standard time. And UTC+8:45 is used in a small part of Western Australia around Eucla, unofficially. What makes Nepal distinctive is scale: it is the only sovereign state whose national standard time is a quarter-hour offset.