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Offshore software development from Nepal for teams in Saudi Arabia

Most of the working day is shared all year, so the planning goes into the week instead: Riyadh works Sunday to Thursday, and Ramadan brings a shorter statutory day.

Time difference between Nepal and Saudi Arabia

Kathmandu local time at the start and end of a working day in Saudi Arabia, your local time when a 10:00–18:00 Kathmandu day starts and ends, and the number of working hours the two share.
Your zone9:00 am for you5:00 pm for youKathmandu opens, your timeKathmandu closes, your timeShared hours
Riyadh / JeddahAST · same all year11:45 am7:45 pm7:15 am3:15 pm6 hours 15 minutes

Kathmandu times shown for a 10:00–18:00 working day in Nepal against 09:00–17:00 in Saudi Arabia. Riyadh / Jeddah is 2 hours 45 minutes behind Kathmandu on AST. That leaves 6 hours 15 minutes of the working day in common. Convert other hours in the Nepal time converter and overlap calculator.

Working with a team in Nepal from Saudi Arabia

Kathmandu is the side that starts first. By the time Riyadh opens, the team in Nepal is already into its morning, and it closes partway through your afternoon — which leaves the end of the Riyadh day as the only stretch with nobody on the other side. Questions raised before lunch get answered the same day.

The week needs more care than the day. Saudi Arabia's official weekend is Friday and Saturday, and Kathmandu works on Friday. Saturday is a rest day on both sides; Friday is the day Riyadh is off and Kathmandu is not, which makes it a natural slot for long, uninterrupted work that needs no answers from Riyadh until the new week.

Ramadan changes the day itself. The Labor Law caps working hours for Muslim employees through the month, so the Riyadh day gets shorter and the shared window narrows with it. Agreeing a new standing time at the start of the month is simpler than discovering the change in the second week.

The Saudi riyal has been pegged to the US dollar at 3.75 for more than three decades, so a price agreed in dollars holds its riyal value from one invoice to the next.

Worth knowing in Saudi Arabia

  • Sun–Thu

    The official week

    A 2013 Royal Order moved Saudi Arabia's weekly holiday to Friday and Saturday, making Sunday to Thursday the official working days.

    Source: Saudi Press Agency

  • PDPL

    A personal data law

    The Personal Data Protection Law has been in force since 14 September 2023. It is supervised by SDAIA, the national data authority, which also issues a separate regulation for personal data transferred outside the Kingdom.

    Sources: SDAIA, Implementing Regulation, Clyde & Co

  • 6 hours

    The Ramadan working day

    During Ramadan, Article 98 of the Labor Law limits actual working hours for Muslim workers to six a day, or 36 a week.

    Source: Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development

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Offshore development questions from Saudi Arabia

What is the time difference between Riyadh and Kathmandu?

Kathmandu is 2 hours 45 minutes ahead of Riyadh and Jeddah, and the gap never changes, because neither country observes daylight saving. A 10:00 start in Kathmandu is 7:15 am in Riyadh.

How much of the Riyadh working day is shared with Nepal?

6 hours 15 minutes of a 9:00 am to 5:00 pm day, all year. The Kathmandu day ends at 3:15 pm Riyadh time, so anything raised before mid-afternoon can get an answer the same day.

Which days do Saudi and Nepal teams both work?

Saudi Arabia's official week runs Sunday to Thursday. A team on Nepal's traditional Sunday-to-Friday week shares all five of those days; one that also takes Sunday off, as Nepal's government offices have since April 2026, shares Monday to Thursday. Confirm which week the team keeps.

What changes for an offshore team during Ramadan?

The Riyadh day gets shorter. During Ramadan the Labor Law limits actual working hours for Muslim workers to six a day, or 36 a week, which narrows the shared window with Kathmandu for the month. A standing time agreed before the month starts keeps the daily call from drifting.

Does Saudi Arabia's PDPL apply to data a team abroad can access?

It sets the rules for sending it there. The Personal Data Protection Law has been in force since 14 September 2023 under SDAIA's supervision, and a separate regulation governs personal data transferred outside the Kingdom, so check it before a team in Nepal gets production access.

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