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Offshore software development from Nepal for UK teams

One of the more forgiving long-haul markets: a Kathmandu afternoon lands squarely on a London morning.

Time difference between Nepal and the United Kingdom

Kathmandu local time at the start and end of a working day in the United Kingdom, 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
LondonGMT2:45 pm10:45 pm4:15 am12:15 pm3 hours 15 minutes
LondonBST1:45 pm9:45 pm5:15 am1:15 pm4 hours 15 minutes

Kathmandu times shown for a 10:00–18:00 working day in Nepal against 09:00–17:00 in the United Kingdom. London is 5 hours 45 minutes behind Kathmandu on GMT. That leaves 3 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 the United Kingdom

Your morning arrives while Kathmandu is mid-afternoon and still fully at work. That is a genuinely workable shape — enough shared hours for a daily standup, live review, and pairing on the parts that are hard to explain in writing, without either side keeping unsociable hours to get it.

It also means the day has a natural rhythm rather than a handoff. You raise something in your morning and get an answer inside the same working day, not the next one. Most of the coordination overhead that makes offshore work feel slow comes from waiting a full cycle for a reply, and this overlap removes that.

The practical constraint is the second half of your afternoon: once Kathmandu closes, anything unresolved waits until tomorrow. Front-loading the questions that need a person, and leaving the afternoon for work that does not, is most of what makes this arrangement run smoothly.

The overlap is an hour longer in summer than in winter. Nepal holds its clocks still, so when the UK moves to BST the gap narrows — and it widens again in October.

Worth knowing in the United Kingdom

  • UK GDPR

    A transfer needs a safeguard

    Nepal is not covered by UK adequacy regulations, so personal data sent there needs a safeguard such as the International Data Transfer Agreement or the Addendum to the EU clauses, and the ICO expects a transfer risk assessment alongside it.

    Sources: ICO, international transfers, ICO, adequacy regulations

  • CDPA s 90

    Assignment in writing

    Under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, an assignment of copyright has no effect unless it is in writing and signed by or for the assignor. Section 91 lets a signed agreement assign copyright in code that has not been written yet.

    Sources: CDPA s 90, s 91

  • England · Scotland · NI

    Bank holidays by nation

    Bank holidays differ across the UK. Scotland and Northern Ireland each keep days that England and Wales do not, such as St Andrew's Day and St Patrick's Day, so offices in different nations are not always closed on the same dates.

    Source: GOV.UK

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Offshore development questions from the United Kingdom

What is the time difference between the UK and Nepal?

Kathmandu is 5 hours 45 minutes ahead of London on Greenwich Mean Time and 4 hours 45 minutes ahead during British Summer Time. Nepal does not change its clocks, so the gap narrows by an hour when the UK moves to BST in spring and opens again in autumn.

How many working hours do London and Kathmandu share?

Against a 10:00–18:00 day in Kathmandu, a 9:00 am to 5:00 pm London day shares 3 hours 15 minutes on GMT and 4 hours 15 minutes on BST. On GMT the Kathmandu day runs from 4:15 am to 12:15 pm London time, so the shared hours are your whole morning.

Can a UK company send personal data to developers in Nepal?

Yes, with a safeguard. Nepal is not covered by UK adequacy regulations, so a restricted transfer there needs one, usually the IDTA or the Addendum, plus a transfer risk assessment. Work on synthetic test data involves no personal data and needs none of this; production access is where the paperwork matters.

Does a UK company own the code an offshore team writes?

Only if the contract assigns it. The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act requires a written assignment signed by or on behalf of the assignor, and it allows copyright to be assigned before the work exists, so a clause signed at the start can cover code written months later.

Which UK bank holidays matter for an offshore schedule?

The ones where your offices are. England and Wales share one list, and Scotland and Northern Ireland each add days of their own, such as St Andrew's Day and St Patrick's Day. Nepal's public holidays follow a different calendar entirely, so neither side's days off can be assumed from the other's.

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