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Asia
Nepal
Visa-free⛰️ Mountains🛕 Spiritual🌿 Nature
Boarding pass · Raahi
From
DEL
To
NP
Enter with just your passport — no visa needed (for tourism, up to the stated number of days).
Passenger
Nepal
Flight
~1.5h · 670km
Best window
Feb · Mar · Nov
₹1,000 buys
1,600 NPR
Destination
NP
Nepal
Should you choose Nepal?
A passport-first decision desk — tune the month and trip length
Raahi fit score
85Strong fit
Balances entry ease, Jul climate, value profile, flight effort and India-friendly payments.
Entry100
Weather58
Value92
Flight100
Set your travel window
Trip lengthPleasant · 27°C · 536mm rain
Best for
- low entry friction
- a short break from India
- value-focused trips
Think twice if
- you need a specific niche experience not covered by the current brief
Price this trip with real dates
Flight and hotel costs depend on your exact dates, route, room and traveller count. Raahi deliberately does not turn a distance or a generic daily band into a price.
Estimate with live prices →The live estimator combines current flight and hotel offers for your dates before you book.
Entry-friction timeline
Visa-free
No advance embassy visit in the normal tourist flow.
- 1Check passport validity, onward ticket and stay proof.
- 2Board with your travel documents ready.
- 3Complete arrival formalities at immigration.
Month-by-month decision table
Climate normals; demand is an editorial signal, not live pricing.
Flight reality
5 carriers and 8 non-stop routes in our route snapshot.
~1.5h non-stop flying from Delhi · 670 km straight-line
Direct from Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Varanasi
First-timer confidence
85/100
Based on entry effort, flight length, payments and your selected month—not a safety rating.
UPI/RuPay has some local support.
Accommodation reality
Before booking, test a listing’s claimed walk time, review patterns and photos against open-map evidence.
Run the Stay Truth check →Make it a wider trip
🇧🇹 Bhutan · ~640 km · Visa-free🇲🇲 Myanmar · ~1,560 km · On arrival🇹🇭 Thailand · ~2,190 km · Visa-free🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · ~2,360 km · On arrival
See route pairings →Live watchlist
Visa record: refreshed from the passport dataset daily. No category change against Raahi’s tracked baseline.
Travel advice: the official UK FCDO advisory further down this brief is checked daily when available.
Getting there from India
Delhi → Nepal: ~1.5h non-stop · 670 km
Check live flights5
carriers non-stop
8
non-stop routes
Kathmandu
arrival cities
Find lowest fare
Route snapshot, not a live timetable. Confirm schedules and fares before booking.
Live trip estimate
Flight + stay, grounded in current offers
Uses live flight offers and live hotel inventory. INR subtotal uses the current mid-market USD/INR rate; it excludes return flights, food, transfers, taxes or fees not in the provider total, and can change before checkout.
Live stays
Hotel rates for your dates
Know before you go
Power
Type C/D/M · 230V
Driving
Drives on the left
Local time now
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Emergency
100
Tap water
Stick to bottled water
Tipping
~10%
What to pack
Clothing
Tech & power
Health
Documents & money
For your kind of trip
Built from this destination’s climate, plugs & vibe — tick as you pack.
Staying connected in Nepal
eSIM, local SIM, or roam on your Indian number
eSIM — easiest
Buy before you fly and activate on landing — no shop, no swapping. Works on most phones since the iPhone XS / recent Android. Providers: Airalo, Holafly, Nomad.
Nepal eSIMsLocal SIM — cheapest
Best value for longer stays. Grab a prepaid tourist SIM at the airport or a carrier store — carry your passport (needed to register).
NcellNepal Telecom
Your money in Nepal
💱 Quick converter
1,600
Indicative mid-market rate — not a transaction rate.
Pay like home in Nepal
UPI
UPI QR payments
● Live here
Ru
RuPay cards
○ Not live yet
UPI works at Fonepay-enabled shops across Nepal — scan and pay in NPR straight from your Indian app.
Acceptance changes as NPCI adds corridors — confirm at the point of sale.
Money & forex in Nepal
Forex card, cash & cards — the cheapest ways to spend
Indian rupees are widely accepted in Nepal. You may not need forex at all — carry ₹100/₹500 notes for everyday spends (older ₹2000 notes can be refused).
Forex card — best value
Load ₹ into USD/EUR before you flyat a locked rate — no ~3.5% card markup, works at ATMs & shops. NPR usually isn't loadable, so carry a USD/EUR card and withdraw NPR locally.
Say hello in Nepali
Hello
नमस्ते“na-mas-te”Thank you
धन्यवाद“dhan-ya-baad”How much?
कति हो?“ka-ti ho”A little India in Nepal
Real places around Kathmandu
Indian restaurants
Places via OpenStreetMap contributors — listings may be incomplete; verify before you go.
Ask about Nepal
Grounded in this page's data — visa, timing, money, safety
Answers are grounded in this page’s data and won’t invent fees, dates or numbers. General info — verify official sources before you travel.
Pair Nepal with…
Nearby hops for one big trip
~640 kmBhutanVisa-free
~1,560 kmMyanmar
On arrival
~2,190 kmThailandVisa-free
~2,360 kmSri LankaOn arrival
Straight-line distance between capitals — a rough sense of how close, not a route.
More like Nepal
Where you'll wander
Iconic places in Nepal
Photos via Wikimedia Commons.
Evidence ledger · Nepal
What Raahi used, when it was last refreshed, and what it cannot promise
Entry category ↗Passport-index dataset for the Indian passport · refreshed dailyClimate timing ↗Open-Meteo · ERA5 2021–2023Non-stop route context ↗OpenFlights community route snapshot · not a live scheduleOfficial safety advice ↗UK FCDO summary when available · refreshed daily
Source data supports Raahi’s recommendations; it does not replace the destination’s immigration authority, airline or live booking provider.
Important — verify before you travel
Raahi presents visa and entry information for the Indian passport compiled from public datasets. This is general information for planning, not legal or immigration advice.
Visa rules, fees, and processing times change frequently and without notice, and the underlying data can be outdated, incomplete, or wrong. Requirements also depend on your specific situation — purpose of travel, length of stay, past travel history, and connecting/transit countries.
Before you book or travel, always confirmwith the destination country's official embassy, consulate, or immigration website, and with your airline. Raahi holds no responsibility for travel decisions made using this information.
