TimezoneOverlap:HowUSTeamsCollaborateEffectivelyWithNepal-BasedDevelopers

Kathmandu is roughly 10 hours 45 minutes ahead of New York and about 13 hours 45 minutes ahead of San Francisco. In practice, this means a Nepal-based developer's working day (Sunday–Friday, 09:00–18:00 Nepal time) overlaps with the tail end of a US East Coast morning and, for West Coast teams, barely overlaps in real time at all — which is exactly where async workflow habits matter most.

The reframe that helps most US teams: instead of thinking of this as "they're not available when I am," think of it as "my evening handoff becomes their full working day, and their handoff becomes ready before my next morning starts."

For East Coast teams, there's a real live overlap window worth using for a weekly sync call or ad hoc questions — typically late morning to early afternoon Eastern time. For West Coast teams with minimal live overlap, the workflow shifts almost entirely async: a clear end-of-day written update from you becomes the developer's starting brief, and their end-of-day update is waiting for you the next morning.

This works best with specific habits: end-of-day written summaries instead of relying on live conversation, recorded short video walkthroughs for anything visual, and a shared task tracker so status is visible without needing a live meeting to check on it.

Many US teams settle into a rhythm of one live weekly call (for planning and any complex discussion that genuinely benefits from real-time back-and-forth) plus daily async written updates. This structure tends to produce faster overall progress than a same-timezone hire working strict 9-to-5 hours, simply because work is happening across more of the 24-hour day.