Road distance between cities in Nepal

The road distance and free-flow driving time come from OSRM, a routing engine, run once over OpenStreetMap's Nepal road network for every pair among 12 major cities and stored so the pages stay static. It returns the shortest drivable path between the two points, which is not always the same road a bus or truck conventionally takes.

It is a best-effort cross-reference, not a turn-by-turn trace of the OSRM route. Where both cities sit directly on (or just off) the same catalogued highway, the match is shown as a likely route. Where no single highway connects them end to end, we show the highway(s) near each city as a possible combination and say so plainly, rather than asserting a specific route with false confidence.

For some short, high-traffic legs, for example near Kathmandu, the OSRM shortest path can follow a newer bypass, fast-track, or local link road that is quicker than the full historic highway alignment. Treat the highway name as the corridor the journey generally uses, not a guarantee of the exact road taken.

No. It covers the same 12 major cities as Amarnepal's straight-line distance pages, Kathmandu, Pokhara, Bharatpur (Chitwan), Butwal, Biratnagar, Birgunj, Nepalgunj, Dhangadhi, Janakpur, Dharan, Hetauda and Itahari. Adding more cities needs fresh routing data, which is out of scope here.