Coverage

All 77 districts.
And 220+ countries.

Anyone can deliver in Kathmandu. The test of a courier is whether a parcel reaches Humla, how long it honestly takes, and whether the same tracking number still works once it leaves the country.

  • 7 provinces
  • 220+ countries
  • 9 overseas gateways
  • Own + partner network
Map of Nepal showing Udan Express coverage across all seven provincesKathmanduPokharaBiratnagarBirgunjButwalNepalgunjDhangadhi

The network

What coverage actually means here

Numbers we can stand behind, with the distinction between owned and partner operations stated rather than blurred.

Districts served
77Districts servedEvery one in Nepal
Provinces
7ProvincesAll of them
Branches
12Branches6 are sorting hubs
Riders at launch
240Riders at launchOwn last-mile fleet

By province

Seven provinces, seven different problems

Serving the Madhesh plain and serving Karnali are not the same job. The network is built differently in each, and priced differently too.

  • Koshi

    14 districts

    Eastern hills and terai, including Ilam and the tea corridor.

    Served from Biratnagar

  • Madhesh

    8 districts

    Dense southern plain, the shortest routes and the highest volume per square kilometre.

    Served from Birgunj

  • Bagmati

    13 districts

    The Valley plus the central hills. Same-day territory.

    Served from Kathmandu

  • Gandaki

    11 districts

    Pokhara and the western hills, up to Mustang and Manang.

    Served from Pokhara

  • Lumbini

    12 districts

    Western terai, second-busiest corridor after Bagmati.

    Served from Butwal & Nepalgunj

  • Karnali

    10 districts

    The hardest region in the country to serve, and priced as such.

    Served from Nepalgunj

  • Sudurpashchim

    9 districts

    Far west, from the Kailali plain to the Bajhang hills.

    Served from Dhangadhi

77 districts across 7 provinces. District counts follow the current federal structure.

Branches & hubs

Twelve locations, six of them sorting hubs

A hub sorts and dispatches line-haul. A branch receives, delivers and takes counter drop-offs. The difference decides how fast a route can be.

  • Kathmandu Head Office

    Kathmandu · Bagmati

    KTM-HOSORTING HUB

  • Lalitpur Branch

    Lalitpur · Bagmati

    LTP-BR

  • Bhaktapur Branch

    Bhaktapur · Bagmati

    BKT-BR

  • Pokhara Hub

    Pokhara · Gandaki

    PKR-HUBSORTING HUB

  • Chitwan Branch

    Bharatpur · Bagmati

    CTW-BR

  • Biratnagar Hub

    Biratnagar · Koshi

    BRT-HUBSORTING HUB

  • Dharan Branch

    Dharan · Koshi

    DRN-BR

  • Birgunj Hub

    Birgunj · Madhesh

    BRG-HUBSORTING HUB

  • Janakpur Branch

    Janakpur · Madhesh

    JNK-BR

  • Butwal Branch

    Butwal · Lumbini

    BTW-BR

  • Nepalgunj Hub

    Nepalgunj · Lumbini

    NPJ-HUBSORTING HUB

  • Dhangadhi Hub

    Dhangadhi · Sudurpashchim

    DHG-HUBSORTING HUB

Hub and spoke

Six hubs is what makes overnight possible

Speed between two cities is a property of the network, not of the vehicle. Overnight to Biratnagar works because there is a sorting hub in Biratnagar to receive the line-haul at 4 am.

Hub to hub every evening
Sealed vehicles on fixed departures, so a parcel never waits a day for a load to fill.
Spokes off each hub
Branches handle local delivery, which keeps the last leg short and the promise honest.
One sort, not three
Parcels are sorted once at origin and once at destination. Every extra handling is an extra chance to lose something.
A hub and spoke network linking regional sorting centres

Zones

Six zones, and what each one costs you in days

Zone follows road quality and backhaul economics rather than straight-line distance. A highway district 300 km away is often cheaper and faster than a hill district 80 km away.

  • Zone 111 days

    Kathmandu Valley

    First kilogram
    Rs 90
    Each extra kg
    Rs 35
  • Zone 212 days

    Valley rim & central highway

    First kilogram
    Rs 130
    Each extra kg
    Rs 45
  • Zone 323 days

    Terai & regional cities

    First kilogram
    Rs 170
    Each extra kg
    Rs 55
  • Zone 434 days

    Hill districts

    First kilogram
    Rs 220
    Each extra kg
    Rs 70
  • Zone 546 days

    Far west & high hills

    First kilogram
    Rs 290
    Each extra kg
    Rs 95
  • Zone 669 days

    Karnali & remote

    First kilogram
    Rs 390
    Each extra kg
    Rs 130

The promise

We would rather quote nine days and hit it

The temptation in this industry is to advertise the best case and apologise for the rest. A merchant cannot run a business on a best case — they need a date they can repeat to a customer.

Working days, not calendar days
Saturday is Nepal’s weekend. The promise already accounts for it, so a Friday booking does not quote Saturday.
Set at booking, shown to the recipient
The customer sees the same window you do, by SMS, before the parcel moves.
Seasonal reality stated
Monsoon and festival periods extend hill routes. We say so on the day rather than after.
A clock showing the delivery promise window being metOn time

High-volume districts

Where most parcels actually go

The districts below carry the bulk of national e-commerce volume. Every other district in Nepal is served too — these are simply the ones merchants ask about first.

High-volume districts with their delivery zone and promise window
DistrictProvinceZonePromiseNotes
KathmanduBagmatiZone 11–1 daysStandard
LalitpurBagmatiZone 11–1 daysStandard
BhaktapurBagmatiZone 11–1 daysStandard
KavrepalanchokBagmatiZone 21–2 daysStandard
MakwanpurBagmatiZone 21–2 daysStandard
ChitwanBagmatiZone 21–2 daysStandard
DhadingBagmatiZone 21–2 daysStandard
KaskiGandakiZone 21–2 daysStandard
TanahunGandakiZone 21–2 daysStandard
SyangjaGandakiZone 32–3 daysStandard
GorkhaGandakiZone 32–3 daysStandard
MustangGandakiZone 54–6 daysRemote surcharge
ManangGandakiZone 54–6 daysRemote surcharge
MorangKoshiZone 32–3 daysStandard
SunsariKoshiZone 32–3 daysStandard
JhapaKoshiZone 32–3 daysStandard
IlamKoshiZone 43–4 daysStandard
TaplejungKoshiZone 54–6 daysRemote surcharge
SolukhumbuKoshiZone 54–6 daysRemote surcharge
ParsaMadheshZone 32–3 daysStandard
BaraMadheshZone 32–3 daysStandard
DhanushaMadheshZone 32–3 daysStandard
SaptariMadheshZone 43–4 daysStandard
SirahaMadheshZone 43–4 daysStandard
RupandehiLumbiniZone 32–3 daysStandard
PalpaLumbiniZone 43–4 daysStandard
DangLumbiniZone 43–4 daysStandard
BankeLumbiniZone 43–4 daysStandard
BardiyaLumbiniZone 43–4 daysStandard
SurkhetKarnaliZone 54–6 daysStandard
JumlaKarnaliZone 66–9 daysRemote surcharge
HumlaKarnaliZone 66–9 daysRemote surcharge
DolpaKarnaliZone 66–9 daysRemote surcharge
KailaliSudurpashchimZone 54–6 daysStandard
KanchanpurSudurpashchimZone 54–6 daysStandard
DotiSudurpashchimZone 66–9 daysRemote surcharge
BajhangSudurpashchimZone 66–9 daysRemote surcharge

Own vs partner

Two kinds of coverage, and we say which is which

Claiming national coverage while quietly handing half the country to a third party is standard practice in this industry. We would rather draw the line on the map.

Own operations on the corridor
Our branches, our riders, our vehicles — from Dhangadhi to Biratnagar, plus the Valley.
Vetted partners beyond it
Fixed schedules, agreed handling standards, and the same tracking number throughout.
One settlement either way
A Humla delivery settles into the same weekly transfer as a Lalitpur one.
A radar sweep covering delivery points across a service area

The hard parts

What actually makes Nepal difficult to deliver in

Not distance. These six things, in roughly this order.

  • Addresses are not addresses

    Most of the country is not addressable by street number. Landmarks and a working phone number are the real address.

  • Monsoon closes roads

    Landslides shut hill routes for days. Planning around it beats apologising after it.

  • Backhaul is usually empty

    A truck to Jumla comes back with nothing. That economics is in the zone rate, not hidden.

  • Signal drops in the valleys

    The rider app has to work offline or the tracking record has holes in it.

  • Cash, not cards

    COD dominates outside the corridor, so the cash-handling chain has to be as reliable as the parcel chain.

  • People, not routes

    A rider who knows a neighbourhood delivers more than a route optimiser that does not.

A parcel to the far west

What a Zone 6 delivery actually involves

Six to nine days is not slowness. It is four legs, three handovers and one road that may or may not be open.

  1. 1

    Kathmandu hub

    Sorted the evening it is collected and loaded for the western line-haul.

  2. 2

    Nepalgunj hub

    Arrives overnight, re-sorted for the hill routes and consolidated with other Karnali freight.

  3. 3

    Partner transport

    Onto the scheduled hill service — which runs on fixed days, because a half-empty truck helps nobody.

  4. 4

    Local delivery

    Final leg by local rider, with a call ahead because there is no second attempt window out here.

Line-haul

The overnight run is the spine of the whole thing

Sealed vehicles leave every hub each evening on fixed departures. Everything else in the network is organised around making those departures.

Fixed departure times
Not “when the vehicle is full”. A parcel that misses the cut-off waits hours, not days.
Sealed and manifested
Every vehicle carries a manifest scanned at both ends, so a discrepancy is found the same night.
Corridor daily, hills scheduled
Daily on the highway, fixed days into the hills. Both published.
A line-haul truck driving between regional hubs at night

Sorting

A mis-sort caught at the hub costs an hour

The same mis-sort caught in the destination district costs three days and a phone call from an angry customer. That is the entire argument for scanning on the belt.

Overhead scanners on the belt
Labels are read as parcels move, so wrong-destination items are diverted before they travel.
Fragile diverted, not carried past
Segregation is a physical lane, not a sticker somebody is meant to notice.
Every scan on the tracking page
Which is what turns tracking from decoration into a record.
Parcels moving along a sorting conveyor inside a hub

Offline

The app works where the signal does not

A rider in a Karnali valley has no bars for hours. If scanning required a connection, the tracking history for exactly the districts people worry about most would be the emptiest.

Scans queue on the device
Durably, with the timestamp of the actual scan rather than of the eventual upload.
Replayed automatically
The moment signal returns, without the rider having to remember anything.
De-duplicated on arrival
Every queued write carries an id, so a replay after a flaky connection never doubles an event.
Delivery updates queued on a phone with no signal, syncing later

Collection

We come to you anywhere we operate directly

Pickup is available across the Valley, the corridor cities and every branch town. Beyond that, counter drop-off at the nearest branch is usually faster than waiting for a scheduled collection.

Two-hour windows
Booked by 11 am for same-day collection in direct-service areas.
Daily slot at volume
From 20 parcels a day, at no extra charge.
Counter drop-off everywhere
All twelve branches, with a later cut-off than pickup.
A pickup van collecting stock from a merchant's shop

Warehousing

Or hold stock closer to your customers

If a meaningful share of your orders go west, holding stock at our Kathmandu hub — or eventually a regional one — takes days out of the promise without changing the price.

Dispatch from the hub
Removes the pickup leg entirely and gets stock onto the evening line-haul the same day.
Live stock counts
Every SKU with a location and a count you can see.
Per-order, not per-month
Your regional presence stops being a lease.
Racked shelving holding merchant stock in a fulfilment warehouse

Air

When the road closes, there is still an answer

Monsoon landslides shut hill routes for days at a time. For genuinely urgent consignments we can move to air into the regional airport and road the final leg.

Days instead of a fortnight
When a road route has closed entirely, this is the difference between late and never.
Quoted per consignment
Air capacity in Nepal fluctuates. A fixed published rate would be a fiction.
Weight-limited
Far lower caps than road. We confirm what will fit before you commit to your customer.
A cargo aircraft carrying parcels over the mountains

The last mile

Coverage is ultimately a person on a scooter

Every map on this page resolves, in the end, to whether someone finds an unmarked door in a ward with no street names — and whether they call first.

Local riders on local routes
Someone who knows the neighbourhood beats a route optimiser that has never been there.
A call before arrival
The single biggest lever on first-attempt success anywhere in the country.
Salaried, not pure piece rate
So waiting two minutes at a gate is not a financial penalty.
A team of Udan Express riders in uniform

Delivery

What arriving actually looks like

A scan, a call, a doorstep, a signature, and — on most Nepali orders — a count of banknotes. All four hundred metres of it recorded against the tracking number.

Proof of delivery captured
Who received it and when, with a photo where the merchant asks for one.
Three attempts, then honesty
Each failure with its reason, visible to you the same day.
COD reconciled at shift end
Counted against the manifest before the rider signs off.
A delivery rider carrying a parcel box on a scooter

Questions

Coverage questions

What merchants ask before trusting a national claim.

Do you really deliver to all 77 districts?
Yes, with a distinction worth being clear about. Roughly forty districts along the highway corridor and the Valley are served by our own branches and riders. The remainder are served through vetted partner transport on a fixed schedule, under the same tracking number and the same settlement. Both are real coverage; one has a longer promise date.
How long does a parcel to Karnali actually take?
Six to nine working days to Jumla, Humla or Dolpa, and longer during monsoon if a road closes. We publish that rather than quoting three days and going quiet, because a merchant who can tell their customer the truth keeps the customer.
What happens when a road is closed by a landslide?
The affected parcels are flagged on the ops board and the tracking page shows a hold with the reason. You are told, rather than watching a promise date pass in silence. For genuinely urgent consignments we can look at air freight into the regional airport.
Can I collect from a branch instead of paying for delivery?
Yes. Branch collection is available at all twelve locations and it removes the last-mile portion of the charge. The recipient gets an SMS when the parcel arrives at the branch, along with the collection hours.
Which districts carry the remote surcharge?
The districts flagged remote in the published district table — principally Mustang, Manang, Taplejung, Solukhumbu, Jumla, Humla, Dolpa, Doti and Bajhang. The surcharge is a flat Rs 150, shown as its own line on the quote.

Beyond Nepal

Where a parcel goes once it leaves the country

Working days, door to door, including customs clearance at both ends. Ranges rather than single figures, because a Monday booking and a Thursday booking do not catch the same connections.

  • South Asia

    2–4 days

    India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan +2 more

    Trade samples, spare parts, documents, e-commerce parcels

  • Middle East

    3–5 days

    UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait +2 more

    Family parcels, documents, food and clothing for workers abroad

  • East & Southeast Asia

    3–6 days

    China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore +3 more

    Inbound e-commerce stock, electronics, garments, machinery parts

  • Europe & UK

    4–7 days

    United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy +3 more

    Pashmina, handicrafts, tea and coffee, felt goods, silver jewellery

  • North America

    4–8 days

    United States, Canada, Mexico

    Handicrafts, apparel, thangka art, ayurvedic and herbal products

  • Australia & New Zealand

    5–8 days

    Australia, New Zealand, Fiji

    Family parcels, student documents, handicrafts

  • Africa & Latin America

    6–12 days

    South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Egypt +3 more

    Documents, trade samples, project cargo

Clearing and consolidating through 9 gateways: Delhi · Dubai · Hong Kong · Singapore · Doha · Istanbul · Frankfurt · London · New York

Check your route before you commit

Put your two districts into the rate calculator and you will get the price and the honest promise window in the same breath.