Can I live in Nepal on $1,000 a month?

Comfortably. $1,000 a month clears CostLiving’s moderate benchmark for Nepal of $900 with a $100 buffer, and sits nearly double the budget tier of $540. In Kathmandu, where the moderate tier runs $825 a month, $1,000 funds a good apartment (rent is remarkably cheap, $119 a month at the national moderate tier), eating out regularly, a motorbike or ride-shares, and weekend trips, with change left for the visa-renewal line that every long-stayer learns to budget. The two spending traps are imported goods, which carry landlocked-country markups, and tourist-zone pricing in Pokhara’s lakeside or Thamel, where the same beer costs three times the local price two streets away. The practical constraint on the Nepal plan is rarely money: it’s the visa itself, since Nepal has no digital-nomad route and tourist visas cap out at 150 days a year. Full figures are on our Nepal cost of living page.