Trek cost calculator

How the estimate is built

The calculator adds up the on-the-ground costs a trekker pays in Nepal: permits at the foreign-national rate, teahouse lodging and food per day, transport to and from the trailhead, and the guide and porter fees split across your group. A 10% contingency sits on top, because prices on a trail are not fixed and a weather day in a lodge is never free.

Permits are the most predictable line. A Sagarmatha National Park entry is about USD 23 plus the Khumbu municipality fee, the Annapurna Conservation Area Permit (ACAP) about USD 23, Langtang National Park about USD 25, and a TIMS card about USD 15. Restricted areas are priced per day or per week instead: Manaslu is USD 100 for the first seven days in autumn and USD 15 for each extra day, and Upper Mustang is USD 50 per day. The permit checker itemises these per route.

What moves the total

Altitude. Everything a lodge sells has to be carried or flown in, so a dal bhat that costs a few dollars in Pokhara can cost three times that above 4,000 m, and a hot shower or a charged phone becomes a paid extra. The daily lodging and food rate in the calculator rises with each route's height and remoteness for that reason. Guides are billed per day for the whole group, at roughly USD 30, and porters at roughly USD 20 per day, one for every two trekkers, so a group of four pays far less per person for the same support than a solo trekker does. Optional gear rental is counted once, at about USD 80.

What is not included

International flights, travel insurance with helicopter-evacuation cover, visa fees, tips, and nights in Kathmandu or Pokhara before and after the trek. Mountain flights are the biggest wild card: a Lukla flight is included in the Everest transport line, but a cancellation that forces a helicopter or a lost day is not. Read the line-by-line Everest Base Camp budget and the guide to teahouse costs by altitude for the figures behind the defaults, then compare candidate routes on the routes directory.