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India

191 cities in the atlas · 106 airports with scheduled flights

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Capital: New Delhi
Currency: INR; Indian Rupee
Local time: India Standard TimeUTC+05:30
Calling code: +91
Driving: On the left
Plugs: Type C and D

Facts

India in figures

From named datasets: GeoNames, CLDR, the World Bank and Wikidata. Each is credited at the foot of the page.

Capital: New Delhi
Currency: Indian Rupee INRToday's indicative rate: INR 10 ≈ USD 0.105Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
Languages: Official: Hindi and EnglishOfficial in part of the country: Bangla, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Odia, Punjabi, Assamese, Maithili, Nepali, Santali, Kashmiri, Konkani, Sindhi, Khasi and SanskritSpoken: English, Hindi, Bangla, Telugu, Marathi and Tamil
Time zones: India Standard TimeUTC+05:30
Calling code: +91
Driving: On the left
Plugs: Type C and D230 V · 50 HzAs recorded in Wikidata.
Emergency numbers: 112general emergency100police101fire108ambulance102patient transport, mainly for mothers and childrenOfficial source: Ministry of Home Affairs, India and National Health Mission, India. Check them locally on arrival; they are not the only safety information you need.
Population: 1,463,865,525 (2025, World Bank)
Area: 3,287,590 km²
Internet domain: .in
Land borders: Bangladesh Bhutan China Myanmar Nepal Pakistan

When to go

Climate across India

In October to February, more than half of the 163 cities with figures in India have a mean high between 18°C and 32°C and under 150 mm of rain.

Mild to warm and dry
Mild to warm, humid or showery
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The main cities, month by month
City	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
New Delhi	21°	26°	32°	39°	43°	42°	37°	34°	33°	32°	28°	23°
Mumbai	31°	34°	37°	38°	37°	32°	28°	28°	29°	31°	31°	30°
Kolkata	24°	30°	35°	38°	37°	33°	31°	31°	30°	30°	27°	24°
Delhi	21°	26°	32°	39°	43°	42°	37°	34°	33°	32°	28°	23°
Bengaluru	29°	32°	35°	35°	33°	29°	28°	28°	28°	27°	26°	27°
Chennai	28°	30°	34°	35°	36°	35°	34°	33°	32°	30°	28°	27°
Hyderabad	29°	33°	37°	39°	40°	34°	31°	29°	29°	29°	28°	28°
Jaipur	22°	26°	32°	38°	42°	41°	36°	33°	34°	33°	29°	24°
Ahmedabad	29°	33°	37°	42°	44°	39°	34°	32°	32°	34°	32°	29°
Agra	23°	27°	34°	40°	44°	43°	37°	34°	34°	33°	29°	24°
Cities good for going, of 163	154	95	21	7	4	5	10	11	14	87	138	156

Mean daily highs, modelled for an area about 50 km across: NASA POWER climatology, 2001–2020. A cell's swatch says what the month is like (key above).

On the map

Where India is

The dashed box is the extent of the country's main landmass, from Natural Earth; outlying islands fall outside it. The dots are the cities with pages of their own.

Land borders

Cities

Cities in India

All 191 places in the atlas: capitals, cities of 300,000 people or more, the places its airports serve, and the ones we have written guides to.

More cities · 133

Smaller places with an airport · 28

Airports

Airports in India

Airports with scheduled flights and an IATA code, from OurAirports.

Large airports

Medium airports · 63

Photographs

India in pictures

Photographs from Wikimedia Commons, each credited to its author, with its licence.

Mumbai
Photo: Dr Vikramjit Kakati · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
New Delhi
Photo: Navonildutta4 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Kolkata
Photo: Ketanmehta4u · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Chennai
Photo: Saiphani02 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Hyderabad
Toli Masjid · Photo: iMahesh · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Jaipur
Jantar Mantar · Photo: Knowledge Seeker · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Guides

Our guides in India

Visas and entry

Entry rules depend on your passport and change often, so this page does not state them. Check the destination government's official immigration website, or ask our visa desk to check your case for you.

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Plan it

Plan a trip to India

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Sources for this page

All sources and licences

OurAirports — Airport data from OurAirports (ourairports.com), public domain.
NASA POWER (Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources), Climatology API v2 — These data were obtained from the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) POWER Project funded through the NASA Earth Science/Applied Science Program.
Wikidata — Facts from Wikidata (wikidata.org), CC0.
Wikimedia Commons — Each photograph's author and licence are printed beside it.
Natural Earth v5.1.2, 1:10m admin-0 map units — Made with Natural Earth. Licence: Public domain
World Bank, World Development Indicators: Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL) — Population: World Bank, World Development Indicators (SP.POP.TOTL), CC BY 4.0.