India’s National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) doesn’t publish a full city-to-city distance matrix, but it built and maintains something arguably more useful for this tool: the Golden Quadrilateral, a network of national highways completed in 2001 that connects the country’s four largest metros — Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, and Kolkata — with an officially documented length for each segment. This tool uses all four directly: Chennai to Kolkata via NH-16 (1,684km, the longest single segment), Kolkata to Delhi via NH-19 and NH-44 (1,453km), Delhi to Mumbai via NH-48 (1,419km), and Mumbai to Chennai via NH-48 (1,290km).
A fifth verified route, Bengaluru to Chennai (258km), comes from the newer Bengaluru-Chennai Expressway, another NHAI-documented project still being completed in phases through 2027. Every other route among this tool’s 44 cities falls back to the Haversine-based GPS estimate, calibrated against Nigeria’s full verified road matrix. The town list itself covers 12 major state-capital hubs plus 30 further major cities by population — Mumbai and Delhi’s own metro-area satellite towns (Navi Mumbai, Thane, Ghaziabad, Faridabad, and similar) are deliberately excluded as redundant with their parent city.
Even on the Golden Quadrilateral, much of the network runs through towns and cities rather than as a fully access-controlled expressway, meaning intersections, local traffic, and slower-moving vehicles routinely stretch travel time well beyond what the distance alone suggests — the classic Delhi-Mumbai route via old NH-48 can take 24-28 hours despite being “only” 1,419km. The new Delhi-Mumbai Expressway, once fully complete, is designed to cut that closer to 13 hours. Monsoon season (roughly June to September) can flood sections of highway across much of the country and add serious delays. Toll plazas are frequent on national highways, and keeping a FASTag topped up avoids long queues at each one. As with any calculator, treat the figures here as a planning baseline and check current road and weather conditions before a long trip.
Reviewed by Evelyn John, Auto Sales Expert. Verified routes sourced from NHAI’s official Golden Quadrilateral segment lengths and the Bengaluru-Chennai Expressway. All other routes are Haversine-based estimates — see FAQ below.
All 43 other cities in this tool, closest to farthest from Delhi.
| # | Town | Region/State | Road km |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Meerut | Uttar Pradesh | 81 km |
| 2 | Agra | Uttar Pradesh | 256 km |
| 3 | Chandigarh | Punjab & Haryana | 335 km |
| 4 | Jaipur | Rajasthan | 340 km |
| 5 | Ludhiana | Punjab | 404 km |
| 6 | Gwalior | Madhya Pradesh | 405 km |
| 7 | Kanpur | Uttar Pradesh | 557 km |
| 8 | Amritsar | Punjab | 581 km |
| 9 | Kota | Rajasthan | 594 km |
| 10 | Lucknow | Uttar Pradesh | 602 km |
| 11 | Raipur | Chhattisgarh | 623 km |
| 12 | Prayagraj | Uttar Pradesh | 840 km |
| 13 | Bhopal | Madhya Pradesh | 871 km |
| 14 | Gorakhpur | Uttar Pradesh | 927 km |
| 15 | Srinagar | Jammu & Kashmir | 937 km |
| 16 | Jabalpur | Madhya Pradesh | 968 km |
| 17 | Indore | Madhya Pradesh | 978 km |
| 18 | Varanasi | Uttar Pradesh | 989 km |
| 19 | Vadodara | Gujarat | 1,098 km |
| 20 | Ahmedabad | Gujarat | 1,130 km |
| 21 | Patna | Bihar | 1,151 km |
| 22 | Nagpur | Maharashtra | 1,155 km |
| 23 | Surat | Gujarat | 1,269 km |
| 24 | Rajkot | Gujarat | 1,293 km |
| 25 | Aurangabad | Maharashtra | 1,342 km |
| 26 | Ranchi | Jharkhand | 1,349 km |
| 27 | Nashik | Maharashtra | 1,382 km |
| 28 | Jodhpur | Rajasthan | 1,407 km |
| 29 | Mumbai | Maharashtra | 1,419 km |
| 30 | Dhanbad | Jharkhand | 1,436 km |
| 31 | Kolkata | West Bengal | 1,453 km |
| 32 | Jamshedpur | Jharkhand | 1,495 km |
| 33 | Pune | Maharashtra | 1,590 km |
| 34 | Solapur | Maharashtra | 1,658 km |
| 35 | Hyderabad | Telangana | 1,700 km |
| 36 | Visakhapatnam | Andhra Pradesh | 1,841 km |
| 37 | Vijayawada | Andhra Pradesh | 1,883 km |
| 38 | Bengaluru | Karnataka | 2,354 km |
| 39 | Chennai | Tamil Nadu | 2,375 km |
| 40 | Coimbatore | Tamil Nadu | 2,649 km |
| 41 | Tiruchirappalli | Tamil Nadu | 2,685 km |
| 42 | Madurai | Tamil Nadu | 2,815 km |
| 43 | Tirunelveli | Tamil Nadu | 2,992 km |
About 1,419km via NH-48, part of the Golden Quadrilateral - an official NHAI highway length.
No full matrix, but NHAI documents the four official Golden Quadrilateral segments (Delhi-Mumbai-Chennai-Kolkata), used here directly.
About 1,684km via NH-16, the longest single Golden Quadrilateral segment.
About 258km via the newer Bengaluru-Chennai Expressway, an official NHAI route.
Much of NH-48 runs through towns rather than as a fully access-controlled expressway, so a 1,419km route can take 24-28 hours. The new Delhi-Mumbai Expressway aims to cut that to around 13 hours once complete.
Yes — pick a vehicle type and current pump price (₹/litre) above. Prices vary significantly by state, so adjust to your actual route.