How many days do you need in Delhi?
Three days. That is the length of the itinerary we built for Delhi.
Here is what each day holds. Every stop below carries its time, and every gap says how to get to the next stop, with the walk or drive time wherever both stops are mapped.
Delhi · 3 days India
Best time: October to March for tolerable temperatures.
Old DelhiDay 1
🏰8:30 AMRed Fort
Shah Jahan’s seventeenth-century walled palace in red sandstone, the seat of Mughal power until 1857.
🚶 ~16 min · 🚗 ~2 min · 0.6 mi
📍11:30 AMJama Masjid
India’s largest mosque, with a courtyard for twenty-five thousand and a minaret you can climb for the rooftops of the old city.
🚶 ~12 min · 🚗 ~2 min · 0.4 mi
📍1:00 PMChandni Chowk
The main market street of the old city and the lanes off it: spices, silver, wedding cloth and street food in dense succession.
Tombs and gardensDay 2
📍9:00 AMHumayun’s Tomb
The first great Mughal garden tomb, and the design the Taj Mahal was later built from.
🚶 ~51 min · 🚗 ~7 min · 1.9 mi
🌳12:30 PMLodhi Gardens
Fifteenth-century tombs scattered through a public park that the city actually uses for walking and yoga.
🚗 ~18 min · 5.2 mi
📍4:00 PMQutub Minar
A seventy-three-metre victory tower begun in 1193, beside an iron pillar that has resisted rust for over a millennium.
New DelhiDay 3
📍9:30 AMIndia Gate and Kartavya Path
The war memorial arch at the end of the ceremonial avenue laid out by Lutyens.
🚶 ~17 min · 🚗 ~2 min · 0.6 mi
🖼️12:00 PMNational Museum
The best single overview of Indian art and archaeology, from Indus Valley seals to Mughal miniatures.
🚶 ~54 min · 🚗 ~7 min · 2.0 mi
📍5:00 PMHazrat Nizamuddin Dargah
A Sufi shrine reached through a narrow market lane, with qawwali singing on Thursday evenings.
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