How many days do you need in Mumbai?
Three days. That is the length of the itinerary we built for Mumbai.
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.
Mumbai · 3 days India
Best time: November to February, after the monsoon and before the heat builds.
Fort and the seafrontDay 1
📍8:30 AMGateway of India
The 1924 basalt arch on the harbour, built for a royal visit and now the city’s front door; the Taj Mahal Palace hotel faces it across the square.
🚶 ~10 min · 🚗 ~1 min · 0.4 mi
📍11:00 AMChhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya
The city’s main museum under an Indo-Saracenic dome: miniature paintings, sculpture and arms, formerly the Prince of Wales Museum.
🚶 ~34 min · 🚗 ~4 min · 1.3 mi
📍4:30 PMMarine Drive
Three kilometres of Art Deco seafront curving to Chowpatty beach; at dusk the streetlights become the Queen’s Necklace.
The island and the terminusDay 2
📍9:00 AMElephanta Caves
Rock-cut Shiva temples from around the sixth century on an island an hour’s ferry from the Gateway, centred on the three-faced Trimurti carving.
🚗 ~23 min · 6.5 mi
📍2:30 PMChhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus
The 1888 Victorian Gothic railway terminus, UNESCO-listed and still one of the busiest stations in the country.
🚶 ~15 min · 🚗 ~2 min · 0.6 mi
🍽️5:00 PMCrawford Market
Fruit, spice and household halls under a Norman-Gothic clocktower, the old city’s produce exchange since 1869.
Malabar Hill to BandraDay 3
📍8:30 AMBanganga Tank
An ancient temple tank ringed by shrines in Walkeshwar, a pocket of the city older than everything around it.
🚗 ~10 min · 2.8 mi
📍11:00 AMHaji Ali Dargah
A mosque and Sufi tomb on an islet reached by a low causeway; time the walk for low tide.
🚗 ~15 min · 4.3 mi
📍4:30 PMBandra Bandstand and Mount Mary
The sea promenade of the western suburbs, ending below the hilltop Basilica of Our Lady of the Mount.
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