Guide fee · India Gate, Delhi
India Gate — guide fee, and whether you need one
A licensed guide at India Gate is ₹900 for a half day and ₹1,500 for a full day in English, in ten languages up to ₹3,000. Entry to the monument is Free for an Indian visitor and Free for a foreign one, paid separately at the gate. It opens at 24 hours and is open every day.
Guide · half day
₹900
Guide · full day
₹1,500
Entry — Indian
Free
Time needed
1 hour
The short answer
Do you need a guide at India Gate?
Do you need a guide at India Gate?
No. India Gate is a war memorial on a ceremonial axis, free to approach, open at all hours, and it takes about an hour of which fifty minutes is walking and looking. There is nothing here a guide needs to get you past and no ticket to decide about.
When it is worth it anyway
You are visiting India Gate on its own. Drive past it in the evening when it is lit, walk the lawns for half an hour, and spend the guide fee on Qutub Minar or Humayun’s Tomb instead. Where a guide earns it is the full Delhi day this sits at the end of.
At the gate
- Entry — Indian
- Free
- Entry — foreign
- Free
- Opens
- 24 hours
- Closed on
- Open all days
- Time needed
- 1 hour
Best in the evening, when the arch is lit and the lawns fill with people. No ticket at any hour.
Every figure above, on our full India Gate guideThe guide's part
What a guide actually does at India Gate
Four specific things, rather than "expert commentary". If none of them is worth ₹900 to you, do not book one.
Explains in five minutes what the memorial actually is — the names of some 13,000 Indian and British soldiers of the First World War and the Third Anglo-Afghan War, carved on the arch itself.
Points out what changed in 2022, when the Amar Jawan Jyoti flame was merged into the National War Memorial a few hundred metres away, because most material online still describes the old arrangement.
Sets it in the imperial plan — Lutyens, the 1911 transfer of the capital, and the axis running to Rashtrapati Bhavan — which is the only part that genuinely needs explaining.
What it costs
The guide fee, and the fee at the gate
Our guides are hired by the half or full day rather than per monument, so India Gate normally sits inside a Delhi day with one or two other sights. The entry ticket is separate and goes to the monument, not to us.
Half day
4 hours, 40 km included
₹900guide only
With a vehicle and driver
- Sedan (Swift Dzire / Honda Amaze) — 4 seats
- ₹2,400
- SUV (Ertiga / Innova) — 6–7 seats
- ₹3,100
- Innova Crysta — 7 seats
- ₹3,700
Guide ₹900 plus the published 4 hr / 40 km rental package. Monument entry tickets are paid at the gate and are not included.
Full day
8 hours, 80 km included
₹1,500guide only
With a vehicle and driver
- Sedan (Swift Dzire / Honda Amaze) — 4 seats
- ₹4,000
- SUV (Ertiga / Innova) — 6–7 seats
- ₹5,000
- Innova Crysta — 7 seats
- ₹6,000
Guide ₹1,500 plus the published 8 hr / 80 km rental package. Monument entry tickets are paid at the gate and are not included.
English rates shown. Hindi is lower; the seven foreign languages run ₹2,500 to ₹3,000 a day — the whole card is on the rate-card page. Entry at India Gate is Free for an Indian visitor and Free for a foreign one, paid at the gate.
On hiring a guide at the gate instead
Archaeological Survey of India monuments admit licensed guides and turn away unlicensed ones at the ticket gate. An unlicensed "guide" who approaches you outside the Taj Mahal or Amber Fort cannot accompany you inside, which is why the pitch is always made in the car park. We do not publish a rate for a guide hired at the gate because we do not set one — ask to see the licence card before you agree a price, and check that the photograph matches the person.
India Gate and nearby
What the visit looks like
Photographed at India Gate and the sights a Delhi day usually pairs it with.
Questions people ask
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Also worth reading
The rest of the guide line
Guide fees at other monuments
A guide in your own language, in Delhi
Everything else in Delhi
Book a Delhi day instead
India Gate does not need a guide on its own, but a Delhi half or full day does. Send your dates and we will put the right sights together around it, from ₹900.
We send the guide’s licence card before you pay anything. Nothing is charged to confirm.