Mehrangarh Fort
- Entry
- ₹100 · ₹600 foreign
- Hours
- 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM, last entry 4:30 PM
- Needs
- 2.5–3 hours
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Licensed tour guides · Jodhpur, Rajasthan
Hire a tour guide in Jodhpur
A licensed guide in Jodhpur is ₹1,500 for a full day of eight hours and ₹900 for a half day of four, in English — 10 languages are available, from ₹1,200 to ₹3,000 a day. This page carries all 4 of the city's main monuments with their entry fees and opening hours, a half-day and a full-day itinerary, and the licence basis you can check before you pay.
Full day · 8 hours
₹1,500
Half day · 4 hours
₹900
Languages
10 available
Monuments covered
4
Guiding in Jodhpur
What a guide is actually for in Jodhpur
Mehrangarh is the best-presented fort in Rajasthan and the only one where the museum is genuinely good, which changes what a guide is for: here the labels are reliable and the audio guide is well made, so the guide’s job moves outward — to the blue city below the walls, to Sardar Market, to why the houses are that colour, and to the Rathore history that the fort tells from the inside and the town tells from the outside.
Orientation. Mehrangarh sits on a rock a hundred and twenty metres above the old city, which spreads out below it in blue. Jaswant Thada is a few hundred metres along the same ridge. The clock tower and Sardar Market are in the middle of the old town; Umaid Bhawan is three kilometres south-east.
What it costs
Guide rates in Jodhpur
The fee below is for an English-speaking guide. The guide fee is set by language rather than by city, so the ten-language table underneath applies in Jodhpur exactly as it does in Delhi. The vehicle half of a bundled day is the site's published 4 hr / 40 km and 8 hr / 80 km rental package — every total here is two published rates added together.
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.
The half-day guide fee is 60% of the day rate, rounded up to the nearest ₹50. Monument entry is extra and listed by monument below.
All ten languages, in Jodhpur
| Language | Half day | Full day | Who it serves | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hindi हिन्दी | ₹750 | ₹1,200 | Domestic travellers from across India, and NRI families returning with relatives | Hindi in Jodhpur |
| English English | ₹900 | ₹1,500 | United Kingdom, United States, Australia, Canada, Ireland, Singapore, South Africa | English in Jodhpur |
| Russian Русский | ₹1,500 | ₹2,500 | Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Armenia | Russian in Jodhpur |
| French Français | ₹1,700 | ₹2,800 | France, Belgium, Switzerland, Québec, Morocco, Tunisia | French in Jodhpur |
| German Deutsch | ₹1,700 | ₹2,800 | Germany, Austria, German-speaking Switzerland, South Tyrol | German in Jodhpur |
| Italian Italiano | ₹1,700 | ₹2,800 | Italy, Italian-speaking Switzerland, San Marino | Italian in Jodhpur |
| Portuguese Português | ₹1,700 | ₹2,800 | Brazil, Portugal, Angola, Mozambique | Portuguese in Jodhpur |
| Spanish Español | ₹1,700 | ₹2,800 | Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Peru, United States (Hispanic travellers) | Spanish in Jodhpur |
| Japanese 日本語 | ₹1,800 | ₹3,000 | Japan — independent travellers and organised group tours | Japanese in Jodhpur |
| Mandarin 中文 | ₹1,800 | ₹3,000 | Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia | Mandarin in Jodhpur |
What you will see
Jodhpur's monuments, and what they cost at the gate
Every figure is taken from this site's own published guide to that monument, linked from each card and row. None of them closes for a weekly rest day.
Jodhpur monuments · 1 of 4
Mehrangarh Fort
- Entry — Indian
- ₹100
- Entry — foreign
- ₹600
- Hours
- 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM, last entry 4:30 PM
- Time needed
- 2.5–3 hours
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Mehrangarh Fort
Audio guide ₹250 in Hindi or English, ₹400 in other languages. The museum galleries are the best in Rajasthan.
Timings, fees and full guideJaswant Thada
- Hours
- 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
- Needs
- 30–45 minutes
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Jaswant Thada
The white marble cenotaph of Jaswant Singh II, a few hundred metres from the fort gate along the ridge
The blue city and Sardar Market
- Entry
- Free
- Hours
- Market from about 10:00 AM – Late evening
- Needs
- 1.5–2 hours
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The blue city and Sardar Market
The clock tower, the spice and textile stalls, and the lanes of indigo-washed houses below the fort
Umaid Bhawan Palace museum
- Hours
- 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
- Needs
- 1 hour
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Umaid Bhawan Palace museum
Part palace, part museum, part hotel. The museum wing is open to visitors; the rest is not.
| Monument | Entry — Indian | Entry — foreign | Hours | Closed | Time needed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mehrangarh Fort | ₹100 | ₹600 | 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM, last entry 4:30 PM | Open all days | 2.5–3 hours |
| Jaswant Thada | Not published | Not published | 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM | Open all days | 30–45 minutes |
| The blue city and Sardar Market | Free | Free | Market from about 10:00 AM – Late evening | Open all days | 1.5–2 hours |
| Umaid Bhawan Palace museum | Not published | Not published | 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM | Open all days | 1 hour |
2 of 4 carry a published entry fee. Where one is not shown it is because this site holds no verified figure for it, and a gap is better than an unchecked number.
The shape of the day
A half day and a full day in Jodhpur
Both plans are written against this city's own monument opening hours, which is why the start times are what they are.
Half day · ₹900 guide
Mehrangarh and Jaswant Thada
- 08:30
Hotel pickup
The old-city hotels are a steep ten minutes below the fort gate; the car takes the ramp road.
- 09:00
Mehrangarh Fort, at opening
Two and a half hours. The seven gates and the cannonball scars on them, the Phool Mahal and Moti Mahal, the palanquin and armoury galleries, and the ramparts with the blue city laid out below.
- 11:45
Jaswant Thada
Along the ridge. Marble thin enough to glow when the sun is behind it, and quiet after the fort.
- 12:30
Drop
The 4 hr / 40 km package covers the morning.
Full day · ₹1,500 guide
The fort, the blue city and the bazaar
- 08:30
Hotel pickup
Mehrangarh opens at 09:00 and is best in the first two hours.
- 09:00
Mehrangarh Fort
Three hours with the museum galleries, which here are worth the time rather than a detour.
- 12:00
Jaswant Thada
Forty-five minutes along the ridge.
- 13:00
Lunch in the old city
A rooftop under the fort wall, or mirchi bada and pyaaz kachori at the clock tower. Paid separately.
- 14:30
The blue city on foot
Down into the Brahmpuri lanes with the guide — why the houses are indigo, who painted them and when, and the stepwell at Toorji ka Jhalra that the town has just finished restoring.
- 16:00
Sardar Market and the clock tower
Spices, textiles, and the bangle lanes. A guide is useful here for the same reason as in Jaipur: the commission chain is long and you are the end of it.
- 17:30
Umaid Bhawan museum, or the fort ramparts at sunset
The palace museum if the group wants the twentieth-century end of the story; the ramparts if they want the view.
- 18:30
Drop at hotel
The 8 hr / 80 km package covers the day as laid out.
The fare, stated plainly
What is in the price and what is not
What the fare covers
- A Ministry-of-Tourism licensed Regional Level Guide for the Rajasthan
- The guide’s licence card photographed and sent on WhatsApp at confirmation, before anything is paid
- An AC vehicle with a driver on the published rental package, if you take the bundled rate
- Driver waiting at every stop for the full package duration — no re-booking between sights
- Fuel, tolls within the package distance, parking at the monuments, and the driver’s allowance
- Ticket-counter help: which tier to buy, which gate to use, and which queue is the short one
What it does not
- Monument entry tickets, paid at the gate — the Jodhpur figures are in the table on this page
- Meals, shopping and any optional activity during the day
- Distance beyond the package’s included kilometres, at the published per-km rate
- Guide and driver gratuity, customary but never compulsory
- Monument camera or video charges where the monument levies them
Ministry of Tourism, Government of India
Regional Level Guide (RLG)
- Language examined in
- Ten languages
- Licensing region
- Rajasthan
- Full day · 8 hours
- ₹1,500
- Half day · 4 hours
- ₹900
Every licence card carries a photograph, a licence number, the issuing region and the languages the holder is examined in. We send a photograph of the card on WhatsApp when a booking is confirmed, before you pay anything, so you can check the number, the region and the language against the guide who meets you.
The credential
What a government guide licence is, and how to check one
A Regional Level Guide licence is issued by the Ministry of Tourism after a written examination, an interview and a training course run through the Indian Institute of Tourism and Travel Management. It is issued for a tourism region, not for the whole country, and it names the foreign languages the holder is examined in.
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.
In Jodhpur: Rajasthan — the state issues its own regional guide licences
Questions people ask
Guides in Jodhpur
FAQs
It is the best audio guide in Rajasthan — ₹250 in Hindi or English and ₹400 in other languages, and genuinely well made. If your interest is the fort alone, it will serve. What it cannot do is take you down into the blue city afterwards, explain the indigo, get you through Sardar Market without being steered into three shops, or answer a question. Several travellers book a guide for the half day below the fort and take the audio guide inside it, which is a sensible combination and we will quote it that way if you ask.
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