Weekend Getaways from Agra by Car

Distance one way

60 km

Driving time

1-1.5 hours

Sedan, return

₹5,940

SUV, return

₹7,560

The Krishna birthplace complex at Mathura and, eleven kilometres on, Vrindavan's dense cluster of temples — Banke Bihari, the Prem Mandir, ISKCON. The Yamuna ghats at Vishram Ghat take an evening aarti that most day visitors miss entirely.

Distance one way

55 km

Driving time

1 hour

Sedan, return

₹5,940

SUV, return

₹7,560

Keoladeo Ghana, a former royal duck shoot turned bird sanctuary, where the winter count runs past 350 species. Cycle rickshaw drivers inside double as spotters and are genuinely good at it. Deeg Palace with its monsoon fountains sits 32 km further on.

Distance one way

120 km

Driving time

2-2.5 hours

Sedan, return

₹5,940

SUV, return

₹7,560

A hill fort that Babur called the pearl among Indian fortresses, with the Man Singh palace and the Teli ka Mandir inside it, and the Jai Vilas palace below with its thirty-five-foot chandeliers. The Sas Bahu temples look over the valley.

Distance one way

235 km

Driving time

4 hours

Sedan, return

₹5,940

SUV, return

₹7,560

Cenotaphs along the Betwa, the Jahangir Mahal and the Chaturbhuj temple rising out of a village of a few thousand people. One of the few medieval sites in North India where you can still have the place largely to yourself on a weekday morning.

Distance one way

240 km

Driving time

4-4.5 hours

Sedan, return

₹5,940

SUV, return

₹7,560

Amber Fort, the City Palace, Hawa Mahal and Jantar Mantar, plus the stepwell at Panna Meena and the Nahargarh ramparts for the evening view over the city.

Distance one way

250 km

Driving time

4.5 hours

Sedan, return

₹5,940

SUV, return

₹7,560

The tiger reserve around a tenth-century fort, where the ruins inside the park are part of the safari rather than a separate visit. Padam Talao with the old hunting lodge above it is the picture most people come for.

Distance one way

390 km

Driving time

6.5-7 hours

Sedan, return

₹7,722

SUV, return

₹9,828

The western group of temples, with the Kandariya Mahadeva at its centre, and the quieter eastern and southern groups that most visitors skip. The carving is the finest surviving work of its kind anywhere.

Distance one way

230 km

Driving time

3.5 hours

Sedan, return

₹5,940

SUV, return

₹7,560

Humayun's Tomb, the Qutb complex, Lodhi Gardens and Old Delhi around the Jama Masjid, plus whatever is on at the museums and the Kingdom of Dreams end of Gurgaon.

Distance one way

70 km

Driving time

1.5 hours

Sedan, return

₹5,940

SUV, return

₹7,560

The Chambal ravines, where boat trips from the National Chambal Sanctuary find gharial, marsh crocodile and Ganges river dolphin, and Bateshwar's line of 101 Shiva temples along the Yamuna, which almost nobody visits.