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Okhla

Okhla is an urban neighbourhood located by the Okhla barrage in South East Delhi, near the border between Delhi and Uttar Pradesh.

Okhla
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The place

Okhla is an urban neighbourhood located by the Okhla barrage in South East Delhi, near the border between Delhi and Uttar Pradesh. Okhla has lent its name to the nearby township of New Okhla Industrial Development Authority or Noida. Okhla is an assembly constituency.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Okhla

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Lotus Temple

    The Lotus Temple, also known as the Baháʼí House of Worship, New Delhi, is a Baháʼí House of Worship at Bahapur in south Delhi, India. Designed by the architect Fariborz Sahba, it takes the form of a half-open lotus of 27 free-standing marble-clad concrete petals, arranged in three rings of nine around a central hall.

    2.8 km · Bahá'í House of Worship in Delhi, India · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Jamia Millia Islamia

    Jamia Millia Islamia is a public research university located in Delhi, India. Originally established at Aligarh, United Provinces during the British Raj in 1920, it moved to its current location in New Delhi, Okhla in 1935.

    500 m · public central university in New Delhi · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi

    The Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi is a state university located in Delhi, India. IIIT Delhi offers B.Tech., M.Tech.

    2.7 km · state public university in South, Delhi, India · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Kalka Mandir

    Kalkaji Mandir is a Hindu temple dedicated to Kali, a Hindu goddess. It is in southern Delhi, in Kalkaji, a place whose name derives from the temple.

    2.9 km · temple in Delhi, India · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Agra Canal

    The Agra Canal is an important Indian irrigation work which starts from Okhla in Delhi. The Agra canal originates at the Okhla barrage, downstream of Nizamuddin bridge.

    1.6 km · canal in India, geonames ID = 1279258 · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Islamic Fiqh Academy, India

    Islamic Fiqh Academy of India is a Deobandi fiqh organization. It was established in 1988 in New Delhi under the guidance of Mujahidul Islam Qasmi.

    300 m · institute for the study and interpretation of Islamic Jurisprudence · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Kalindi Kunj

    Kalindi Kunj is a public garden and a famous T point road in Delhi, located on the banks of River Yamuna, close to Okhla barrage. Atlantic Water World, an amusement park incorporating a water park, is located there.

    3.4 km · park · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Rashtriya Dalit Prerna Sthal and Green Garden

    The Rashtriya Dalit Prerna Sthal and Green Garden is a memorial in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was commissioned by former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Mayawati and inaugurated on 14 October 2011.

    2.8 km · monument and museum in Uttar Pradesh, India · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Okhla barrage

    The Okhla barrage is a 791 meters or roughly 800-yard long weir across Yamuna River opened in 1874. It also serves as the location of Okhla Bird Sanctuary today.

    1.9 km · dam in Okhla in Delhi · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Aartha Kunj

    Aastha Kunj is a 200-acre park in southeast New Delhi, India. It lies between the Lotus Temple, ISKCON Temple, Nehru Place.

    3.8 km · park in India · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Okhla

Airports
Indira Gandhi (DEL), 18 km · Noida (DXN), 54 km · Maharaja Agrasen (HSS), 165 km
Stations
Hazrat Nizamuddin railway station, 3.7 km · Noida Sector 15 metro station, 3.4 km · Mayur Vihar Extension metro station, 3.3 km · New Ashok Nagar metro station, 3.1 km · Noida Sector 16 metro station, 3.6 km
  • Gautam Buddha Nagar → Okhla
    39 km · quickest by road, 1h 11m · ₹325–405
  • Hisar → Okhla
    164 km · quickest by road, 3h 10m · ₹1,200–1,500
  • Chandigarh → Okhla
    161 km · quickest by road, 5h 35m · ₹1,830–2,290
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Okhla

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Okhla. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundTaxi, auto-rickshaws and cycle rickshaws are available for short-distance transport.

From Wikivoyage: Noida, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    ChitkulIN

    7 ways of moving, 20 sources

    329 km
  2. 02
    MunsiyariIN

    8 ways of moving, 25 sources

    332 km
  3. 03
    Tirthan ValleyIN

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    342 km
  4. 04
    KazaIN

    7 ways of moving, 18 sources

    414 km
  5. 05
    LehIN

    8 ways of moving, 25 sources

    623 km

If you know how people move in Okhla – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Okhla

Okhla is 9 km from New Delhi, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.