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

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.
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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.
- 01Lotus 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 - 02Jamia 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 - 03Indraprastha 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 - 04Kalka 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 - 05Agra 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 - 06Islamic 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 - 07Kalindi 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 - 08Rashtriya 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 - 09Okhla 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 - 10Aartha 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
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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 → Okhla39 km · quickest by road, 1h 11m · ₹325–405
- Hisar → Okhla164 km · quickest by road, 3h 10m · ₹1,200–1,500
- Chandigarh → Okhla161 km · quickest by road, 5h 35m · ₹1,830–2,290
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
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.
- 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.
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Next door to Okhla
Okhla is 9 km from New Delhi, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Noidacity in Uttar Pradesh, India3.6 km
- Chilla Saroda Bangarhuman settlement in India3.7 km
- South East Delhi districtdistrict in Delhi, India3.8 km
- Nehru Placeneighbourhood in Delhi, India3.8 km
- Shaheen Baghneighbourhood in Delhi, India2.2 km
- Sarai Kale Khanvillage in Indian state of Delhi3.7 km