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Delhi to Puducherry

Compare trains, buses, flights and ferries from Delhi to Puducherry. From €144.69, fastest 8h 6m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.

Delhi to Puducherry runs about 1 times a day, with the first departure around 07:30 and the last around 07:30. One passenger pays €144.69, every fee included. The fastest door to door is 8h 6m over 1,939 km, on services run by 1 operator across 1 mode.

Checked September 23, 2026Priced for October 13, 2026One passenger, all fees included

What one seat costs

Every operator we hold on this corridor starts at €144.69, so there is no spread to show.

Typical fares · Priced for October 13, 2026

€144.69

  • 163%Moves across the booking window

When it runs, leaving Delhi

Typical first and last departure on this corridor.

  • 07:30First departure
  • 07:30Last departure
  • 1Services per day
  • 0%Run direct

Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €427.30Thu24
  2. about €417.86Fri25
  3. about €378.33Sat26
  4. about €299.86Sun27
  5. about €338.80Mon28
  6. about €310.48Tue29
  7. about €229.65Wed30
  8. about €332.31Thu1
  9. about €250.89Fri2
  10. about €305.17Sat3
  11. about €226.11Sun4
  12. about €217.85Mon5
  13. about €208.41Tue6
  14. about €190.12Wed7
  15. about €206.64Thu8
  16. about €229.65Fri9
  17. about €206.05Sat10
  18. about €234.37Sun11
  19. about €188.35Mon12
  20. about €144.69Tue13
  21. about €199.56Wed14

Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.

The flight gets you into Puducherry. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.

A hotel room

A room in Puducherry for the night the flight gets in

Sort by distance from Villianur railway station and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Delhi to Puducherry

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €217.2690 days
  2. €176.5560 days
  3. €162.3945 days
  4. €189.5330 days
  5. €199.5621 days
  6. €190.1214 days
  7. €229.657 days
  8. €378.333 days
  9. €427.301 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €162.39.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 163 percent. The most expensive point is €427.30, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 45 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
€427.30€162.39137142130456090

Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 45 days ahead. You are inside that window.

This corridor, specifically

Facts that apply to Delhi to Puducherry and to no other route on the site.

Clocks

Both ends keep the same time, so the arrival is the departure plus the journey.

The shape of it

1,939 km

1,878 km as the crow flies, 3% further by the route services take. The bearing runs south.

Who lives at each end

11,034,555657,209

Population at the departure city and at the arrival city, which is usually what decides how often anything runs.

The route

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The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.

Direct or connecting
0% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 100% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 1,939 km against 1,878 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Hyderabad. The gap between arriving and leaving is 99 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 10 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is ours to fix and you are rebooked at no charge.

The fare from PNY into Puducherry is set by whoever drives it.

A taxi stand outside an airport terminal

A car waiting when you land in Puducherry

Settled in advance, so the ride into Puducherry costs what it said it would rather than what the cab stand says.

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Who runs this route

The flight gets in hours before any room is ready. Holding a bag is not what we sell.

Left luggage lockers

Baggage storage near Villianur railway station

Most of the points near Villianur railway station open before the first train and close after the last one.

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Questions about Delhi to Puducherry

The questions people actually ask about this trip, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does it take to get from Delhi to Puducherry?

The fastest journey from Delhi to Puducherry takes 8h 6m door to door, of which 3h 23m is spent moving, on the flight. Most services take around 8h 16m, because that average includes slower stopping services and journeys with a connection. Times include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end.

How much does it cost to travel from Delhi to Puducherry?

The cheapest fare from Delhi to Puducherry is €144.69, as of September 23, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €229.65. Both figures are the total for one passenger, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so nothing is added at checkout.

What is the cheapest way to get from Delhi to Puducherry?

The cheapest way from Delhi to Puducherry is by flight, at €144.69 for one passenger on October 13, 2026. That journey takes 8h 12m door to door. Cheaper is rarely faster on this corridor, and the comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs against what it saves.

When should I book Delhi to Puducherry?

Fares from Delhi to Puducherry bottom out around 45 days before departure, at €162.39. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 163 percent, measured on September 23, 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.

Which day of the week is cheapest for Delhi to Puducherry?

Wednesday is the cheapest day to depart from Delhi to Puducherry, at €199.56. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of September 23, 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.

Which month is cheapest for Delhi to Puducherry?

December is the cheapest of the next 5 months to travel from Delhi to Puducherry, at €152.95 for one passenger. Each month is priced on its fifteenth, so the comparison is like for like rather than a mix of weekends and midweek departures.

Who runs service from Delhi to Puducherry?

1 operators sell services from Delhi to Puducherry across 1 mode: IndiGo Airlines. Journey times, fares and fare conditions differ between them, and the operator table on this page compares all of them on speed, flexibility and what is provided on board.

Is there a direct service from Delhi to Puducherry?

0 percent of the services we sell from Delhi to Puducherry are direct. The rest connect at Hyderabad, with about 99 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.

Which station or terminal do services from Delhi to Puducherry use?

Services from Delhi to Puducherry by flight leave from Indira Gandhi International Airport DEL and arrive at Pondicherry Airport PNY. Allow about 3h 10m in total for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one, which is already included in every door to door time on this page.

Can I change or refund a ticket from Delhi to Puducherry?

0 of the 1 operators we sell from Delhi to Puducherry allow a change or a refund. A change on a changeable fare costs €5.00. The operator table on this page names which is which, and the condition is shown again before you pay.

Where these numbers come from

Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.

Observed service A carrier record names this operator on this pair, carried through unchanged.

Prices come from the supplier wherever we hold a live quote. Elsewhere we show an indicative price built from the real distance, the real operator and a fare curve over lead time, day of the week and season. Those are labeled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon, Distances

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Delhi to Puducherry on September 23, 2026: 1939 km of route against 1878 km in a straight line, 1 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €144.69, and 8h 6m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

The flight is the simple part. What you do once you are in Puducherry is somebody else's catalog.

A guided tour group

Day trips out of Puducherry and across India

Day trips that leave Puducherry in the morning and cover a good part of India by evening.

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The two ends, compared

Delhi reaches 448 places in 65 countries on services we hold, over distances from 20 to 13,315 km. Puducherry reaches 50 places in 1 countries, from 37 to 1,878 km.

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Leaving Delhi

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  • 65Countries
  • 80Operators

Arriving in Puducherry

Leaving Puducherry

  • 50Places you can leave for
  • 1Countries
  • 3Operators

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