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Interactive Atlas · Delhi Metro · Namo Bharat

India's Best Metro System

A System That Matches The Existing Networks In Tokyo, London, And New York.

The map on the station wall evens out the spacing and bends every line to 45 degrees, because that is what makes a network readable on a poster. It also tells you nothing about where you actually are. So here is every station at its real coordinates, on the real map of Delhi.

By Tushar Gupta · PolityPolicy · India, In Numbers
All Lines
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Network and city geography: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
Corridors under construction: DMRC official KML.
The Network, Line By Line

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Measured Against The World

How Big Is It, Really?

Route Length, Metro Only
What The Network Actually Does

A Station Every 1.43 Kilometres.

1.43 kmFrom One Station To The Next DMRC’s 374.47 km divided by the 262 sections between adjacent stations. Shortest 550 m, Mandawali to East Vinod Nagar. Longest 6.35 km, Dhaula Kuan to Shivaji Stadium.
70.2 kmThe Longest Ride On The Delhi Metro Brigadier Hoshiyar Singh in Bahadurgarh to Raja Nahar Singh in Ballabhgarh — 52 stops, two changes, Green to Pink to Violet. Put it in the planner above and you get the same route.
83%Of Station Pairs, Two Changes Or Fewer Across all 37,950 pairs of the 276 metro stations on this map — every line except Namo Bharat, which is a separate railway on separate fares.
How Many People, Actually

The Busiest Day In Its History Was 8 August 2025.

81,87,674Journeys On That One Day
235.8 croreJourneys In 2025
64.6 lakhOn An Average Day, 2025
78,67,649The Record It Broke · 18 Nov 2024
Average Journeys A Day, By Financial Year
Busiest Stations, June 2026 — And It Is No Longer Rajiv Chowk
EVERY STATION ON THIS MAP SITS WHERE IT ACTUALLY IS.
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Sources & Method

What This Map Is