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How safe is India for female travelers?
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based on 174 experiences from female travelers
Gandhinagar, Solo travel
very safe place, although at night there’s not a lot of girls around. except for GIFT city area. amazing food and culture, not many activities to do but ahmedabad is not that far away so you can go there for fun stuff
Posted: October 16, 2025Chennai, Family travel
The first thing I wanna say is , don't travel in summer. Book uber/ other apps for tuk-tuks , otherwise you're gonna get charged like 200-400 rs for a few kms. Travel in local trains ,that's gonna save a lot. On the beach watch out of photo scams. Rest is good. The architecture, nature, people and food are really good.
Posted: October 9, 2025Experienced: January, 2025
Albariña
Spain
Varanasi, Solo travel
I felt really safe. Just making friends is fine, but some Indian men know that Western women don't have issues with physical touching, and sometimes they take advantage of this cultural difference. Anyways, just chill and walk around the city—it's awesome.
Posted: September 29, 2025Experienced: August, 2025
Simin
Iran
India, Couple travel
We stayed in 5 star hotels which were above expectations! They were amazing, specially Leela ambiance in Delhi. We used uber for getting around, also subway and rikshas were amazing. Food in general was good, specially some restaurants in Muslim areas where they served meat. It was safe, except for driving! It felt like we're gonna crash every minute. I don't recommend going to famous souvenir shop, but old Bazar is a good place to buy souvenir. We stayed one week in total, 3 days in Delhi, 2 days Agra and 2 days Jaipur and I believe it was so little for such an amazing country
Posted: September 21, 2025Experienced: March, 2024
Nagwa
India
Varkala, Solo travel
Varkala is a beach town, close to many other towns like Aleppy, Kochi, Trivandrum. Quiet, peaceful and tranquil, I’d recommend it for anyone travelling solo in India for the first time. I stayed in hostels and went at the beginning of the season. So surf, accommodation and pricing was still relatively on the lower end. Definitely look up Barefoot Hostels there for the coziest, friendliest stay that is super clean and pocket-friendly!
Posted: September 1, 2025How safe is India for women?
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Based on 503 local experiences
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Based on 503 local experiences
Delhi
there are localities in south and central delhi that are very safe to throughout the day and night but anywhere else you should be a bit careful to be out after sunset. especially west and north delhi.
Posted: October 16, 2025Chennai
I don't have a bad experience I have been living alone for 2 years now and it's been great so I would like to travel in chennai and outside chennai and if I have any travel buddies I would feel more confident
Posted: October 16, 2025Mumbai
Mumbai is safer than a lot of Indian cities, I felt safe in a park at 03:00am as I kept waiting for the local to go back to my stay! I had a decent anda bhurji at 04:00am and took the first local I could find and that was it.
Posted: October 13, 2025
Kateryna
Jodhpur
Jodhpur was my second city I travelled to, and it seemed to me very safe. Local family gave me advice to get back to home till 10 p.m. so I basically never walked late at night. I also didn't use public transport, only uber bike and tuk tuk. In short I have never had a bad experience there
Posted: October 10, 2025
Shikha
Bangalore
I think Bangalore is one of the safest cities in India. There are only 2 cities which are safe enough for women, that's Bangalore and Mumbai. Here they treat women like a person, almost like an equal most of the time. They'll haggle the same, mostly look at you the same as they will behave with a man. I don't think you can wear whatever you want but people are pretty much into their own thing, no one stares so much if you dress provocatively. I feel the streets are safer than the pubs in these case, less number of creeps, more behaved cab drivers vs a Delhi/Gurgaon/Noida belt.
Posted: October 9, 2025Safety in India
