Diesel Rate in Dhanbad Today: ₹100.86 per Ltr
Diesel in Dhanbad is ₹100.86 per Ltr today, unchanged from yesterday. That places Dhanbad against a Jharkhand range of ₹100.48 to ₹101.31.
Diesel price in Dhanbad today
Diesel is priced at ₹100.86 per Ltr in Dhanbad today. The rate is unchanged from yesterday's ₹100.86, so there has been no movement to pass on to customers today.
Dhanbad sits in Jharkhand, and the rate you pay at the pump is the rate for Dhanbad — fuel prices in India are set city by city, not district by district, so every pump inside the city limits charges the same figure on the same day.
Where Dhanbad's diesel rate sits in India
Of the 103 cities we track for diesel, 82 quote less than Dhanbad. The cheapest is Port Blair at ₹84.56 per Ltr — ₹16.30 below Dhanbad — and the costliest is Nellore at ₹105.73, ₹4.87 above it.
See the full diesel rate list at all 103 cities we track.
How Dhanbad compares with India's largest cities
Against the 14 largest cities we track, Dhanbad's ₹100.86 per Ltr is ₹11.39 above Chandigarh (₹89.47), the cheapest of them, and ₹3.37 below Hyderabad (₹104.23), the dearest.
Petrol against diesel in Dhanbad today
Diesel in Dhanbad is ₹100.86 per litre against petrol's ₹105.66 — a gap of ₹4.80, or 4.5 per cent. That difference is what a diesel engine returns on every litre, before the higher purchase price of the vehicle is counted. Across the 3 cities we track in Jharkhand, that gap runs from ₹4.80 in Dhanbad to ₹4.88 in Ranchi.
Dhanbad's diesel neighbours in Jharkhand
In Jharkhand, 1 of the 3 cities we track quote less than Dhanbad for diesel.
The nearest cheaper is Jamshedpur, at ₹100.48 — ₹0.38 below Dhanbad. The nearest costlier is Ranchi, at ₹101.31 — ₹0.45 above.
Diesel rate in Dhanbad over the last 1 day
Our record for Dhanbad currently holds a single day: ₹100.86 per Ltr on 17 Oct 2026. A range and a trend need at least two days, so this section fills in as the daily record grows.
This table is built from our own daily record rather than from a third-party feed. That means it starts on the day we began tracking Dhanbad and grows by one row every night — it is a record of what was actually published, not a reconstructed series.
Diesel rate across Jharkhand: where Dhanbad stands
Within Jharkhand, diesel ranges from ₹100.48 per Ltr in Jamshedpur to ₹101.31 in Ranchi — a spread of ₹0.83, or 0.8 per cent. At ₹100.86, Dhanbad sits somewhere in the middle of that range.
A gap of that size is almost always tax rather than transport. Central excise duty is uniform nationwide, but state VAT and local levies are not, and that is what separates one city in Jharkhand from another.