Diesel Rate in Madurai Today: ₹100.34 per Ltr
Diesel in Madurai is ₹100.34 per Ltr today, unchanged from yesterday. That places Madurai against a Tamil Nadu range of ₹99.55 to ₹100.45. With estimated daily demand of about 300 kl/day, the city moves roughly ₹3.01 crore of diesel a day at this rate.
Diesel price in Madurai today
Diesel is priced at ₹100.34 per Ltr in Madurai today. The rate is unchanged from yesterday's ₹100.34, so there has been no movement to pass on to customers today.
Madurai sits in Tamil Nadu, and the rate you pay at the pump is the rate for Madurai — 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 Madurai's diesel rate sits in India
Of the 103 cities we track for diesel, 77 quote less than Madurai. The cheapest is Port Blair at ₹84.56 per Ltr — ₹15.78 below Madurai — and the costliest is Nellore at ₹105.73, ₹5.39 above it.
See the full diesel rate list at all 103 cities we track.
How Madurai compares with India's largest cities
Against the 14 largest cities we track, Madurai's ₹100.34 per Ltr is ₹10.87 above Chandigarh (₹89.47), the cheapest of them, and ₹3.89 below Hyderabad (₹104.23), the dearest.
Petrol against diesel in Madurai today
Diesel in Madurai is ₹100.34 per litre against petrol's ₹108.50 — a gap of ₹8.16, or 7.5 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 5 cities we track in Tamil Nadu, that gap runs from ₹8.15 in Tiruchirappalli to ₹8.21 in Chennai.
Madurai's diesel neighbours in Tamil Nadu
In Tamil Nadu, 2 of the 5 cities we track quote less than Madurai for diesel.
The nearest cheaper is Tiruchirappalli, at ₹100.06 — ₹0.28 below Madurai. The nearest costlier is Salem, at ₹100.43 — ₹0.09 above.
Diesel rate in Madurai over the last 1 day
Our record for Madurai currently holds a single day: ₹100.34 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 Madurai and grows by one row every night — it is a record of what was actually published, not a reconstructed series.
Diesel rate across Tamil Nadu: where Madurai stands
Within Tamil Nadu, diesel ranges from ₹99.55 per Ltr in Chennai to ₹100.45 in Coimbatore — a spread of ₹0.90, or 0.9 per cent. At ₹100.34, Madurai 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 Tamil Nadu from another.
Madurai at a glance
Madurai has a population of roughly 17,00,000 and about 9,00,000 registered vehicles, based on our most recent estimate (as of 31 Mar 2024). These are planning estimates rather than a census count, and they are published here so you can judge what the rest of this page means in context.
A city of that size consumes fuel at a scale that a per-litre price hides completely. Multiply any pump price by the number of vehicles on the road and a one-rupee revision stops looking like a rounding error.
How much Madurai spends on diesel in a day
Our working estimate for fuel demand in Madurai is around 300 kl/day, again an estimate rather than a metered figure. At today's diesel price of ₹100.34 per Ltr, that demand represents roughly ₹3.01 crore of fuel changing hands in the city every single day.
The arithmetic behind that number is deliberately simple — litres multiplied by the price — and we spell it out so you can substitute your own figure if you have better local data. What it shows is why a small-looking revision matters so much at city scale.