Diesel Rate in Salem Today: ₹100.43 per Ltr
Diesel in Salem is ₹100.43 per Ltr today, unchanged from yesterday. That places Salem against a Tamil Nadu range of ₹99.55 to ₹100.45.
Diesel price in Salem today
Diesel is priced at ₹100.43 per Ltr in Salem today. The rate is unchanged from yesterday's ₹100.43, so there has been no movement to pass on to customers today.
Salem sits in Tamil Nadu, and the rate you pay at the pump is the rate for Salem — 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 Salem's diesel rate sits in India
Of the 103 cities we track for diesel, 78 quote less than Salem. The cheapest is Port Blair at ₹84.56 per Ltr — ₹15.87 below Salem — and the costliest is Nellore at ₹105.73, ₹5.30 above it.
See the full diesel rate list at all 103 cities we track.
How Salem compares with India's largest cities
Against the 14 largest cities we track, Salem's ₹100.43 per Ltr is ₹10.96 above Chandigarh (₹89.47), the cheapest of them, and ₹3.80 below Hyderabad (₹104.23), the dearest.
Petrol against diesel in Salem today
Diesel in Salem is ₹100.43 per litre against petrol's ₹108.60 — a gap of ₹8.17, 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.
Salem's diesel neighbours in Tamil Nadu
In Tamil Nadu, 3 of the 5 cities we track quote less than Salem for diesel.
The nearest cheaper is Madurai, at ₹100.34 — ₹0.09 below Salem. The nearest costlier is Coimbatore, at ₹100.45 — ₹0.02 above.
Diesel rate in Salem over the last 1 day
Our record for Salem currently holds a single day: ₹100.43 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 Salem 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 Salem 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 ₹100.43, Salem 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.