Petrol Rate in Kanpur Today: ₹101.78 per Ltr
Petrol in Kanpur is ₹101.78 per Ltr today, unchanged from yesterday. That places Kanpur against a Uttar Pradesh range of ₹101.66 to ₹102.23. With estimated daily demand of about 470 kl/day, the city moves roughly ₹4.78 crore of petrol a day at this rate.
Petrol price in Kanpur today
Petrol is priced at ₹101.78 per Ltr in Kanpur today. The rate is unchanged from yesterday's ₹101.78, so there has been no movement to pass on to customers today.
Kanpur sits in Uttar Pradesh, and the rate you pay at the pump is the rate for Kanpur — 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 Kanpur's petrol rate sits in India
Of the 103 cities we track for petrol, 11 quote less than Kanpur. The cheapest is Port Blair at ₹88.66 per Ltr — ₹13.12 below Kanpur — and the costliest is Nellore at ₹118.14, ₹16.36 above it.
See the full petrol rate list at all 103 cities we track.
How Kanpur compares with India's largest cities
Against the 14 largest cities we track, Kanpur's ₹101.78 per Ltr is ₹0.24 above Chandigarh (₹101.54), the cheapest of them, and ₹14.37 below Hyderabad (₹116.15), the dearest.
Petrol against diesel in Kanpur today
Diesel in Kanpur is ₹95.27 per litre against petrol's ₹101.78 — a gap of ₹6.51, or 6.4 per cent. That difference is what a diesel engine returns on every litre, before the higher purchase price of the vehicle is counted. Every city we track in Uttar Pradesh carries the same gap of ₹6.51.
Kanpur's petrol neighbours in Uttar Pradesh
In Uttar Pradesh, 1 of the 7 cities we track quote less than Kanpur for petrol.
The nearest cheaper is Agra, at ₹101.66 — ₹0.12 below Kanpur. The nearest costlier is Lucknow, at ₹101.86 — ₹0.08 above.
Petrol rate in Kanpur over the last 1 day
Our record for Kanpur currently holds a single day: ₹101.78 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 Kanpur and grows by one row every night — it is a record of what was actually published, not a reconstructed series.
Petrol rate across Uttar Pradesh: where Kanpur stands
Within Uttar Pradesh, petrol ranges from ₹101.66 per Ltr in Agra to ₹102.23 in Varanasi — a spread of ₹0.57, or 0.6 per cent. At ₹101.78, Kanpur 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 Uttar Pradesh from another.
Kanpur at a glance
Kanpur has a population of roughly 31,00,000 and about 14,00,000 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 Kanpur spends on petrol in a day
Our working estimate for fuel demand in Kanpur is around 470 kl/day, again an estimate rather than a metered figure. At today's petrol price of ₹101.78 per Ltr, that demand represents roughly ₹4.78 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.