PNG Rate in Chennai Today: ₹52.00 per SCM
PNG in Chennai is ₹52.00 per SCM today, unchanged from yesterday. That places Chennai against a Tamil Nadu range of ₹46.19 to ₹49.43. With estimated daily demand of about 1,600 kl/day, the city moves roughly ₹8.32 crore of PNG a day at this rate.
PNG price in Chennai today
PNG is priced at ₹52.00 per SCM in Chennai today. The rate is unchanged from yesterday's ₹52.00, so there has been no movement to pass on to customers today.
Chennai sits in Tamil Nadu, and the rate you pay at the pump is the rate for Chennai — 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 Chennai's PNG rate sits in India
Of the 80 cities we track for PNG, 45 quote less than Chennai. The cheapest is Jalandhar at ₹42.00 per SCM — ₹10.00 below Chennai — and the costliest is Faridabad at ₹58.49, ₹6.49 above it.
See the full PNG rate list at all 80 cities we track.
How Chennai compares with India's largest cities
Against the 13 largest cities we track, Chennai's ₹52.00 per SCM is ₹5.50 above Bhopal (₹46.50), the cheapest of them, and ₹5.48 below Chandigarh (₹57.48), the dearest.
Chennai's PNG neighbours in Tamil Nadu
Chennai is the costliest of the 5 cities we track in Tamil Nadu for PNG.
The nearest cheaper is Tiruchirappalli, at ₹49.43 — ₹2.57 below Chennai.
PNG rate in Chennai over the last 1 day
Our record for Chennai currently holds a single day: ₹52.00 per SCM 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 Chennai and grows by one row every night — it is a record of what was actually published, not a reconstructed series.
PNG rate across Tamil Nadu: where Chennai stands
Within Tamil Nadu, PNG ranges from ₹46.19 per SCM in Salem to ₹49.43 in Tiruchirappalli — a spread of ₹3.24, or 6.2 per cent. At ₹52.00, Chennai sits at the top 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.
Chennai at a glance
Chennai has a population of roughly 80,00,000 and about 63,00,000 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 Chennai spends on PNG in a day
Our working estimate for fuel demand in Chennai is around 1,600 kl/day, again an estimate rather than a metered figure. At today's PNG price of ₹52.00 per SCM, that demand represents roughly ₹8.32 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.