Local businesses in Surat
Listed in OpenStreetMap within 3.5 km of the city centre.
- Restaurants and cafes: 33
- The Coffee Time; The Waffle House; Pizza Da Dhaba; Gokulam Dairy; Jagdish Baldaniya's Home; iDot Cafe; Mahalaxmi Juice And Fast Food Corner; Belgian Waffles; Dairy Corner & Fast Food; Sumul's MasterChef, Multicuisine Restaurant And Banquet
- Hotels and lodges: 7
- Hilton Garden Inn Surat City Centre; Hotel Sifat International; Nidhivan Palace; Ginger Surat (City Center); Hotel Sarita; Yadgar Hotel; Hotel Welcome
- Clothing shops: 4
- Onyx For men; varachha; OOZY YOUR FAMILY DRESS CODE; Dressify
- Jewellers: 2
- Sahaj Jewels; Shree Dhanlakshmi Jewellers
- Salons and beauty shops: 3
- Tasmay Hair Studio; The Hair Town; The Hair & Beauty
- Clinics: 79
- Aastha Homeopathy Skin Care Clinic; Akshar Homeo Clinic; Allure Laser Centre; Ami Sagar Polyclinic; Arogyam Clinic; Astha Clinic & Skin Care; Baby Beats Heart Centre; Baidynath Clinic; Bapa Sitaram Clinic, Skin and Hair Care; Bhimani Clinic
- Electronics and mobile shops: 1
- Mahavir Mobile
Surat facts
- Population, 2011 Census
- 44,67,797
- Area
- about 327 sq km, about 13 m above sea level
- PIN codes
- 395003 (Surat RS), 395002 (Surat Textile Market)
- Places nearby
- Saraswati Mandir (writer's house museum, historic site, 2 km), Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Indoor Stadium (Indoor stadium, 5 km), Cable Bridge (Surat (bridge, 5 km), CB Patel International Cricket Stadium (cricket stadium, 8 km)
- Culture and food
- Surat is known for its food and street food, with a Gujarati saying that you should eat in Surat. Local dishes include locho, ghari, undhiyu, ponk, dhokla and khaman.
- Getting there
- Surat railway station was built in 1860 and is under the Western Railway zone.
- History
- By tradition Surat was built around 1500 by a wealthy Hindu merchant called Gopi, who named it Suraj, the city of the sun.
Sources: Census of India 2011, Wikipedia, Wikidata, India Post and OpenStreetMap. Last checked 14 October 2026.