Local businesses in Surat
Listed in OpenStreetMap within 3.5 km of the city centre.
- Restaurants and cafes: 33
- 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; Zest Restaurant
- 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
- Attractions and museums: 8
- SHREENIKETAN; Vasanjipark; ARISTRON INSTRUMENTION; Kabutar Circle; La Citadel; Surat City's First Firetruck from the 19th century
- Cinemas and theatres: 1
- Gandhi Smruti Hall
- Places of worship: 24
- Cremio1; Karuna Sagar Mandir; Masjid e Aarifiya (Maslak e Ahle Sunnat Wal Jama'at); Perrian.com; Shree Sai Ganesh Yuvak Mandal-1976; Kantareshwar Mahadev Mandir; Manav Dharma Ashram; Kwaja Safar Sulemani Dargah; Mirza sami Mazjid; Musjid-e-
- Parks and stadiums: 15
- Kitchen Garden; Katargam Sketing Rink; hasanji kabrestaan; Gopi Talav Park; Dabholi Lake; Javerchand Meghani park; Lake Center Park; chowpati; dutch garden; ghandi baug
- 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
- Bakeries and sweet shops: 1
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)
- History
- By tradition Surat was built around 1500 by a wealthy Hindu merchant called Gopi, who named it Suraj, the city of the sun.
- Local economy
- Surat is a major hub of diamond cutting and polishing, with the first diamond workshops in Gujarat appearing in Surat and Navsari in the late 1950s. It ranked ninth in India by GDP in 2016.
- Geography
- Surat is a port city on the Tapi river; the nearest port is now in the Magdalla and Hazira area.
Sources: Census of India 2011, Wikipedia, Wikidata, India Post and OpenStreetMap. Last checked 14 October 2026.