Local businesses in Surat
Listed in OpenStreetMap within 3.5 km of the city centre.
- Restaurants and cafes: 33
- 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; Rail Ahar
- 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
- Perrian.com; Shree Sai Ganesh Yuvak Mandal-1976; Kantareshwar Mahadev Mandir; Manav Dharma Ashram; Kwaja Safar Sulemani Dargah; Mirza sami Mazjid; Musjid-e-; Rustambag Mandir; Shanidev Mandir; Vishal Hanuman Mandir
- 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
- Hospitals: 352
- New Civil Hospital; Adventist Wockhardt Heart Hospital; Arpan Public Charitable Trust; Atmadeep Eye Hospital; Aum Orthopaedic and Maternity Hospital; Chinmaya Hospital; Krupa Orthopaedic Hospital; Shivjoti Multispeciality Hopsital; Shree Sai Ashish Hospital; Vatsalya Children Hospital
- Schools: 9
- G. G. Zadafiya Vidhyalay; Saraswati Vidhyalaya; St. Xaviers School; Nagar Primary School No 60; Govt. School; Tapidas & Tulsidas Varajdas School; Vanita Vishram School
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)
- Getting there
- Surat railway station was built in 1860 and is under the Western Railway zone.
- 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.
- 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.