Local businesses in Vadodara
Listed in OpenStreetMap within 3.5 km of the city centre.
- Restaurants and cafes: 54
- MTH Sky Dine Café; Dairy Den; Kalyan; Chatkazz Vadapav; Oven Magick; 22nd Parallel; Canara Coffee House; MotaBhai Cholebhature; Rajdeep Khaman House; Coco Chai
- Hotels and lodges: 9
- Hampton by Hilton Vadodara-Alkapuri; Indian Railways NAIR Hostel; National Rail and Transportation Institute; Pahune Hostel; Sri Krishna; The Fern - An Ecotel Hotel; MSUniversity; Mine; Sunrise
- Clothing shops: 7
- Marks And Spencers; Palav shree ani Madayali ; Sachin Tailor; Rare Rabbit; Max Fashion; Westside
- Jewellers: 1
- Ashray Jewellers (Panvadwala)
- Clinics: 54
- Aashray Uro-Andrology Clinic; Aditya Oral And Maxillofacial Clinic; Arin Multi Speciality Clinic; Ashutosh Clinic; Aum Advanced Orthopaedic Clinic; Aum Medical Nursing Home; Baroda Children Eye Care And Squint Clinic; City Plaza Eye Clinic; Darsh Orthodontic Clinic; Dr. Dandekar Eye Clinic And Surgery Centre
- Electronics and mobile shops: 2
- Vodafone Store; Vivo
Vadodara facts
- District
- Vadodara district
- Population, 2011 Census
- 20,65,771
- Area
- about 235 sq km, about 129 m above sea level
- PIN codes
- 382355 (Vadodara), 390001 (Vadodara), 362255 (Vadodara Dodia), 362275 (Vadodarazala)
- Places nearby
- Sursagar Lake (lake, 1 km), Khanderao Market (building, 1 km), Maharaja Fateh Singh Museum (museum, 1 km), Lakshmi Vilas Palace (palace, 1 km)
- Getting there
- Vadodara lies on the main rail and road routes linking Mumbai with Delhi and Ahmedabad.
- History
- The city was once called Chandanavati after Raja Chandan, and later Vadpatraka. Vadodara is said to come from the Sanskrit vatodara, in the belly of the banyan tree.
- Education
- Vadodara's institutions attract international students, especially from African countries such as Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, South Africa and Kenya.
Sources: Census of India 2011, Wikipedia, Wikidata, India Post and OpenStreetMap. Last checked 14 October 2026.