List of Tier 1 and Tier 2 Cities of India
Cities in India are divided as the Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 with Tier 1 being the most developed ones and Tier 3 being the developing ones.
Metropolitan cities come under the Tier 1 category. And, the cost of living in these cities are comparatively higher than the low tier cities.
Indian cities are also classified as X, Y, and Z which are other names for the Tier classification, which are:
Tier 1 – X
Tier 2 – Y
Tier 3 – Z
If you stay in the Top Tier Cities then, obviously, you will have to spend more money on the food, clothing, shelter, etc. than to stay in the lower-tier cities.
In this blog post, I will be providing the complete list of Tier 1 and Tier 2 cities of India.
So, here we go…

📢 Please note that all the cities in the list are taken from this Wikipedia page.
Tier 1 & Tier 2 Cities of India
First, tier 1 cities are listed, and then tier 2.
Tier 1 Cities
- Ahmedabad
- Bengaluru
- Chennai
- Delhi
- Hyderabad
- Kolkata
- Mumbai
- Pune
Tier 2 Cities
- Agra
- Ajmer
- Aligarh
- Amravati
- Amritsar
- Anand
- Asansol
- Aurangabad
- Bareilly
- Belagavi
- Bhavnagar
- Bhilai
- Bhiwandi
- Bhopal
- Bhubaneswar
- Bikaner
- Bilaspur
- Bokaro Steel City
- Chandigarh
- Coimbatore
- Cuttack
- Dehradun
- Dhanbad
- Durgapur
- Erode
- Faridabad
- Firozabad
- Ghaziabad
- Gorakhpur
- Guntur
- Gurugram
- Guwahati
- Gwalior
- Hamirpur
- Hubballi–Dharwad
- Indore
- Jabalpur
- Jaipur
- Jalandhar
- Jalgaon
- Jammu
- Jamnagar
- Jamshedpur
- Jhansi
- Jodhpur
- Kakinada
- Kalaburagi
- Kannur
- Kanpur
- Karnal
- Kochi
- Kolhapur
- Kollam
- Kozhikode
- Kurnool
- Lucknow
- Ludhiana
- Madurai
- Malappuram
- Mangaluru
- Mathura
- Meerut
- Moradabad
- Mysuru
- Nagpur
- Nanded
- Nashik
- Nellore
- Noida
- Patna
- Prayagraj
- Puducherry
- Purulia
- Raipur
- Rajamahendravaram
- Rajkot
- Ranchi
- Ratlam
- Rourkela
- Salem
- Sangli
- Shimla
- Siliguri
- Solapur
- Srinagar
- Surat
- Thanjavur
- Thiruvananthapuram
- Thrissur
- Tiruchirappalli
- Tirunelveli
- Tiruvannamalai
- Ujjain
- Vadodara
- Varanasi
- Vasai-Virar
- Vellore
- Vijayapura
- Vijayawada
- Visakhapatnam
- Warangal
And, the cities which are left, come under the Tier 3 category.
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