India
4 ranked
hotels in New Delhi
6 MICHELIN Keys · 0 Forbes Five Star · 0 World's 50 Best placings
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Lutyens bungalows, Mughal tombs and four palace-scale hotels
New Delhi has 4 hotels ranked in the finehotels.world index. The Leela Palace New Delhi leads on prestige score at 6.12 out of 10, followed by The Imperial New Delhi and Taj Mahal, New Delhi. Of those, 4 hold MICHELIN Keys, 1 are rated by La Liste.
New Delhi's luxury hotels sit in the low-rise, tree-lined districts laid out under the British and around the Lodhi tombs. Four ranked properties all hold MICHELIN Keys, two of them at two Keys, and one restaurant appears on La Liste. The Imperial New Delhi has occupied its Janpath address since 1936, its corridors hung with a substantial collection of colonial-era prints and lithographs.
The others are built on the same generous scale. The Leela Palace New Delhi stands in the Diplomatic Enclave at Chanakyapuri in a Lutyens-influenced idiom, Taj Mahal, New Delhi sits on Mansingh Road minutes from India Gate, and The Lodhi spreads low pavilions with private pools beside the Lodhi Gardens and Humayun's Tomb.
| Hotel | Prestige | Distinctions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Leela Palace New Delhi2 Keys · La Liste · 260 rooms | 6.12 | 2 MICHELIN Keys; La Liste 98.0 |
| 2 | The Imperial New Delhi2 Keys · 235 rooms | 5.99 | 2 MICHELIN Keys |
| 3 | Taj Mahal, New Delhi1 Key · 296 rooms | 5.20 | 1 MICHELIN Key |
| 4 | The Lodhi1 Key · 31 rooms | 5.20 | 1 MICHELIN Key |
Prestige score is shown out of 10. Sources: MICHELIN Guide hotel selection, Forbes Travel Guide 2026 Star Awards, The World’s 50 Best Hotels 2023 to 2025, La Liste Top 1000 Hotels.
Lutyens' Delhi, covering Janpath, Mansingh Road and the streets radiating from India Gate, holds most of the list and the shortest routes to the museums and government quarter; Chanakyapuri, the Diplomatic Enclave, offers embassy gardens and space; Aerocity near the airport serves transit stays, and Old Delhi around Chandni Chowk is for the day rather than the night.
October to March is the season, cool and dry, with Diwali and the winter wedding weeks the busiest and a risk of heavy smog and fog in December and January; April to June brings severe heat and the July to September monsoon follows, both of them quiet.
By prestige score, the three highest ranked hotels in New Delhi are The Leela Palace New Delhi, The Imperial New Delhi, Taj Mahal, New Delhi. The score is a composite of MICHELIN Keys, Forbes Travel Guide Five Star ratings, placements in The World's 50 Best Hotels for 2023, 2024 and 2025, and La Liste's hotel ratings. finehotels.world tracks 4 award holding hotels in New Delhi in total.
New Delhi has 4 hotels holding MICHELIN Keys in this index and 2 hold two Keys.
Each hotel is scored on a fixed formula built only from award facts, then shown on a scale of 5.00 to 10.00. MICHELIN Keys carry the most weight, a Forbes Travel Guide Five Star rating adds a flat six points, placements in The World's 50 Best Hotels for 2023, 2024 and 2025 are weighted equally, and a La Liste rating moves the total slightly. Nothing a hotel supplies about itself enters the score, and the full formula is published on the methodology page so any figure in the table can be reproduced from the awards beside it.
October to March is the season, cool and dry, with Diwali and the winter wedding weeks the busiest and a risk of heavy smog and fog in December and January; April to June brings severe heat and the July to September monsoon follows, both of them quiet.
Lutyens' Delhi, covering Janpath, Mansingh Road and the streets radiating from India Gate, holds most of the list and the shortest routes to the museums and government quarter; Chanakyapuri, the Diplomatic Enclave, offers embassy gardens and space; Aerocity near the airport serves transit stays, and Old Delhi around Chandni Chowk is for the day rather than the night.