List of hill stations in India


s are high-altitude towns for recreation, enjoyment and used as a place of refuge to escape the blistering heat in India during summertime. As India is a vast country with limited amounts of the coastal area most of its towns and districts face continental type of climate with summer being very hot so hill stations becomes a spot to escape such hot and humid conditions.
The Indian subcontinent has seven principal mountain ranges and the largest of all is the Himalayas that lies in the northern part of India. The famous peaks and ranges include the Kangchenjunga range in the Eastern Himalayas which frames the hill stations of Darjeeling and Gangtok. The Shivalik range also has some famous hill stations that includes Kasauli, Mussoorie and many more.
Most hill stations in India were developed by the British around a central mall to get respite from the oppressive summer heat. Many have picturesque lakes as their focal point, making them excellent places for boating activities.
Most hill stations in India are located in the states of Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Manipur, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Nagaland and Meghalaya in the Himalayas and in the states of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Goa, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu in Western Ghats. Some are located in Eastern Ghats of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and West Bengal. Notable hill stations in India are listed below by state.
Since a number of these hill stations attract large numbers of tourists in summer as well as other times of the year, they are well connected by rail, road, and air services to major Indian cities.

History

was developed by Ganga Dynasty in 11th century. It was also used by Tipu Sultan as a summer retreat.
Hill stations in British India were established for a variety of reasons. After the revolt of 1857 the "British sought further distance from what they saw as a "disease-ridden" land by escape to the Himalayas in the north and Nilgiri Hills in the south", a pattern which started even before 1857. Other factors included anxieties about the dangers of life in India, among them "fear of degeneration brought on by too long residence in a debilitating land." The hill stations were meant to reproduce the home country, illustrated in Lord Lytton's statement about Ootacamund, in the 1870s, "such beautiful English rain, such delicious English mud." Shimla was officially made the "summer capital of India" in the 1860s and hill stations "served as vital centers of political and military power, especially after the 1857 revolt."
Dane Kennedy, following Monika Bührlein, identifies three stages in the evolution of hill stations in India: high refuge to hill station, and hill station to town. The first settlements started in the 1820s, primarily as sanitoria. In the 1840s and 1850s, there was a wave of new hill stations, with the main impetus being "places to rest and recuperate from the arduous life on the plains". In the second half of the 19th century, there was a period of consolidation with few new hill stations. In the final phase, "hill stations reached their zenith in the late nineteenth century. The political importance of the official stations was underscored by the inauguration of large and costly public-building projects."
Siddharth Pandey analyses the femininity often ascribed to Indian hills stations, in their nomenclature as well as the visual aesthetic of their landscapes. He argues that compared to the 'terrifying, sublime landscape' of the high Himalayan peaks and ridges, the hill stations have a gentler aspect, manageable and conducive for domestication. With ideas of domesticity having been traditionally associated with the feminine and household spheres, hill stations, which were developed by the colonialists as 'homes away from home', acquired over time a sense of being feminine, in terms of both their natural as well as their architectural beauty.

Andaman and Nicobar Islands

PlaceDistrict
Araku ValleyVisakhapatnam
ChintapalleVisakhapatnam
Horsley HillsChittoor
LambasingiVisakhapatnam
PaderuVisakhapatnam
Papi HillsEast Godavari and West Godavari
Sri SailamKurnool
TirumalaChittoor
GuntaseemaVishakapatnam
SalurVizianagaram
MaredumilliEast Godavari
MothugudemKhammam and East Godavari
ChinturEast Godavari
RajavommangiEast Godavari
DoranalaPrakasam
GiddalurPrakasam
DonkarayiEast Godavari
SileruVishakapatnam
RampachodavaramEast Godavari
Cumbum hillsPrakasam
NekkantiPrakasam
ChinthalaPrakasam
ArdhaveeduPrakasam
PeddarutlaPrakasam
KilladaSrikakulam
SeedhiSrikakulam
GuddamVizianagaram
KuneruVizianagaram
ChaparaiEast Godavari
PolluruEast Godavari
PamuleruEast Godavari
MusuruEast Godavari
GurteduEast Godavari
KamavaramWest Godavari
KoruteruWest Godavari
KoidaWest Godavari
TekuruWest Godavari
DoramamidiWest Godavari
DengamVishakapatnam
DarakondaVishakapatnam
PaderuVishakapatnam
PanasaVishakapatnam
PitakotaVishakapatnam
KudumuluVishakapatnam
PeddavalasaVishakapatnam
BasulaVishakapatnam
TulamVishakapatnam
BakuruVishakapatnam
BorraVishakapatnam
GauthamVishakapatnam
VayyaVishakapatnam
SundipentaKurnool
VanjangiAlluri Sitharama Raju

Arunachal Pradesh

PlaceDistrict
AlongWest Siang
BomdilaWest Kameng
KhonsaTirap
RoingLower Dibang Valley
TawangTawang
ZiroLower Subansiri

Assam

PlaceDistrict
HaflongDima Hasao
HamrenWest Karbi Anglong
JatingaDima Hasao
MaibangDima Hasao
UmrangsoDima Hasao

Bihar

PlaceDistrict
Gurpa HillsGaya, India
Rajgir hillsNalanda, India
Bateshwar hillsBhagalpur, India
Kaimur RangeRohtas, India
SimultalaJamui, India

Chhattisgarh

PlaceDistrict
Akash NagarDantewada
Amarkantak Lapha hillBilaspur
ChirmiriKoriya
MainpatSurguja

Goa

Gujarat

PlaceDistrict
AhwaDang
AwalaBanaskantha
BardipadaDang
DediyapadaNarmada
GarviDang
GirnarJunagadh
JunarajNarmada
KapasiyaBanaskantha
KarazaBanaskantha
KhobaValsad
KoshmalDang
MahalDang
NilosiValsad
PalitanaBhavnagar
SaputaraDang
SubirDang
SutharpadaValsad
Wilson HillsValsad

Haryana

PlaceDistrict
MorniPanchkula
DhoshiMahendragarh

Himachal Pradesh

Jammu and Kashmir

Kashmir regionJammu region
PlaceDistrictPlaceDistrict
AruAnantnagBhaderwahDoda
DoodhpathriBudgamLal DramanDoda
GulmargBaramullaPatnitopUdhampur
PahalgamAnantnagJantroon DharDoda
SonamargGanderbalLal DramanDoda
SrinagarSrinagarBhal PadriDoda
TosamaidanBudgamDevigolKishtwar
YusmargBudgamBimal NagKishtwar
BaniKathua

Jharkhand

Karnataka

PlaceDistrict
AgumbeShimoga
ArehalliHassan
ArkalgudHassan and Kodagu
Baba BudangiriChikkamagaluru
BallupetHassan
BelagoduHassan
BelurHassan
Biligiriranga HillsChamarajanagar
BisleHassan
ChangadihalliHassan
ChikkamagaluruChikmagalur
CharmadiDakshina Kannada and Chikkamagaluru
DandeliUttara Kannada
DevimaneUttara Kannada
ChikkabemmathiHassan
HulikalShimoga
JogShimoga
JogimattiChitradurga
JamalabadDakshina Kannada
KemmangundiChikkamagaluru
KodachadriShivamogga
KodlipetKodagu
KonanurHassan
KudrastheHassan
KudremukhChikkamagaluru
KumarahalliKodagu
KoppaChikkamagaluru
KushalnagarKodagu
MadhugiriMadhugiri
MadikeriKodagu
Male Mahadeshwara HillsChamarajanagara
MudigereChikkamagaluru
MullayanagiriChikkamagaluru
Nandi HillsChikkaballapur
PushpagiriDakshina Kannada, Hassan and Kodagu
SakleshpurHassan
ShanivarsantheKodagu
SirangalliKodagu
SirsiUttara Kannada
SomanahalliHassan and Kodagu
SomwarpetKodagu
SkandagiriChikkaballapura
VirajpetKodagu