DMRC’s own website puts the network at about 416 km with 303 stations. Almost every other published figure is lower — 392 km, 389 km, 374 km, and station counts from 250 to 288.
They are not all wrong. They are counting different things, and the reasons are identifiable. This page gives the operator’s figure, sets out every line, and explains exactly why the totals you find elsewhere disagree.
One caveat on that headline number, in the spirit of the rest of this page: DMRC’s introduction page carries no visible date, so its figure could itself lag a recent opening. It is the highest and the most likely current, and it comes from the operator rather than a third party — treat it as the best available rather than as final.
The network has ten lines including the Airport Express, with an eleventh, the Golden Line, under construction. It reaches Noida, Ghaziabad, Gurugram, Faridabad, Bahadurgarh and Ballabhgarh.
Every Line, and What It Does
| Line | Route | Stations | Length | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pink (7) | Majlis Park – Shiv Vihar, circular with branch | 46 | 73.49 km | Line record |
| Blue (3/4) | Dwarka Sec 21 – Noida Electronic City / Vaishali | ~59 incl. branch | ~56.6 km | Aggregator |
| Magenta (8) | Two sections — see below | 33 | 50.18 km | Line record |
| Yellow (2) | Samaypur Badli – Millennium City Centre Gurugram | 37 | ~49 km | Aggregator |
| Violet (6) | Kashmere Gate – Raja Nahar Singh | 34 | 46.34 km | Line record |
| Red (1) | Rithala – Shaheed Sthal | ~29 | ~34.7 km | Aggregator |
| Green (5) | Inderlok / Kirti Nagar – Brigadier Hoshiyar Singh | 24 | 28.79 km | Line record |
| Airport Express (Orange) | New Delhi – IGI T3 – Dwarka Sec 21 | ~7 | ~23 km | Aggregator |
| Grey (9) | Dwarka – Dhansa Bus Stand | 4 | 5.19 km | Line record |
| Golden (10/11) | Under construction | — | — | — |
That source column is not decoration. This page argues that aggregator figures go stale, so it would be poor form to mix them silently with better-sourced ones. Rows marked Line record come from current per-line records that carry dated section tables. Rows marked Aggregator come from third-party summaries we could not corroborate against a line record — they are the best available, but they are exactly the class of figure this page tells you to treat carefully. Check them against DMRC before relying on them.
- Pink Line is India’s longest metro line and its first operational ring metro, running mostly alongside the Inner Ring Road. Of its 46 stations, 43 are on the circular main line and three on a branch from Maujpur-Babarpur to Shiv Vihar. It was extended in 2026, which matters for a reason covered in the next section.
- Blue Line is the busiest and carries the most stations. It splits at Yamuna Bank, with one arm running to Noida Electronic City and the other to Vaishali — worth checking the destination board rather than assuming.
- Magenta Line is India’s first driverless line and the only one that serves IGI Terminal 1 directly. It is currently running as two physically separate sections with a construction gap between them; the Magenta Line’s two operational sections sets out both stop lists and the change of train that may be required.
- Yellow Line is the main north–south spine, running from Samaypur Badli through central Delhi and South Delhi into Gurugram. For most journeys through the middle of the city it is the default, and the Yellow Line station by station covers its full sequence.
- Violet Line is the only line connecting three cities — Delhi, Faridabad and Ballabhgarh. Its stretch between ITO and Kashmere Gate is known as the Heritage Line. It acts as a parallel to the heavily used Yellow Line through South and Central Delhi.
- Red Line was the first to open, in December 2002, and runs across the north of the city.
- Green Line serves west Delhi and Bahadurgarh, with an unusual arrangement of two northern termini at Inderlok and Kirti Nagar.
- Airport Express, the Orange Line, is the fastest on the network at speeds up to 120 km/h, reaching IGI Terminal 3 from New Delhi in around 19 minutes. It has its own fare table and regular DMRC tokens and smart cards are not valid on it.
- Grey Line is the shortest at 5.19 km and four stations, linking Dwarka to Najafgarh. It has a single interchange to the rest of the network, at Dwarka.
Why Published Station Counts Disagree
There are five reasons, and once you know them the contradictions stop being confusing.
1. Noida’s Aqua Line is a different operator.
The Aqua Line running through Noida and Greater Noida is operated by NMRC, not DMRC. It uses separate ticketing — a Delhi Metro card is not valid on it. Some published totals include it and some do not. A DMRC-sourced figure from 2019 explicitly counted both the Aqua Line and Rapid Metro to arrive at “12 lines, 285 stations”, which is why you will still see twelve lines quoted.
2. Rapid Metro Gurgaon is a judgement call.
DMRC took over its operations on 22 October 2019. Whether an operated-but-separately-built system counts as part of the Delhi Metro is a legitimate difference of opinion, not an error.
3. The Airport Express may or may not count as a line.
It has its own fare structure and its own ticketing. Counts of “eight colour-coded lines plus the Airport Express” and counts of “ten lines” are describing the same network.
4. Interchange stations get counted once, or once per line.
Kashmere Gate serves three lines. Count it once and you get one number; count it per line and you get another. Across roughly 28 interchange stations, that convention alone moves the total substantially.
5. Recency — and this is the big one right now.
The network grew on 8 March 2026, when new corridors opened on the Magenta and Pink lines.
That last point is easy to verify for yourself. The two lines that changed in March 2026 are precisely the two that aggregators currently have wrong. One widely used travel site, updated within the past week, still lists the Pink Line at 38 stations and the Magenta Line at 26. The current figures are 46 and 33. Those sites are not careless so much as working from a snapshot taken before the March openings.
A source warning worth having
The official DMRC website is delhimetrorail.com.
delhimetrorail.org is a different site. It ranks well, presents itself with similar authority, and publishes different figures — including the “eight lines plus Airport Express” framing and a network total of “over 389 km, 285+ stations”.
It is not the operator. If a figure matters to you, check the .com.
Fares
Delhi Metro fares run on distance bands, revised on 25 August 2025 — the first revision in eight years.
| Distance | Fare |
|---|---|
| 0–2 km | ₹11 |
| 2–5 km | ₹21 |
| 5–12 km | ₹32 |
| 12–21 km | ₹43 |
| 21–32 km | ₹54 |
| Over 32 km | ₹64 |
A smart card takes 10% off every journey. Sundays and national holidays are charged at lower rates.
Two exceptions matter. The Airport Express runs its own table, roughly ₹11 to ₹75, and DMRC tokens and cards are not valid on it. The Noida Aqua Line needs a separate ticket entirely, being a different operator.
Because the bands are distance-based rather than station-based, a short-looking journey can cross a boundary and a long-looking one may not. For any specific pair of stations, use the DMRC fare calculator rather than estimating from the table.
Interchanges and Moving Around the Network
The network has a substantial number of interchange stations, but only one currently serves three lines. We are not publishing a network-wide interchange total: the figures in circulation come from the same aggregator summaries this page has just cautioned against, and we could not corroborate one against DMRC.
Kashmere Gate is the only triple interchange in operation, connecting the Red, Yellow and Violet lines. That will change: Phase 4 makes Azadpur a triple interchange with the Yellow, Pink and Magenta lines, and Phase 5A will do the same for Central Secretariat.
The interchanges that carry the most weight day to day:
| Station | Lines | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Kashmere Gate | Red, Yellow, Violet | The only triple; the northern hub |
| Rajiv Chowk | Yellow, Blue | The busiest station on the network |
| Hauz Khas | Yellow, Magenta | The southern crossing point; deepest station at 29 m |
| Kalkaji Mandir | Violet, Magenta | South-east crossing |
| Botanical Garden | Blue, Magenta | The Noida gateway |
| Janakpuri West | Blue, Magenta | The western crossing |
| Central Secretariat | Yellow, Violet | Central government district |
| Yamuna Bank | Blue | Where the Blue Line splits |
For journeys into the centre, more than one route usually works, and the obvious one is not always fastest — changing lines to reach Connaught Place shows a case where the instinctive route to Rajiv Chowk is slower than a direct run to Janpath. Heading the other way, reaching Gurugram from the southern network runs on the Yellow Line without a change at all.
Timings and Practicalities
Services broadly run from around 5:30 AM to 11:30 PM. First trains on some lines start later on Sundays. Station-specific first and last train times vary by station and by direction, and several published figures are out of date — take them from the DMRC app on the day you travel rather than from a listing page.
Ticketing options are tokens, rechargeable smart cards, and QR tickets. The smart card is worth having if you travel more than occasionally, both for the 10% discount and for faster entry.
Two practical notes. Trains on most lines run every few minutes at peak, so a missed train is rarely a problem. And Hauz Khas, though a useful interchange, is deep — the transfer between Yellow and Magenta levels involves real walking and several escalators, so budget for it rather than treating it as a step across a platform.
What Is Being Built
Phase 4 totals 112.32 km. Its three priority corridors were approved in March 2019 with a 2026 deadline, and as of August 2026 none is fully complete — the Magenta extension alone has opened in three separate pieces with a 16.6 km gap still under construction.
Three further corridors were approved later: Lajpat Nagar to Saket G-Block, Inderlok to Indraprastha, and the Rithala–Narela–Nathupur (Kundli) extension of the Red Line, approved in December 2024 at 26.463 km.
The Inderlok–Indraprastha corridor, originally planned as a Green Line extension, is now being built as a Magenta extension instead. Once complete, Magenta will run about 89 km and become the longest line on the network, interchanging with itself at Nabi Karim.
Phase 5A adds RK Ashram Marg to Indraprastha, entirely underground, taking the network through Central Secretariat, India Gate and Bharat Mandapam.
South Delhi’s own Phase 4 work is the Lajpat Nagar to Saket G-Block branch — a branch of the Golden Line rather than a line of its own, approved in March 2024 with no published opening date. How Phase 4 changes South Delhi’s coverage covers the local picture.
Every date attached to Phase 4 and Phase 5 should be read as an expectation rather than a commitment. The record above is the reason.
For scale, the network carried a record 81.87 lakh journeys in a single day on 8 August 2025. Average daily figures published elsewhere range widely, so that record is the more solidly attested number.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many stations does the Delhi Metro have?
DMRC’s own website gives about 303 stations across roughly 416 km, though that page is undated so may itself lag a recent opening. Lower figures — 288, 285, 271, 255 — are in circulation because they count different things: whether Noida’s Aqua Line and Rapid Metro are included, whether interchange stations are counted once or per line, and whether the figure predates the corridors that opened on 8 March 2026.
How many lines are there?
Ten operational, including the Airport Express, with the Golden Line under construction. You will also see “twelve”, which counts the Noida Aqua Line and Rapid Metro, and “eight plus the Airport Express”, which treats it separately.
Is the Noida Metro part of the Delhi Metro?
No. The Aqua Line is operated by NMRC and requires a separate ticket. A Delhi Metro smart card will not work on it. The two networks meet in Noida’s Sector 51 and 52 area, though you change between them on foot rather than within a single station.
What is the minimum and maximum fare?
₹11 minimum and ₹64 maximum on the main network, under bands revised on 25 August 2025. A smart card takes 10% off. The Airport Express runs a separate table up to about ₹75.
What is the official Delhi Metro website?
delhimetrorail.com. Note that delhimetrorail.org is a different site that ranks well and publishes different figures — it is not the operator.