Junagadh to Veraval Taxi Fare & Car Rental Guide

Quick answer. Junagadh to Veraval distance: 85-90 km by road (operator boards print 86-91 km), a 1.5-2 hour drive, 82 km by rail. Junagadh to Veraval taxi fare: a sedan one-way runs Rs.1,820-2,499 on aggregator boards, GSRTC buses open near Rs.90, and trains cover the stage in 1h06 to just over two hours.

Veraval is not Somnath, and that is the first thing this page needs to say. The temple town most travellers book for sits 5-7 km further west, which means a cab that ends at Veraval ends at the fishing port, the rail junction and the headquarters of Gir Somnath district, with the Jyotirlinga one short auto ride away. Anyone who needs the shrine gate itself should keep our Somnath Temple complete guide open next to this one; anyone who needs a station, a bed or a table of fish is already at the right drop point. What Veraval is, in one line: one of India’s major fishing ports, the port the Junagadh nawabs built their ships in, and the town whose Junagadh Gate you drive straight through on the way in. Junagadh pickups here run from the temple gate, the bus stand or the Girnar taleti road; Veraval drops land at the lodge gate, the station forecourt or the beach-side hotels. Fares and timings on this page were last reviewed in October 2026; confirm current rates before you travel.

Junagadh to Veraval Distance and Route

The road distance reads 85-90 km depending on where the city exit is counted, with operator boards printing 86, 87, 88 and 91 km for the same drive; the rail distance from Junagadh Junction to Veraval settles at 82 km; and driving time is one and a half to two hours on a clear road, the bus timetable allowing about two hours, the fastest train covering the rail leg in one hour forty-five.

By road (NH 151). The four-laned highway leaves Junagadh through Vanthali at 14-16 km, runs on through Keshod and Maliya Hatina, and enters Veraval through the historic Junagadh Gate, cruising at about 60-70 km/h. Two toll plazas, Gadoi and Dari, sit on this road and together run about Rs.215-235 for a car at current FASTag rates; confirm NHAI’s schedule for your vehicle class. By rail: the same run on steel, several trains a day in both directions on the Ahmedabad-Veraval main line, and since the Somnath station shut for redevelopment in September 2022, Veraval Junction is where the coast’s trains actually stop. By bus: the state board and private operators leave through the day and night for a fare that undercuts everything else on this page, and the Veraval drop is on the way to Somnath, so through coaches know the town well.

Route Stops Between Junagadh and Veraval

Road conditions and sequence. The highway is largely four-laned and holds 60-70 km/h between halts: Vanthali in the first quarter hour, Keshod at 38-44 km, Maliya Hatina and the Chorvad turnoff at 55-62 km, then the Junagadh Gate at the Veraval edge. Bypasses skim both town centres, so the minutes you lose sit at the Gadoi and Dari plazas rather than the junctions, and those two plazas are the only routine stops on this road.

Junagadh to Veraval Taxi Fare

Taxi quotes on this route vary because operators bill in different ways: some fold GST and fuel into the headline, some sell fixed one-way packages, and some bill per kilometre and let the Keshod traffic decide. Gozocabs lists the run from Rs.1,820, DDcab quotes Rs.2,250 for the sedan over 87 km with GST inside the price, and PayalCab opens at Rs.2,499 with 86.7 km included. The mid-market for a Dzire or an Etios sits near Rs.1,900-2,400. These are third-party aggregator quotes dated October 2026 and they move; confirm at booking. The grid below carries what those boards print.

How they bill: minimums, tolls and surcharges. Rates advertised under Rs.2,000 usually exclude the mandatory pieces: GST, driver allowance, tolls and waiting time. Gozocabs’ Rs.1,820 sits before GST and its round-trip basis prints at Rs.12.50 per kilometre; PayalCab’s Rs.2,499 sedan bundles 86.7 km with extra distance at Rs.15 per km, and its hatchback tier opens at Rs.1,999; CabBazar’s grid runs Rs.9 for a hatchback or sedan and Rs.12.5 for the SUV. Read those per-km rates carefully: outstation per-kilometre pricing usually applies to the round-trip distance with a daily minimum, so Rs.11 per km is not Rs.11 times 87 km. What that money covers: fuel, the driver’s day and usually the tolls; parking and extra waiting are the extras named most often. Tolls run the same way in both directions: the Gadoi and Dari plazas together run about Rs.215-235 for a car at current FASTag rates, and on a round trip the return crossings sit on the same booking because the car runs back on your ticket, so confirm the quote is toll-inclusive for both legs; NHAI discounts a repeat FASTag crossing within 24 hours.

Vehicle classes. On 87 km the package buys the better part of a half-day of driver time, the fuel and the positioning run, which is why the Rs.1,820 boards come with conditions printed small. One luggage check before you book: a coastal sedan holds two medium bags comfortably, a third moves the family to the Ertiga at Rs.2,900-3,030, so ask the model at confirmation, not at departure. Three adults with luggage should price the Crysta at Rs.3,550 before defaulting to the sedan, and a group of eight or more travels cheaper per head in the Tempo Traveller at Rs.5,550 than in two sedans booked separately.

Round-trip minimums: outstation boards bill a 300 km daily minimum, the standard across regional taxi desks, not the 163 km the odometer reads on a same-day Junagadh-Veraval return; at Rs.13 per km with the Rs.300 driver allowance and 5 per cent GST inside, that minimum lands the Dzire round trip at Rs.4,410.
CNG trunk alert: most Dzire-class cabs here run on CNG, and the cylinder in the boot leaves room for one cabin trolley, so hard-shell families should book the Ertiga class; roof carriers are rare on sedans and sit on the SUV class where they exist at all, which is a question for confirmation.

Waiting-charge callout: the harbour and the Junagadh Gate are the two stops this route’s fares drift on. Confirm the waiting rate per hour before departure if you want the driver to hold at the jetty for the fish-market hour or at the beach for sunset, because an unagreed halt converts to waiting time on the cheaper per-kilometre boards. AC while the car is moving is part of the fare; at a summer halt it is the engine idling for the AC that drivers bill as waiting, so settle that rule before departure. Local hire inside Veraval is a separate, cheaper market: full-day sedan packages for town sightseeing open near Rs.1,500-1,600.

Round trip. DDcab’s one-day Junagadh package prices the sedan at Rs.3,300 with the return inside it, the SUV at Rs.4,500 and the Crysta at Rs.6,000, and ClearCarRental’s reverse grid opens at Rs.4,279 for the Indica class and Rs.4,410 for the Dzire: on this short stage the return leg costs less than the sum of two one-ways, for the plain reason that the car was coming back anyway. Book the single leg now if the Veraval exit date is soft, then add the return when the train or the onward bus firms up, and ask whether the quoted rate holds for a return added later.

Junagadh to Veraval by Train

On this route the train is not an alternative to the cab so much as a rival to it: 82 km of rail against 85-90 km of road, with the same two towns at either end. Several trains a day run the stage in one hour forty-five to just over two hours, and unlike the Somnath journey, there is no interchange to plan here, because Veraval Junction is the destination. The one complication worth knowing before you book: the temple-side Somnath station, code SMNH, sits 1.4 km from the shrine but has been shut for redevelopment since September 2022 while it is rebuilt in the temple’s architectural style, so coast-bound trains that used to call there stop at Veraval instead. Some boards still print Somnath as the destination because the train’s name says so. Check the day’s running sheet on NTES before you travel, because that closure has an end date the railways keep moving. The tables below are direction-correct.

Toward the coast (Junagadh Jn to Veraval):

| Train | Days | Junagadh Jn | Veraval | Run | | — | — | — | — | — | | 19252 Okha-Veraval Express | Daily | 03:14 | 05:15 | 2h01, the day’s first wheels; general around Rs.150 | | 22957 Somnath SF Express | Daily | 04:00 | 05:45 | 1h45, the fastest daily and the one worth setting an alarm for | | 19217 Saurashtra Janta | Daily | 04:47 | 06:50 | 2h03, the slow morning | | 26901 Sabarmati-Veraval Vande Bharat | Daily except Thu | 11:02 | 12:50 | 1h48, premium AC Chair Car and Executive via Botad since August 2026 | | 11466 Jabalpur-Veraval Express | Tue, Sat | 15:02 | 17:25 | 2h03, the afternoon service; runs via Bina, so confirm the day on NTES | | 19119 Somnath Intercity | Daily | 17:30 | 19:30 | 2h00, last coast-bound train of the day |

Back toward Junagadh (Veraval to Junagadh Jn):

| Train | Days | Veraval | Junagadh Jn | Run | | — | — | — | — | — | | 19120 SMNH-ADI Intercity | Daily | 07:30 | 08:46 | 1h16, the morning return | | 19218 Saurashtra Janta | Daily | 11:50 | 12:56 | 1h06, the fastest return of the day | | 26902 Veraval-Sabarmati Vande Bharat | Daily except Thu | 15:50 | 16:48 | 1h58, premium return, lands at Sabarmati 22:25 via Botad | | 59424 Veraval-Rajkot Passenger | Daily | 17:00 | 18:35 | 1h35, evening return; NTES may list it in the 09514 special series | | 22958 Somnath SF Express | Daily | 21:50 | 23:08 | 1h18, the last return of the day | | 19251 SMNH-Okha Express | Daily | 23:05 | 00:15 | 1h10, the late-night return, next-day arrival |

Classes and fares. The Okha-Veraval Express sells its general seat near Rs.150 for the whole stage, the Janta and the Intercity run similar unreserved pricing with sleeper and chair-car steps above, and nothing here costs more than a short sedan’s overage. First coast-bound wheels leave at 03:14, the 04:00 Somnath SF Express buys back fifty-five minutes against the passenger trains, and the 17:30 Intercity is the day’s last service toward Veraval: miss it and the night belongs to the buses or the cab. On the return, the 07:30 Intercity catches the working morning, the 17:00 passenger catches the office evening, and the 21:50 Somnath SF Express is the last clean departure, with the 23:05 Okha service behind it. Slower daytime passenger trains also run this stage and take around four hours, so treat the grids as the main services rather than the whole day’s sheet. Autos and share-rickshaws fill the Veraval forecourt at every arrival, and with the station, harbour and beach-side lodges inside the same couple of kilometres, the drop you give the driver matters more than the fare.

Junagadh to Veraval by Bus

The bus board runs through the day and night, which is its whole argument. The state operator and the private Saurashtra names run this stage both as a full Junagadh-Somnath through service and as a Veraval-town drop, so the coaches that pass Keshod also pass the Veraval bus stand on their way to the temple. Fares track the corridor: state non-AC boards open near Rs.90, the GSRTC AC classes sit near Rs.174, and the overnight Volvo-class sleepers reach Rs.1,200-1,500 for anyone who wants the coast at dawn. The private names on the route are the familiar Saurashtra quartet: Ashapura Travels, Ashapura Boliwal, Sagar Travels of Ahmedabad and Jay Somnath Travels. First and last departures shift by operator and season, so check the official GSRTC portal and the ticketing boards for the day you travel rather than trusting a fixed clock.

The drop is city-side rather than doorstep: Veraval’s bus stand sits inland from the harbour, and beach-side lodge guests take a share-rickshaw or an auto the last stretch. Boarding in Junagadh gathers at the central bus station, with the GSRTC’s own counters taking cash for anything still unreserved an hour before departure. Travellers with a day pack do well on the state services; families with two large bags and a darshan clock to keep do better in the sedan already priced above. The same warning as on the night runs to Somnath applies: the overnight sleepers are working buses, and a senior traveller who values sleep should read the cab grid first.

Junagadh to Veraval by Air

Junagadh’s own airport lies at Keshod, code IXK, about forty kilometres from the Junagadh city centre and four kilometres north-east of Keshod town, toward Junagadh. IXK is a public domestic airport serving Junagadh, Keshod and Veraval, and it sees scheduled service as well as charters: Alliance Air runs an Ahmedabad-Keshod service in the October 2026 window, so check the current timetable rather than assuming it is charter-only. A cab from IXK joins this road at Keshod and can drop straight into Veraval without a second booking. The larger scheduled-metal rings sit further out: Rajkot’s Hirasar International Airport sits about 130 to 135 km and two and a half to three hours up the road, serving the capital-city flights; on this route’s coastal flank, Diu airport sits about 88 to 90 km east of Veraval along the Una coast road, for anyone arriving from the island run rather than the mainland. If the flight saves less than the cab stage costs, book the cab.

Practical version: a family landing at Rajkot at midday asks for a separate quote for the longer drive, since Rajkot sits a hundred kilometres before Junagadh and this route’s sedan fare does not apply, and reaches the lodge by mid-afternoon. Airport drops carry the usual package-cap warning from the longer corridors: confirm the included kilometres at booking, because an airport run that starts counting extra distance from the terminal gate can inflate the per-kilometre overage before you reach the port.

What to See in Veraval

The Junagadh Gate. You do not visit this one so much as drive through it: the highway from Junagadh passes straight under the carved gateway on the way into town, and a driver will slow on his own if you ask for the photo. The gate is the surviving piece of the old Nawabi-era walls, with intricate carvings on the stonework and four lion sculptures across the top, and local tradition ties it to the same era of raids that hit the Somnath coast. Fifteen minutes is enough. The fishing harbour. Veraval is one of India’s major fishing ports, worked mainly by the Kharwas fishing community on traditional boats and trawlers, with a boat-building yard still turning out hulls beside the jetty, the harbour’s best photo stop for hull-at-work shots. The GIDC estate behind the harbour houses the fish-processing factories that export abroad, and the coastal research centres CIFT and CMFRI work from the same town. The jetty is busiest from dawn into mid-morning, the one Veraval stop worth timing early. The annual monsoon fishing ban from June to mid-August parks the trawlers at anchor and leaves the jetty to the small boats. The beach and its lighthouse. Veraval Beach sits in the middle of the town rather than outside it: a calm stretch of sand with the lighthouse standing at the right-hand end of the shore, fishing boats riding the swell outside the break, and a sunset that faces the Arabian Sea square on. It is five minutes from the station forecourt and about five km from the temple road.

The Nawabi remains. Veraval was the port of the Junagadh princely state, and the town still carries the remains of that administration: the Nawabi summer palace in its Gothic style, and the ruins of the old fort and harbour walls that the sea has taken back. Access is mostly exterior, but the outlines explain why a fishing town became a princely port. Five to seven kilometres west: the temple. The Somnath shrine at Prabhas Patan sits a short hop from the Veraval drop. Darshan runs 6:00 AM to 10:00 PM with aartis at 7:00 AM, 12:00 noon and 7:00 PM, and the parking, shoe-bag and queue rules are covered in our Somnath Temple complete guide. For the transfer, the Veraval to Somnath taxi service quotes that leg by the trip rather than the meter, typically Rs.200-300 over the Veraval drop quote, and Triveni Sangam, Bhalka Tirth and the Prabhas Patan museum all fall inside the same loop. Forty kilometres south-west: the lion country. The Sasan Gir gateway runs off the Talala road from this same highway, which is why wildlife days and port days chain together so easily; the Sasan Gir to Veraval car rental guide covers that leg and its timings.

Veraval Return and Onward Options

The return leg costs less than the sum of its parts, because the car was coming back anyway: reverse cab grids open near the forward ones, DDcab’s one-day package folds the sedan return into Rs.3,300, and ClearCarRental’s round trip lands near Rs.4,410 with the 300 km day and the driver allowance already inside. On rail, the Veraval-origin departures run through the day and evening, the 07:30 Intercity, the 11:50 Janta, the 17:00 passenger, the 21:50 Somnath SF Express and the 23:05 Okha service, so the port never locks a traveller in overnight; the direction-correct grid is in the train section above. Onward options branch from this same junction rather than from the temple: the Somnath and Triveni circuit is the five-to-seven-kilometre turn west, the Sasan Gir line picks up the interior for the lion country, and the Dwarka corridor runs north and the Una-Diu coast east from the harbour town for anyone extending the trip. Travellers continuing on the full coast road find the fares, halts and departure clocks for that run in the Junagadh to Somnath car rental guide, which shares this road for its final stretch.

On a same-day return the drive is only about two hours, so the real choice is whether the harbour day can afford to become a driving day: traders take the noon return and lose the evening, while sunset travellers keep the car through the last light.

Eight Things to Know Before You Book

One. Say the drop correctly: Veraval is 5-7 km short of the Somnath temple, so a booking to “Somnath” and a booking to “Veraval” end at different gates. Two. SMNH, the temple-side station, has been closed for redevelopment since September 2022; until the temple-style rebuild reopens it, Veraval Junction is the railhead, inside the town you are booked for. Three. The two toll plazas, Gadoi and Dari, add roughly Rs.215-235 for a car across both gates; rates move with vehicle class and FASTag, so confirm NHAI’s schedule. Four. Keshod at 38-44 km is the natural halt, and the Keshod airport (IXK) lies about four kilometres from Keshod town toward Junagadh, not beyond it.

Five. You drive through the Junagadh Gate on the way into town; ask the driver to slow, because a photo taken from inside the moving cab rarely lands. Six. The harbour works from dawn, so a driver held after mid-morning waits on a finished shift, and the waiting clock runs either way. Seven. Veraval is the headquarters of Gir Somnath district and the temple town of Prabhas Patan sits 5-7 km west inside the same district; festival nights around Mahashivratri at Bhavnath and the full-moon Kartik season reprice the whole board in both towns, the one date this page cannot price. Eight. Carry the lodge or station name in writing; every driver asks twice.

Suggested Trip Plans

Plan one, the port-and-temple morning. Cab from Junagadh at 06:00, the Junagadh Gate photo on the way in, Veraval Beach and the harbour jetty before the heat, then the 5-7 km turn west for darshan between 8:00 and 10:00 AM, Triveni Sangam and Bhalka Tirth after, home by evening light. Plan two, the Girnar-first day. Dawn at the taleti for the ropeway or the steps, lunch in the city, Uparkot and Mahabat Maqbara in the afternoon heat, then this road at 16:00 for a Veraval night with the beach at sunset; the Girnar Nature Safari belt adds a sanctuary hour for families who want the lions too, but check the wind first: gusty weather pauses the ropeway and turns the loop into a steps day. Plan three, the rail hybrid. Train 22957 at 04:00 to Veraval for 05:45, the fish market and Junagadh Gate in the morning, the Somnath turn at midday, then the 59424 passenger at 17:00 or the 22958 Somnath SF Express at 21:50 home, arriving Junagadh at 18:35 or 23:08: the cheapest full day on this page. The 17:30 you may see listed is the 19119, bound for the coast, not a return. Plan four, the two-day coast. Day one this road, the harbour and the beach at dusk, night in Veraval; day two the temple at the 7:00 AM aarti while the queue is short, Bhalka and Triveni after, return after lunch.

Frequently Asked Questions

How far is Veraval from Junagadh?

The road distance is 85-90 km depending on where the city exit is counted, with operator boards printing 86-91 km for the same run, and the rail distance from Junagadh Junction to Veraval Junction is 82 km.

How long does it take to travel from Junagadh to Veraval?

By cab, one and a half to two hours on a clear road. By bus, about two hours on the timetable. By train, one hour forty-five on the fastest daily service, with the slower passenger trains taking around four hours.

What is the taxi fare from Junagadh to Veraval?

Sedan one-way quotes run Rs.1,820-2,499 across the aggregator boards, the SUV class sits at Rs.2,900-3,030, an Innova Crysta quotes near Rs.3,550, and a twelve-seat Tempo Traveller at Rs.5,550. Round-trip packages for the sedan open near Rs.3,300-4,410 with the return inside the fare.

Can I visit Somnath and Veraval on the same day?

Yes, and the two stops are only 5-7 km apart, so one cab covers both without re-routing. Veraval carries the harbour, the beach and the Junagadh Gate; Somnath carries darshan, which runs 6:00 AM to 10:00 PM with aartis at 7:00 AM, 12:00 noon and 7:00 PM. The one-day cab package covers the return by evening.

Which railway station serves Veraval?

Veraval Junction, code VRL, inside the town itself. The temple-side Somnath station, code SMNH, sits 1.4 km from the shrine but has been closed for redevelopment since September 2022, so trains that used to call there are short-terminated at Veraval. Check NTES for the day’s status.

Are there direct trains from Junagadh to Veraval?

Yes, several daily in both directions. Coast-bound, the 03:14 Okha-Veraval Express is the day’s first and the 17:30 Somnath Intercity is the last; back toward Junagadh, the 07:30 Intercity opens the morning and the 23:05 Okha service closes the night, with the 1h45 Somnath SF Express at 04:00 the fastest run of the day. Some train names still say Somnath because that is what the board has always printed; while SMNH stays closed, Veraval is where you get off.

How far is Somnath temple from Veraval?

Five to seven kilometres, about fifteen to twenty minutes by cab, auto or share-rickshaw: autos quote roughly Rs.150-200 private, Rs.20-50 a seat on a share rickshaw, and Rs.10-15 on a GSRTC shuttle between the station and the temple. Veraval Junction, the beach and the harbour all sit on the town side of that distance, so a morning at the port plus a darshan at the temple fits inside a single booking without a second vehicle.

What is there to see in Veraval itself?

Four stops carry the town: the Junagadh Gate you drive through on the way in, the working fishing harbour with its jetty and processing belt, the beach with the lighthouse at its northern end, and the Nawabi summer palace remains from the Junagadh princely port era. The Somnath temple, Triveni Sangam and Bhalka Tirth all sit 5-7 km west in the same district.

Is a taxi available from Veraval at short notice?

Yes. The station forecourt, the harbour road and the beach-side hotels all carry cabs through the day, and same-day dispatch from Junagadh is normal outside festival weeks. Keep four things ready when you call: pickup point (station, harbour, beach or lodge), drop address, luggage count, and departure time.

What is the best time of year for this trip?

October to March, when the coast road is cool enough for the harbour walk and the beach at sunset. The monsoon roughs the sea and greens the Keshod belt, and the summer heat makes the midday jetty hard work; either season the fishing boats work from dawn, so the morning belongs to the harbour whatever the calendar says.

Eighty-five to ninety kilometres of road, five transport modes, one fishing port at the end. Fares and timings on this page were last reviewed in October 2026; third-party taxi quotes move and train statuses change, so confirm with the operator and NTES before you travel.

Booking and dispatch desk. Somnath Yatra’s own dispatch desk handles this run: message on WhatsApp at +91 99789 02166 or call the same number for a fare quote and same-day dispatch, any hour. Keep four things ready: pickup point (temple gate, bus stand or taleti road), drop address (station forecourt, harbour road or beach-side lodge), luggage count, and departure time.

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