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A 15 km drive each way in a petrol car costs roughly ₹5–8 a km once you include fuel, servicing and tyres — ₹5,000–8,000 a month before parking. A metro or bus pass often costs a quarter of that, and an electric scooter even less.
Choose your usual mode and enter the distance and costs. The calculator shows your monthly and yearly cost, cost per km, hours spent commuting, CO₂, and a table comparing every other way of getting to work over the same distance.
| Currency | ₹ Indian rupee |
| How you commute | Car — petrol |
| One-way distance | 15 km |
| Commuting days a month | 22 |
| Mileage (km per litre, kg or unit) | 15 |
| Fuel or electricity price | 105 per litre / kg / unit |
| Maintenance & tyres | 1.5 per km |
| Parking a day | 50 |
| Tolls a day | 0 |
| Metro / bus fare one way | 40 |
| Cab fare per km | 18 |
| Travel time one way (optional) | 45 min |
| Your commute costs | ₹6,710 a month |
| Per year | ₹80,520 |
| Per day / per km | ₹305 · ₹10.17 per km |
| Distance | 660 km a month · 7,920 a year |
| CO₂ | 1,220 kg a year |
| Time spent commuting | 396 hours a year (16.5 full days) |
₹6,710 a month.
| Currency | ₹ Indian rupee |
| How you commute | Electric scooter |
| One-way distance | 10 km |
| Commuting days a month | 24 |
| Mileage (km per litre, kg or unit) | 30 |
| Fuel or electricity price | 8 per litre / kg / unit |
| Maintenance & tyres | 0.3 per km |
| Parking a day | 0 |
| Tolls a day | 0 |
| Metro / bus fare one way | 30 |
| Cab fare per km | 18 |
| Travel time one way (optional) | 30 min |
| Your commute costs | ₹272 a month |
| Per year | ₹3,264 |
| Per day / per km | ₹11 · ₹0.57 per km |
| Distance | 480 km a month · 5,760 a year |
| CO₂ | 138 kg a year |
| Time spent commuting | 288 hours a year (12 full days) |
₹272 a month.
For a petrol car giving 15 km/litre at ₹105, fuel alone is about ₹7 a km; add ₹1–2 a km for servicing and tyres.
Almost always for a single person: a ₹40 one-way fare for 15 km is under ₹1.5 a km, compared with ₹8+ by car.
It helps: 90 minutes a day of commuting is about 400 hours a year. Enter what an hour of your time is worth to see the full cost.