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GATE 2026 is approaching, and the exam centres for this prestigious examination have been officially announced. Candidates who are preparing for the test should review the list of exam centres carefully to plan their travel and accommodation accordingly. Knowing the exam locations in advance will allow candidates to make necessary arrangements well in time. This article provides details about the various exam cities and towns for GATE 2026.
GATE Exam Centres 2026
The Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2026, one of the most prestigious exams for engineering graduates, will be conducted by IIT Guwahati. The examination is scheduled to take place on the 7th 8th, 14th and 15th February 2026 at various centres across the country. IIT Guwahati has recently released the tentative list of exam cities and towns for GATE 2026. Candidates who have registered for the exam can now check the list of available exam centres. This article provides detailed information on the GATE 2026 exam centres to help candidates plan accordingly.
GATE Exam 2026 Centre List
GATE Exam Centres 2026 are bifurcated into 8 zones, i.e. IIT Kharagpur, IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Madras, IIT Kanpur, IIT Guwahati, IIT Roorkee, and IISc Bangalore. The Candidates were required to fill out the three choices of exam cities in the order of preference from the same zone. Aspirants can check out this article for all the details related to GATE Exam Centres 2026. Read this article till the end and must bookmark this website for further Engineering Job Updates.
GATE Centre 2026 Zone-Wise and State-Wise
The GATE Exam 2026 is going to be conducted in the 8 zonal centres encompassing the seven IITs and the IISc Bangalore. The GATE Exam Centres 2026 are tabulated below:
| Zonal GATE Office | No. of Cities | Tentative List of Examination Cities/Towns |
| IISc Bangalore | 37 | Andhra Pradesh: Ananthapuramu, Kurnool Kerala: Angamaly, Kannur, Kasaragod, Kozhikode, Malappuram, Palakkad, Pathanamthitta, Payyanur, Thrissur, Vatakara, Wayanad Karnataka: Bagalkot, Ballari (Bellary), Belagavi (Belgaum), Bengaluru North, Bengaluru South, Bidar, Chikkballapur, Chikkamagaluru, Davanagere, Hassan, Hubballi (Hubli)/Dharwad, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga), Kolar, Mandya, Mangaluru, Manipal, Mysuru (Mysore), Puttur, Shivamogga (Shimoga), Tumakuru Telangana: Hyderabad, Medak, Nalgonda Andaman and Nicobar: Port Blair |
| IIT Bombay | 38 | Gujarat: Ahmedabad, Anand, Bhavnagar, Bhuj, Gandhinagar, Jamnagar, Mehsana, Rajkot, Surat, Vadodara, Vapi Maharashtra: Ahmednagar, Akola, Ambajogai, Amravati, Aurangabad, Baramati, Chandrapur, Dhule, Jalgaon, Kolhapur, Latur, Mumbai, Nagpur, Nanded, Nashik, Navi-Mumbai-Thane, Panvel-Raigad, Pune, Ratnagiri, Sangamner-Loni-Shirdi, Sangli, Satara, Solapur, Vasai-Palghar, Wardha, Yavatmal Goa: Goa |
| IIT Delhi | 19 | Haryana: Faridabad, Gurugram, Hisar Jammu and Kashmir: Jammu-Samba, Srinagar Ladakh: Leh Madhya Pradesh: Indore, Ujjain New Delhi: New Delhi Rajasthan: Ajmer, Alwar, Bhilwara, Bikaner, Dausa, Hanumangarh, Jaipur, Jodhpur Uttar Pradesh: Greater NOIDA, Mathura |
| IIT Guwahati | 22 | Arunachal Pradesh: Itanagar Assam: Dibrugarh, Guwahati, Jorhat, Silchar, Tezpur Bihar: Bhagalpur, Muzaffarpur, Patna, Purnea Jharkhand: Bokaro Steel City, Dhanbad Manipur: Imphal Meghalaya: Shillong Mizoram: Aizawl Nagaland: Dimapur-Kohima Sikkim: Gangtok Tripura: Agartala West Bengal: Asansol-Durgapur, Burdwan, Kalyani, Siliguri |
| IIT Kanpur | 15 | Madhya Pradesh: Bhopal, Gwalior, Jabalpur, Sagar, Satna Uttar Pradesh: Agra, Aligarh, Allahabad, Ayodhya, Bareilly, Gorakhpur, Jhansi, Kanpur, Lucknow, Varanasi |
| IIT Kharagpur | 29 | Andhra Pradesh: Eluru, Kakinada-Surampalem, Rajamahendravaram (Rajahmundry), Srikakulam, Tadepalligudem, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam, Vizianagaram Chhattisgarh: Bhilai, Bilaspur, Raipur Jharkhand: Hazaribag, Jamshedpur, Ranchi Odisha: Balasore, Brahmapur, Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Puri, Rourkela, Sambalpur West Bengal: Baharampur-Murshidabad, Bankura, Hooghly, Howrah, Kharagpur, Kolaghat, Kolkata, Suri |
| IIT Madras | 42 | Andhra Pradesh: Chirala, Chittoor, Guntur, Kadapa, Nandyala, Nellore, Ongole, Tirupati Kerala: Alappuzha, Aluva-Ernakulam, Attingal, Chengannur, Kanjirapally, Kollam, Kothamangalam, Kottayam, Muvattupuzha, Thiruvananthapuram Pondicherry : Puducherry Tamilnadu: Chennai South, Chennai West, Coimbatore, Cuddalore, Dindigul, Erode, Kanyakumari-Nagercoil, Krishnagiri, Madurai, Namakkal, Pollachi, Ramanathapuram, Salem, Thanjavur, Theni, Thoothukudi, Tiruchirapalli, Tirunelveli, Vellore, Virudhunagar Telangana: Adilabad, Karimnagar, Khammam, Kodad, Kothagudem, Nizamabad, Suryapet, Warangal |
| IIT Roorkee | 26 | Haryana: Ambala, Kurukshetra, Himachal Pradesh: Baddi, Bilaspur, Hamirpur, Kangra, Mandi, Palampur, Shimla-Solan, Una, Punjab: Amritsar, Bathinda, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Mohali-Chandigarh, Patiala, Pathankot. Uttarakhand: Dehradun, Haldwani, Roorkee Uttar Pradesh: Ghaziabad, Meerut, Moradabad, Muzaffarnagar, NOIDA, Saharanpur |
Choice of Examination City
The Candidates will take the GATE 2026 Exam based on the Exam centre filled up by the online application. The key points regarding GATE Exam Centres 2026 are given below:
- The Aspirants will be allotted centres on the basis of their choice of three cities given by them while online application from the list of examination cities given above.
- All three choices must be from the same GATE 2026 zone.
- GATE 2026 reserves the right to add a new city or remove an existing one, and allot a city that may not be from any of the choices selected by the candidate.
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