Which district in Chennai is cheapest to stay in?

Districts ranked by median asking price

In Chennai, Old Mahabalipuram Road & East Coast Road asks a median $59 a night, +104% against $29 in Tambaram, the cheapest of 5 districts compared on the same 77 nights.

• A district is the area name Agoda gives a place (the first part of its address line), not an official boundary; names are printed as Agoda writes them, without a leading district number.
• A night counts for a district when at least 5 of its places showed a price.
• Every district is compared on the same 77 nights, the ones on which all of them counted: districts join in order of nights counted, and one that would leave fewer than 42 shared nights is left out rather than compared on other nights. A district's figure is the median of its nightly medians over those nights, and the middle half is the median of the nightly 25th and 75th percentiles.
• Places: every place in the district priced on those nights. Guest score: the median Agoda review score (out of 10) of those places, places scored in brackets. 4–5★: the share of the places with a star rating that hold 4 stars or more.

A dash means fewer than 5 of the district's places carry a score or a star rating. Many-star hotels cluster in a few districts, so a district's median also says which kind of places stand there.

Cheapest district with a guest score of 8 or more

The cheapest district in Chennai whose places hold a median guest score of 8 or more is Tambaram: a median $29 a night, score 8.1 across 18 scored places.

Guest scores are Agoda's review scores out of 10; a score says nothing about the price.

Friday and Saturday against Monday to Thursday, by district

The biggest weekend difference in Chennai is in Poonamallee: Friday and Saturday nights ask a median $32 against $30 Monday to Thursday (+6%), over 24 and 43 nights.

The town page's weekend rule, district by district, over the ranking's 77 shared nights: Sunday nights sit in neither group, and a district needs at least 3 nights on each side.

What was measured

Nights measured in Chennai: 84, from 13 November 2026 to 4 February 2027; each with at least 30 places showing a price.

• Up to 208 places checked per night; a place with no price that night (sold out or closed) is counted but carries no price.
• Places with an Agoda area name: 296 of the 296 priced on these nights; only those are placed in a district.
• Prices in USD, as shown on the day each night was read, on 7 November 2026.
• Asking prices seen while searching for one night: not prices paid, and not a forecast.