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Cricket & Sports Chandigarh (Sector 16 Stadium)

Chandigarh, Chandigarh, India

3.9 (0)

Overview

The city's sporting heart — the Sector 16 cricket stadium and hockey grounds, the sports complex and the athletics culture of a young, fit city.

Why visit: Catch match-day Chandigarh in its home grounds.

Things to do

›Sector 16 stadium
›Hockey grounds
›Sports complex
›Match-day buzz

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Travel Information

Best time

Oct–Mar (season)

Entry fee

Match-based

Est. budget

₹100–800

Duration

Match day

Nearby attractions

Within

0.7 km

📍 Nature

4.1

Shanti Kunj, Sector 16

Chandigarh, Chandigarh

A serene valley garden of themed sections along a stream — the city's designated 'garden of peace' for quiet walks and morning yoga.

Oct–Mar; mornings1 hrExplore

0.8 km

💎 Hidden Gem📍 Heritage

4.3

Chandigarh Heritage Sector Walk (Corbusier Grid)

Chandigarh, Chandigarh

The planned city itself as a monument — the sector grid, the 'Edict of Chandigarh', modernist housing typologies and the tree-lined V-road hierarchy Corbusier devised.

Oct–MarHalf dayExplore

0.8 km

📍 Nature

4.2

Leisure Valley & Rajendra Park

Chandigarh, Chandigarh

The 8-km green spine Corbusier ran through the city — a seasonal-garden ribbon linking Rajendra Park, the fitness trails and open-air sculpture lawns.

Oct–Mar; mornings1–2 hrsExplore

0.8 km

🍲 Local Experience

4.3

Sector 17 Plaza & Fountain

Chandigarh, Chandigarh

The pedestrian civic heart Corbusier designed as the 'city centre' — colonnaded shopping arcades, the neon fountain, showrooms and the Neelam-plaza buzz.

Year-round; eveningsHalf dayExplore

0.8 km

💎 Hidden Gem📍 Museum

4.1

National Gallery of Portraits, Sector 17

Chandigarh, Chandigarh

A gallery of paintings, photographs and busts of India's freedom fighters and national leaders, with a research library, in the Sector 17 civic heart.

Year-round (closed Mon)1 hrExplore

1 km

💎 Hidden Gem📍 Museum

4.0

Natural History Museum, Sector 10

Chandigarh, Chandigarh

Dioramas of evolution, prehistoric life, dinosaur models and regional flora-and-fauna galleries — the science annexe of the Sector 10 museum campus.

Year-round (closed Mon)1 hrExplore

1 km

📍 Museum

4.4

Government Museum & Art Gallery, Sector 10

Chandigarh, Chandigarh

A Corbusier-designed museum holding Gandharan Buddhist sculpture from Partition-divided Lahore, Pahari miniatures and modern Indian art.

Year-round (closed Mon)2 hrsExplore

1.1 km

💎 Hidden Gem📍 Museum

4.2

City Museum (Architecture Museum), Sector 10

Chandigarh, Chandigarh

The story of Chandigarh's creation — original master-plans, letters, photographs and models of the Corbusier team's making of independent India's first planned city.

Year-round (closed Mon)1–2 hrsExplore

1.2 km

📍 Nature

4.5

Zakir Hussain Rose Garden, Sector 16

Chandigarh, Chandigarh

Asia's largest rose garden — 50,000 bushes of 1,600 varieties across 30 acres, exploding into colour and scent for the February Rose Festival.

Nov–Mar; Rose Festival (Feb)1–2 hrsExplore

1.2 km

📍 Festival

4.4

Rose Festival & City Beautiful Events

Chandigarh, Chandigarh

The city's calendar of colour — February's Rose Festival at the rose garden, the Chandigarh Carnival, the Mango Mela and Chrysanthemum Show through the year.

Feb (Rose Festival); events year-round1–2 daysExplore

1.3 km

💎 Hidden Gem🛕 Religious

4.0

Christ Church & St Joseph's, Sector 18/19

Chandigarh, Chandigarh

The city's modernist churches — clean-lined 1960s design, stained glass and Christmas-lit facades in the central sectors.

Year-round; Christmas1 hrExplore

1.5 km

📍 Shopping

4.1

Sector 22 Shastri Market

Chandigarh, Chandigarh

The city's oldest bustling bazaar — export-surplus fashion, street food, phones and the everyday shopping rhythm of Chandigarh's first sectors.

Year-round2–3 hrsExplore