Best Shopping Places in Ahmedabad for Clothes: 2026 Guide

Looking for the best shopping places in Ahmedabad for clothes? Go to Law Garden for Navratri chaniya choli, Ratanpol for wedding shopping and Dhalgarwad for fabric. For cheap street shopping, go to Teen Darwaza and Lal Darwaja. For dress material and kurtis in bulk, go to Sindhi Market or Ghantakarna Mahavir Market. For branded clothes, go to Palladium mall, CG Road or Sindhu Bhavan Road.

Ahmedabad has shopped in the same streets for six hundred years. Ahmed Shah founded the city in 1411, and the old city’s lanes still sort themselves by trade: one street for fabric, one for bridal wear, one for bandhani. This guide covers 13 places: what each one sells, where it is, when to go and how to get a good price.

Best shopping places in Ahmedabad at a glance

Best market in Ahmedabad for clothes: quick picks

• Navratri and garba outfits: Law Garden and Rani no Hajiro.
• Wedding shopping: Ratanpol for bridal lehengas and sarees.
• Cheapest clothes: Teen Darwaza, Lal Darwaja and the Sunday Ravivari.
• Ladies’ kurtis and dress material in bulk: Sindhi Market in Revdi Bazaar, and Ghantakarna Mahavir Market.
• Fabric to get stitched: Dhalgarwad.
• Branded clothes: Palladium mall, CG Road and Sindhu Bhavan Road.
• On a Sunday: Ravivari, on the riverfront.

Law Garden market: best for Navratri chaniya choli

The most famous place in the city to buy Navratri wear. Stalls line the walls of Law Garden every evening, selling ready chaniya choli, mirror work and embroidery from Kutch and Saurashtra, oxidised jewellery and wall hangings. Stalls set up around dusk and trade until about 11 pm, busiest after 8 pm. It is a hawkers’ market with no permanent shops, so bargain. Full guide: Law Garden Market, Ahmedabad: History and Shopping Guide.

Ratanpole market: best for bridal wear and sarees

The old city’s bridal street, between Gandhi Road and Relief Road. Shops packed into old pol houses sell wedding lehengas, silk and bandhani sarees and festive chaniya choli, much of it wholesale. In the 17th century the street was called Kothari Pathak. Go on a weekday in the daytime, and combine it with Rani no Hajiro close by. Full guide: Ratanpol Market, Ahmedabad.

Teen Darwaza and Bhadra market: best for cheap shopping

The market in front of the three-arched gate Ahmed Shah finished in 1415, and around Bhadra Fort. Bandhani sarees and dupattas, everyday clothes, footwear, children’s wear and accessories, at the lowest prices in the city. Crowded, loud and best on a weekday. Full guide: Teen Darwaza and Bhadra Market.

Lal Darwaja market: best for cheap street shopping

Right next to Bhadra and Teen Darwaza, around the Lal Darwaja bus terminus. Hawkers and small shops sell bandhani sarees, chaniya choli, everyday clothes for the whole family, footwear and bags. It is open most of the day, roughly 11 am to 10 pm, and always busy. Go in the morning or late afternoon to miss the worst of the crowd, bargain, and walk on to Teen Darwaza in the same trip.

Dhalgarwad market: best for fabric

Ahmedabad’s fabric street, near Bhadra Plaza: over five hundred shops of dress material, sarees, cotton and silk by the metre, bandhani, bed linen and towels. The place to buy cloth you want stitched. Full guide: Dhalgarwad Market, Ahmedabad.

Sindhi Market (Revdi Bazaar): best for wholesale dress material and kurtis

In Revdi Bazaar, Kalupur, near the old city’s eastern gates. One of the older cloth markets in the city, selling sarees, dress material, kurtis, bandhani and mirror work, bedsheets and cushion covers, both wholesale and retail. Revdi Bazaar is where shopkeepers come to buy kurtis in bulk. Most shops open about 11 am and close around 10 pm. Wholesale shops may ask for a minimum quantity, so ask before you choose.

Ghantakarna Mahavir Market: best for wholesale ladies’ dress material

A commercial market in Sarangpur, near New Cloth Market. Shops sell unstitched dress material, silk, cotton and rayon fabric, printed and bandhani sarees and kurtis, mostly wholesale. Shops keep roughly 10 am to 9 pm, and many close on Sunday. A good choice if you are buying for a shop, a family wedding or a whole garba group.

Rani no Hajiro market: best for women’s clothes and jewellery

A women’s clothing and jewellery market around the 15th-century tombs of the Gujarat Sultanate’s queens, near Manek Chowk. Everyday wear, garba outfits and accessories. Full guide: Rani no Hajiro Market.

Manek Chowk: best for jewellery

The old city’s jewellery square: gold, silver and bullion through the day, imitation jewellery in the lanes around it, and the city’s best-known late-night food once the jewellers close. Full guide: Manek Chowk Jewellery Market.

Ravivari market: best for second-hand bargains

The Sunday market on the Sabarmati riverfront, started by Ahmed Shah in 1414. Second-hand clothes, antiques, books and almost anything else, cheaply. Go early on Sunday for the best pick, before the heat and the crowds. Full guide: Ravivari Market, Ahmedabad.

Malls and branded stores in Ahmedabad: Palladium, CG Road, Sindhu Bhavan Road

For branded clothes with fixed prices and trial rooms, head west. Palladium Ahmedabad, in Thaltej on SG Highway, opened in 2023 and has H&M, Biba, Indya, Jaypore, Vero Moda, Only and many more. CG Road in Navrangpura is the city’s older high street of showrooms. Sindhu Bhavan Road has designer boutiques and ethnic-wear stores such as Biba and Neelgar. Ahmedabad’s shopping festival names both CG Road and Sindhu Bhavan Road among its main shopping districts.

Street shopping tips for Ahmedabad markets

• Bargain in the street markets. Start well below the first price and settle in the middle.
• Carry cash as well as UPI: not every stall takes UPI.
• Check the stitching, the inside seams and the colour in daylight before you pay.
• Ready chaniya choli come in a few fixed sizes. Ask whether the choli has margin to let out, and budget for a tailor.
• Go on a weekday if you can, and early in the Navratri season, before the rush.
• Parking in the old city is hard. An auto rickshaw, or a bus to Lal Darwaja, is easier.
• Keep your phone and bag close in the crowds at Teen Darwaza and Lal Darwaja.

Market or tailor-made: which is better?

Markets win on price, choice and the fun of it. What they cannot do is fit you: ready pieces come in standard sizes, and a heavily worked choli is hard to alter. If you want a chaniya choli or blouse cut to your own measurements, or a market find altered to fit, that is what a studio is for. At Haggler Studio in Shela we stitch to measure and alter what you already own, including pieces bought in these markets. See custom stitching and alterations, or where to buy chaniya choli in Ahmedabad.