GATE 2027 in Gangtok: Sikkim's Only Exam City, Zone Rules and Travel

Sikkim has a single line on the GATE 2027 exam-city list: Gangtok, under the IIT Guwahati zone. Whether you live in Gangtok itself, in Namchi, Mangan or Gyalshing, this is the only Sikkim city you can ask for.

The Gangtok district administration describes Gangtok as the capital of the state and the headquarters of the district. The list gives no centre addresses, so wait for the admit card before you assume where in the city you will sit.

From the official page, the rules for choosing:

1. You choose six cities.
2. All six must be from one zone.
3. The list is tentative, and GATE may add or drop a city.
4. GATE may allot a city outside your six.

GATE 2027 is held only in India.

Because Sikkim offers one name, the other five come from elsewhere in the zone. Start with what you can reach by road.

The district's travel page says Gangtok is linked by road with Darjeeling, Kalimpong and Siliguri. Of those three, only Siliguri is an exam city; Darjeeling and Kalimpong are not on the list. So Siliguri is the natural second choice.

After that the zone gets wide. West Bengal adds Kalyani, Durgapur, Asansol and Burdwan. Bihar has Purnea, Patna, Bhagalpur and Muzaffarpur. To the east are Guwahati, Shillong, Silchar and the other north-eastern cities, Naharlagun, Papum pare, Dimapur-Kohima and Agartala among them.

A starting order for someone living in Gangtok:

1. Gangtok
2. Siliguri
3. Kalyani
4. Guwahati
5. Shillong
6. Durgapur

Change positions three to six to suit places where you have a bed for the night. Gangtok at the top shows what you would like; it does not lock the city in.

West Bengal is split between two zones, and that matters to anyone from Sikkim who studies in the plains.

On the list	Zone	With Gangtok?
Siliguri, Kalyani, Durgapur, Asansol, Burdwan	IIT Guwahati	Yes
Kolkata, Howrah, Hooghly, Berhampore	IIT Kharagpur	No
Guwahati, Shillong, Silchar, Agartala	IIT Guwahati	Yes
Purnea, Patna, Bhagalpur, Muzaffarpur	IIT Guwahati	Yes
New Delhi	IIT Delhi	No
Bengaluru North, Bengaluru South	IISc	No

If you are at college in Kolkata, you either fill an IIT Kharagpur list around the city (the Kolkata page covers it) or come home and keep Gangtok. Kalyani is the useful exception: it is near Kolkata but filed under IIT Guwahati, so it can sit on a Gangtok form. See the Kalyani page. Students in Delhi or Bengaluru face the same either-or; the Delhi and Bengaluru pages explain those zones.

Registration has closed. A change of cities now depends on the paid data correction window, which the dates page shows as TBA.

Allotment notices come on 4 January 2027. A candidate from the plains who gets Gangtok should plan the trip up with time to spare.

The district's travel page gives these figures:

• Pakyong airport is about 32 km from Gangtok.
• Bagdogra airport is 124.5 km away, about 4 hours by road.
• The nearest railway stations are Siliguri (113 km) and New Jalpaiguri (125 km).
• Sikkim Nationalised Transport buses run from Siliguri bus stand, roughly a 5 to 6 hour trip, and taxis can be booked at the airport or stations.

A hill road of that length is not something to start on the morning of the exam. Reach Gangtok the day before, find your centre, and keep the evening free. The district's weather page notes that the minimum temperatures fall in December and January, so carry warm clothes for a February morning.

The admit card date is TBA. When it appears, check the centre address and the reporting time. If you are writing DA and CS together, the two-paper page says the second paper's centre may differ from the first but stays in the same city.

Bring the printed admit card, the original photo ID you entered on your form, and anything else the admit card names.

Step	Date
Scrutiny defects fixed without fee	until 30 November 2026
City allotment notification	4 January 2027
Exams	6, 7, 13, 14, 20, 21 February 2027
Results	19 March 2027

All dates may change, says the official dates page. Exam-city questions go to IIT Guwahati, the zone's coordinating institute: Guwahati 781 039, gate@iitg.ac.in, 0361-2582751. For the portal and papers, contact IIT Madras, which organises GATE 2027: helpdesk@gate.iitm.ac.in, 044-22578200.

NIT Sikkim is the state's GATE institute, but it is not in Gangtok. Its contact page gives the address as Barfung Block, Ravangla Sub-Division, District Namchi, Sikkim 737139. Its campus page says it works from a temporary campus at Ravangla while a permanent campus at Khamdong is under construction. The GATEiit page explains its GATE routes for DA and CS candidates.

If you study at NIT Sikkim, note that Namchi district has no exam-city entry; within Sikkim, Gangtok is the only option.

Elsewhere in the zone, GATEiit has pages for IIT Guwahati, IIIT Guwahati, IIIT Kalyani and NIT Durgapur. The full list is at /institutes. Where you write GATE has no effect on admission anywhere.

GATEiit is free and online. It has no office or classroom in Gangtok or anywhere else.

Begin with your paper's page, GATE DA or GATE CSE, for the syllabus and the WhatsApp group. Past papers are on /pyq and topic-wise sets on /practice. The GATE DA 2027 guide and GATE CSE 2027 guide set out a plan; /guides has more.

Each of the six exam days is a Saturday or Sunday, so keep weekend mornings for full mocks. The GATE 2027 page and the exam-city overview cover the national picture, and the Guwahati and Shillong pages show the zone from other cities.