Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve (Buffer)

About Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve (Buffer)

The Buffer surrounds the protected core. Tiger sightings are still common but slots are usually easier to come by than the Core. Tadoba Buffer also offers a Mid-Day session in addition to Morning and Afternoon.

Gates: 17 across the buffer
Sessions per day: Morning, Afternoon, Mid-Day
Best season: Oct – Jun
Nearest city: Chandrapur / Nagpur

Gates: Agarzari · Dewada · Adegaon · Junona · Navegaon Ramdegi · Nimdhela · Kolara Chauradeo · Belara · Shirkheda · Madnapur · Alizanza · Palasgaon · Pangadi Aswal Chuha · Keslaghat · Zari Peth · Somnath · Mamla

Tap any green slot to book it on WhatsApp. We confirm the gate, date and session in one chat.

Available Waitlist / RAC Booked ClosedM = morning · A = afternoon · MD = mid-day

17 gates · 30 days

Gate	Sat17Oct	Sun18Oct	Mon19Oct	Tue20Oct	Wed21Oct	Thu22Oct	Fri23Oct	Sat24Oct	Sun25Oct	Mon26Oct	Tue27Oct	Wed28Oct	Thu29Oct	Fri30Oct	Sat31Oct	Sun01Nov	Mon02Nov	Tue03Nov	Wed04Nov	Thu05Nov	Fri06Nov	Sat07Nov	Sun08Nov	Mon09Nov	Tue10Nov	Wed11Nov	Thu12Nov	Fri13Nov	Sat14Nov	Sun15Nov
AgarzariBuffer	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	Gate Closed	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	Gate Closed	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	M✕A✕	Gate Closed	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	M✕A✕	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	M✕A✕	Gate Closed	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	M✕A✕
DewadaBuffer	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	Gate Closed	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	Gate Closed	M✕A✕	M✕A✕	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLA3	MWLAWL	Gate Closed	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	M✕A✕	MWLAWL	M✕A✕	Gate Closed	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL
AdegaonBuffer	M✕A✕	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	Gate Closed	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	Gate Closed	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLA5	MWLAWL	Gate Closed	M✕A✕	M✕A✕	M✕A✕	MWLAWL	M✕A✕	MWLAWL	Gate Closed	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	M✕A✕
JunonaBuffer	MWLAWL	M✕A✕	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	Gate Closed	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	Gate Closed	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	M✕A✕	M✕A✕	M✕A✕	MWLAWL	Gate Closed	M✕A✕	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	M✕A✕	M✕A✕	MWLAWL	Gate Closed	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL
Navegaon RamdegiBuffer	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLA1	Gate Closed	M6 A3	M3AWL	MWLAWL	MWLA6	M1 A4	MWLA1	Gate Closed	M5 A5	M5 A3	MWLAWL	MWLA4	M4 A2	M6 A5	Gate Closed	M6 A5	M6 A5	M6 A5	M5AWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	Gate Closed	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL
NimdhelaBuffer	MWLA5	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLA4	Gate Closed	M5 A4	M4AWL	M1AWL	M✕A3	M5 A6	MWLA6	Gate Closed	M6 A5	M5 A2	M5AWL	M4 A4	M6 A5	M5 A4	Gate Closed	M6 A5	M6 A6	M5 A6	M5 A6	M3AWL	MWLAWL	Gate Closed	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLA2
Kolara ChauradeoBuffer	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	Gate Closed	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	Gate Closed	M3 A2	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	M✕A✕	MWLAWL	Gate Closed	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	Gate Closed	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL
BelaraBuffer	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	Gate Closed	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	Gate Closed	M4 A3	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	M✕A3	MWLA5	Gate Closed	M4 A3	M5AWL	M2 A2	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	Gate Closed	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL
ShirkhedaBuffer	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	Gate Closed	MWLA1	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLA2	M2 A4	M1 A2	Gate Closed	M6 A6	M3AWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	M4 A4	M5 A6	Gate Closed	M6 A6	M6 A5	M6 A6	M2 A6	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	Gate Closed	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL
MadnapurBuffer	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	Gate Closed	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	Gate Closed	M4AWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	M✕A✕	Gate Closed	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	M✕A✕	M✕A✕	Gate Closed	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL
AlizanzaBuffer	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	Gate Closed	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	M1AWL	MWLAWL	Gate Closed	M6 A4	M3AWL	MWLAWL	M✕A✕	MWLA1	MWLA2	Gate Closed	M6 A5	M1AWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	Gate Closed	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL
PalasgaonBuffer	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLA2	Gate Closed	M6 A6	M4AWL	MWLAWL	MWLA4	M6 A6	MWLA6	Gate Closed	M6 A6	M3AWL	M6AWL	M4 A5	M6 A6	M6 A6	Gate Closed	M6 A6	M6 A6	M6 A6	M6 A6	M3 A3	MWLAWL	Gate Closed	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLA5
Pangadi Aswal ChuhaBuffer	M4 A6	MWLA2	M2 A5	M6 A5	Gate Closed	M6 A6	M5 A4	M3AWL	M3 A6	M6 A6	M6 A6	Gate Closed	M6 A6	M6 A6	M5 A6	M6 A6	M6 A6	M6 A6	Gate Closed	M6 A6	M6 A6	M6 A6	M6 A6	M6 A6	MWLAWL	Gate Closed	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	M2 A3
KeslaghatBuffer	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLA2	Gate Closed	MWLA3	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLA3	M4 A5	M4 A5	Gate Closed	M4 A4	M2AWL	M1AWL	M2AWL	M4 A6	M5 A6	Gate Closed	M6 A4	M5 A6	M6 A5	M5AWL	M6AWL	MWLAWL	Gate Closed	MWLAWL	M✕A✕	MWLAWL	MWLAWL
Zari PethBuffer	MWLAWL	M✕A✕	MWLAWL	M3 A5	Gate Closed	M2 A4	MWLA5	MWLA5	M2 A3	M6 A5	M5 A6	Gate Closed	M6 A6	M5 A5	M4 A4	M4 A4	M1 A6	M5 A6	Gate Closed	M6 A6	M6 A6	M6 A6	M6 A6	M4AWL	MWLAWL	Gate Closed	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLA1
SomnathBuffer	M1 A3	MWLAWL	M1 A2	M3 A6	Gate Closed	M5 A3	MWLAWL	M2AWL	M2 A5	M6 A5	M6 A4	Gate Closed	M5 A6	M6 A2	M5 A6	M4 A6	M6 A6	M6 A6	Gate Closed	M6 A6	M6 A6	M6 A6	M6 A6	M5AWL	MWLAWL	Gate Closed	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	M1AWL
MamlaBuffer	M✕A✕	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLA2	Gate Closed	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	MWLAWL	M1 A3	MWLA3	Gate Closed	M3 A4	M1 A1	M1 A3	MWLAWL	M✕A2	MWLAWL	Gate Closed	M3 A4	M1 A4	M3 A4	M✕A5	M3AWL	MWLAWL	Gate Closed	MWLAWL	M✕A✕	M✕A✕	MWLAWL

Plan your visit to Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve (Buffer)

Best time to visit

Open October to June, and several buffer zones stay open through the monsoon when the core is closed. Summer (April to June) still gives the strongest sightings, while winter is the easier season to travel in.

How to reach

Reach the buffer gates via Chandrapur (rail, about 45 km) or Nagpur airport (around 140 km). Most buffer gates are short drives from the same resorts and homestays that serve the core.

Before you book

Buffer gates are closed on Wednesdays.
The buffer runs an extra Mid-Day session on top of Morning and Afternoon, so there are more slots to grab.
Availability is usually easier than the core, and tiger sightings are still common.
The same 120-day advance and roughly 3-day Tatkal windows apply, and the photo ID must match the booking.

Frequently asked

How do I find an available safari slot quickly?

Use the Reserve dropdown to focus on one park, then scan the matrix for green pills. Those are the gate, date and session combinations with vehicles still available, and the number on each pill is how many vehicles are still open.

What do the colours and labels mean?

Green with a number: vehicles still available, and the number is how many.
Amber "WL": Reservation Against Cancellation or Waitlist. You can register and take a slot if a booking is cancelled.
Red "✕": fully booked.
Grey "Gate Closed": that gate is not operating that day. When both morning and afternoon are closed, the cell shows one combined label.

How do I see different dates on a phone?

Swipe the matrix left or right. The Gate column on the left stays in place while you scroll through the date columns, so you always know which gate you are looking at.

Can I narrow the matrix down to just what I want?

Yes. Use the filters above the matrix to pick a Reserve, a specific Date, a Status (e.g. only Available), or type part of a gate name. Cells that do not match a Status filter are dimmed instead of removed, so you keep your bearings.

What do M and A in each cell mean?

M is the morning safari session, A is the afternoon session. Most parks run two sessions per day. The pills on top show morning, the ones below show afternoon.

Which gate should I pick for the best chance of a tiger?

The Recent sightings section ranks every reporting gate by how many animals were logged there over the last 30 days, next to how many of those days produced a sighting at all. Consistency and volume are different things: a gate can post a big total from two exceptional drives while another produces something on most days. The ranking refreshes with the data, so read the top rows rather than relying on a gate's reputation.

Should I book a morning or an evening safari?

Every gate in the sightings ranking has a Best drive column worked out from where that gate's own sightings actually came from. It only names a drive when one side leads the other by a clear margin, and says Both when the split is close. The difference can be large: some buffer gates produce roughly twice as much in the evening as they do at dawn.

What do the green squares in the day-by-day grid mean?

Each square is one gate on one day, and every chip inside it is one sighting: the name of the animal where the guide identified one, otherwise the species. A tigress seen with her cubs reads as her name and a +4 badge, so a family stays one sighting instead of five. Where a day holds more sightings than fit, a +n chip closes the cell; click it to open the rest in place, and hover the square for the full morning and evening breakdown. Darker green means more separate sightings that day, on a fixed scale so a quiet month cannot repaint two sightings as a busy day. A pale empty square means nothing was logged.

How accurate are the sighting counts?

They are a record of what was reported from safari drives, not a census. A gate with no entry on a day may still have had animals; it only means nothing was reported. Counts are read conservatively, so a report naming a tigress with four cubs counts as five animals while an unnumbered mention of cubs counts as one.

What is the difference between Core and Buffer zones?

Core zones are the strictly protected interior of the reserve where only limited safari activity is permitted. Buffer zones surround the core and have mixed-use forest with safari access. Tiger sightings are still common, and slots are usually easier to get.