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1 World of Hyatt point is worth ₹1.50 in India.

₹1.50

a night from 3,000 points — ₹1,500 per 1,000 at our mark

₹1.50 · first marked 22 Jul 2026, never re-marked since

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How we got this ₹ figure

₹1.50 is our HOUSE value for a point — what a disciplined traveller actually clears, not the best redemption we have ever seen (₹2.50, the ceiling) and not the worst you can always fall back on (₹0.80, the floor). It is the number every route on this page is priced with.

We hold one dated point for World of Hyatt — the mark itself. There is no earlier valuation on our record, so this page shows no trend line rather than drawing one. How we value a point →

No Indian card on our board earns World of Hyatt, and no currency we track transfers into it. We carry the programme for its valuation and its nerf record, not because a card reaches it. Every programme we price →

TPG's July-2026 table holds Hyatt at 1.6¢ — the strongest hotel currency after Accor's fixed peg (≈₹1.50 at ₹95/USD). 20 airline exits, all bad: Hyatt's official table converts at 1,250:500 (2.5:1, ~27% retained) with six published exceptions — Aeroplan 2:1, Aeroméxico 5:4, Air China 5:3.2, Virgin Atlantic 5:3, Qantas and Southwest 5:2.4 — plus a 5,000-mile bonus per 50,000 points converted in one transaction. Aeroplan→Hyatt 2:1 is the only way IN and it is ELITE-gated. No Indian card touches Hyatt directly; a stay-earned balance is the realistic way in, and a free night from 3,000 points beats every conversion above.

To Virgin Atlantic Flying Club₹0.605:3 (a month or more)

best way out — what one point is worth once it lands , at the base rate before any volume bonus

World of Hyatt is worth watching — we grade its nerf risk watch 1 cut in 24 months — latest: May-2026 devaluation (major) How we grade it →

₹0.80
Floor
₹1.50
House value / point
₹2.50
Ceiling
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Trend

Expiry: activity-based — points forfeit after 24 consecutive months without earn or redeem

Award guide How to actually redeem World of Hyatt — 2 sweet spots from India, priced in real ₹/pt →

No corridor on our board prices a seat in World of Hyatt against a published chart — every option that reaches it is dynamic, and an estimate is not a seat. the 2,196 corridors that DO have a verified price →

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World of Hyatt — the transfer routes in and outAir Canada Aeroplan2:1 · elite-gatedVirgin Atlantic Flying Club5:3 +bonusAir China PhoenixMiles5:3.2 +bonusSouthwest Rapid Rewards5:2.4 +bonusAir Canada Aeroplan2:1 +bonusAeroméxico Rewards5:4 +bonusQantas Frequent Flyer5:2.4 +bonusSingapore Airlines KrisFlyer2.5:1 +bonusJapan Airlines Mileage Bank2.5:1 +bonusAmerican Airlines AAdvantage2.5:1 +bonusAir France-KLM Flying Blue2.5:1 +bonusANA Mileage Club2.5:1 +bonusCathay Asia Miles2.5:1 +bonusWorld of Hyatt1 in · 20 out

This drawing wants a wide screen. Every route it draws is in the lists below, priced.

+8 more out — every route is listed below, and drawn on the map.

Every way out

Ranked by real ₹ per point at our house values — the play first, the traps last. Ratios read World of Hyatt points : partner miles.

Ways out via partner transfer

Program-to-program corridors — World of Hyatt moved onward without a bank card in the loop. Priced at the destination's house ₹/point (volume bonuses at the marginal block rate); destinations we refuse to fake a ₹ number for say so.

5:3 (a month or more)
Virgin Atlantic Flying Club allow 6 to 8 weeks for processing — A month or more issuer-published· 5 Aug — The card issuer states this window in its own document.
5,000 bonus miles per 50,000 points transferred in a single transaction
min 5,000 Hyatt points per transaction, then 1,250-point increments
5,000 points → 3,000 Virgin Points, the strongest published exception at ~40% retained. The one Hyatt exit that lands somewhere worth landing — Virgin's partner gems, ANA premium cabins above all — and Virgin Points stopped expiring in 2020, so a converted balance keeps.
₹0.60 /pt
5:3.2 (a month or more)
Air China PhoenixMiles allow 6 to 8 weeks for processing — A month or more issuer-published· 5 Aug — The card issuer states this window in its own document.
5,000 bonus miles per 50,000 points transferred in a single transaction
min 5,000 Hyatt points per transaction, then 1,250-point increments
5,000 points → 3,200 PhoenixMiles, one of Hyatt's five published exceptions. ~38% retained — the best ratio on the table after Virgin Atlantic, and the only Star Alliance exception on it.
₹0.58 /pt
5:2.4 (a month or more)
Southwest Rapid Rewards allow 6 to 8 weeks for processing — A month or more issuer-published· 5 Aug — The card issuer states this window in its own document.
5,000 bonus miles per 50,000 points transferred in a single transaction
min 5,000 Hyatt points per transaction, then 1,250-point increments
5,000 points → 2,400 Rapid Rewards points, a published exception. Rapid Rewards is a revenue peg with no partners and no international network, so ~38% of the Hyatt point survives and it can only buy a US domestic seat.
₹0.58 /pt
2:1 (a month or more)
Air Canada Aeroplan allow 6 to 8 weeks for processing — A month or more issuer-published· 5 Aug — The card issuer states this window in its own document.
5,000 bonus miles per 50,000 points transferred in a single transaction
min 5,000 Hyatt points per transaction
Hyatt's best airline exit and the only one open to a non-elite Indian reader with a stay-earned balance: ₹1.50 of Hyatt buys ₹0.50 of Aeroplan (~33%, or ~42% once the 50,000-point block bonus lands). Hyatt's own Aeroplan page confirms the 2:1 and the 5,000-point minimum and says account linking is NOT required — the July-2026 launch coverage that first carried this row is now superseded by the issuer page.
₹0.50 /pt
5:4 (a month or more)
Aeroméxico Rewards allow 6 to 8 weeks for processing — A month or more issuer-published· 5 Aug — The card issuer states this window in its own document.
5,000 bonus miles per 50,000 points transferred in a single transaction
min 5,000 Hyatt points per transaction, then 1,250-point increments
Hyatt's most generous printed block — 5,000 points for 4,000 — and it still only returns ~32%, because Aeroméxico marks at ₹0.60. Hyatt's table still says 'kilometers', the retired Club Premier wording; the programme issues Aeroméxico Rewards points today. We quote the published block, not the label.
₹0.48 /pt
15 more partner-transfer corridors out — same ranking
5:2.4 (a month or more)
Qantas Frequent Flyer allow 6 to 8 weeks for processing — A month or more issuer-published· 5 Aug — The card issuer states this window in its own document.
5,000 bonus miles per 50,000 points transferred in a single transaction
min 5,000 Hyatt points per transaction, then 1,250-point increments
5,000 points → 2,400 Qantas points (~32%), a published exception to the 2.5:1 default. Qantas prices its own award chart in bands, so this is a top-up valve for a nearly-there Classic Reward, never a plan.
₹0.48 /pt
2.5:1 (a month or more)
Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer allow 6 to 8 weeks for processing — A month or more issuer-published· 5 Aug — The card issuer states this window in its own document.
5,000 bonus miles per 50,000 points transferred in a single transaction
min 5,000 Hyatt points per transaction, then 1,250-point increments
The default 2.5:1. Pointless for an Indian reader with a card that already feeds KrisFlyer directly at 1:1 or 2:1 — burn the Hyatt points on a night instead. Real only for a stay-earned Hyatt balance you will never sleep on.
₹0.44 /pt
2.5:1 (a month or more)
Japan Airlines Mileage Bank allow 6 to 8 weeks for processing — A month or more issuer-published· 5 Aug — The card issuer states this window in its own document.
5,000 bonus miles per 50,000 points transferred in a single transaction
min 5,000 Hyatt points per transaction, then 1,250-point increments
The default 2.5:1 into a ₹1.10 mile — ~29%, marginally above the table average, and JAL is another program no Indian card reaches directly. oneworld Japan business is the draw.
₹0.44 /pt
2.5:1 (a month or more)
American Airlines AAdvantage allow 6 to 8 weeks for processing — A month or more issuer-published· 5 Aug — The card issuer states this window in its own document.
5,000 bonus miles per 50,000 points transferred in a single transaction
min 5,000 Hyatt points per transaction, then 1,250-point increments
Hyatt's headline airline partnership — the air-auto page leads with AAdvantage — but the conversion takes the plain 2.5:1 default, no exception. AAdvantage has zero direct Indian on-ramp, so every door is a hotel hop; Bonvoy's flat 3:1 beats this one on rate, and Hyatt only wins if the Hyatt balance is the one that is stranded.
₹0.40 /pt
2.5:1 (a month or more)
Air France-KLM Flying Blue allow 6 to 8 weeks for processing — A month or more issuer-published· 5 Aug — The card issuer states this window in its own document.
5,000 bonus miles per 50,000 points transferred in a single transaction
min 5,000 Hyatt points per transaction, then 1,250-point increments
The default 2.5:1 — ~27% retained. Flying Blue is already the most over-served program in the Indian graph; this is a stranded-balance valve, not a route.
₹0.40 /pt
2.5:1 (a month or more)
ANA Mileage Club allow 6 to 8 weeks for processing — A month or more issuer-published· 5 Aug — The card issuer states this window in its own document.
5,000 bonus miles per 50,000 points transferred in a single transaction
min 5,000 Hyatt points per transaction, then 1,250-point increments
The default 2.5:1 into a program almost nothing in India reaches — that scarcity, not the ~27% rate, is the entire argument for doing it.
₹0.40 /pt
2.5:1 (a month or more)
Cathay Asia Miles allow 6 to 8 weeks for processing — A month or more issuer-published· 5 Aug — The card issuer states this window in its own document.
5,000 bonus miles per 50,000 points transferred in a single transaction
min 5,000 Hyatt points per transaction, then 1,250-point increments
The default 2.5:1 — ~27% retained. Cathay business to Hong Kong and Japan is the only redemption that makes the haircut survivable.
₹0.40 /pt
2.5:1 (a month or more)
Delta SkyMiles allow 6 to 8 weeks for processing — A month or more issuer-published· 5 Aug — The card issuer states this window in its own document.
5,000 bonus miles per 50,000 points transferred in a single transaction
min 5,000 Hyatt points per transaction, then 1,250-point increments
The default 2.5:1 into a fully dynamic, chartless program — you are trading a ₹1.50 point for a price Delta re-sets daily. The worst of both worlds unless the balance is already stranded.
₹0.40 /pt
2.5:1 (a month or more)
Etihad Guest allow 6 to 8 weeks for processing — A month or more issuer-published· 5 Aug — The card issuer states this window in its own document.
5,000 bonus miles per 50,000 points transferred in a single transaction
min 5,000 Hyatt points per transaction, then 1,250-point increments
The default 2.5:1 — ~27% retained. Etihad Guest is reachable from half the Indian premium wallet at 1:1; this hop only makes sense on a Hyatt balance you cannot spend on a night.
₹0.40 /pt
2.5:1 (a month or more)
Korean Air SKYPASS allow 6 to 8 weeks for processing — A month or more issuer-published· 5 Aug — The card issuer states this window in its own document.
5,000 bonus miles per 50,000 points transferred in a single transaction
min 5,000 Hyatt points per transaction, then 1,250-point increments
The default 2.5:1. SKYPASS keeps a real published chart, which is rarer every year — but at ~27% retention this is still a salvage move, not a strategy.
₹0.40 /pt
2.5:1 (a month or more)
Lufthansa Miles & More allow 6 to 8 weeks for processing — A month or more issuer-published· 5 Aug — The card issuer states this window in its own document.
5,000 bonus miles per 50,000 points transferred in a single transaction
min 5,000 Hyatt points per transaction, then 1,250-point increments
The default 2.5:1 — ~27% retained, and Miles & More's cash surcharges take another bite on the redemption side. Only for a stranded balance.
₹0.40 /pt
2.5:1 (a month or more)
Avios (BA / Qatar / Finnair) allow 6 to 8 weeks for processing — A month or more issuer-published· 5 Aug — The card issuer states this window in its own document.
listed as Qatar Airways Privilege Club (Avios)
5,000 bonus miles per 50,000 points transferred in a single transaction
min 5,000 Hyatt points per transaction, then 1,250-point increments
The default 2.5:1 into Qatar's Avios — which then move freely across the BA/Iberia/Finnair/Aer Lingus pool, so this is the most FUNGIBLE of Hyatt's exits even at ~27% retained.
₹0.40 /pt
2.5:1 (a month or more)
Thai Royal Orchid Plus allow 6 to 8 weeks for processing — A month or more issuer-published· 5 Aug — The card issuer states this window in its own document.
5,000 bonus miles per 50,000 points transferred in a single transaction
min 5,000 Hyatt points per transaction, then 1,250-point increments
The default 2.5:1, and Royal Orchid Plus miles die on a hard 3-year clock from accrual — convert only against a seat you have already found.
₹0.40 /pt
2.5:1 (a month or more)
United MileagePlus allow 6 to 8 weeks for processing — A month or more issuer-published· 5 Aug — The card issuer states this window in its own document.
5,000 bonus miles per 50,000 points transferred in a single transaction
min 5,000 Hyatt points per transaction, then 1,250-point increments
The default 2.5:1 into a program with no Indian card on-ramp and no expiry clock — the scarcity is the whole case, because ~27% retention certainly isn't.
₹0.40 /pt
2.5:1 (a month or more)
Emirates Skywards allow 6 to 8 weeks for processing — A month or more issuer-published· 5 Aug — The card issuer states this window in its own document.
5,000 bonus miles per 50,000 points transferred in a single transaction
min 5,000 Hyatt points per transaction, then 1,250-point increments
The default 2.5:1 into our lowest-marked major mile (₹0.90) — ~24% retained, the weakest exit on Hyatt's table. Indian cards feed Skywards directly and far better.
₹0.36 /pt

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Every tracked event that touches World of Hyatt.

  • 25 Aug 2026
    Partner moderate Vietnam Airlines
    Vietnam Airlines Lotusmiles opens a broad SkyTeam status match — up to Elite Plus
    No standing public status-match route from most Indian-held airline and hotel tiers into a SkyTeam Elite Plus card → A paid Lotusmiles status match accepting ~47 airline programmes (Air India Maharaja Club included) and 18 hotel chains, granting 12 months up to Platinum

    Lotusmiles will match tier status from roughly 47 airline programmes — Lufthansa, Swiss, Etihad, Emirates, BA, Qatar, Singapore, Qantas and Air India's Maharaja Club — plus 18 hotel chains (Marriott, Accor, Hilton, Hyatt, IHG, matched through Gold only), for a flat 12-month grant with no stated flying requirement. The SkyTeam translation is the point: Titanium and Gold confer SkyTeam Elite, and Platinum confers SkyTeam Elite Plus — priority everything plus a guest into SkyTeam lounges across the network. Priced USD 129–359 by tier matched. For an Indian reader sitting on an underused hotel or airline status, it is one of the cheaper routes to a year of Elite Plus; match near a renewal and treat it as a one-year sprint.

  • 1 Aug 2026
    Buff minor World of Hyatt
    Hyatt doubles dining points across Asia Pacific — India included
    5 World of Hyatt base points per eligible US$1 of food & beverage spend at participating hotels, plus the usual elite bonus → 10 points per US$1 (2X) on eligible F&B from 1 Aug to 30 Sep 2026 across India and Southwest Asia — US$10 minimum per transaction, up to 30,000 points per member for the campaign, no registration

    Hyatt's 'Made With Love. Served With Rewards.' campaign runs 1 August to 30 September 2026 and doubles the F&B rate to 10 World of Hyatt points per US$1 at participating hotels across India and Southwest Asia — the release names that region, not a wider Asia Pacific footprint, and does not publish a participating-property list we can reproduce. The 5-points-per-US$1 baseline it doubles comes from World of Hyatt's own programme terms rather than the release. At our ₹1.50 house value the full 10 points are worth ₹15 against roughly ₹95 of spend, so an Indian Hyatt dinner pays about 16% back in points during the window instead of the usual 8%, before elite bonuses. The cap is 30,000 points in total — roughly US$3,000 of eligible dining at the promotional rate, ₹45,000 of value at house — which nobody sane will hit. This matters more here than a dining promo normally would: no Indian credit card reaches World of Hyatt directly and the only way in is an elite-gated Aeroplan 2:1, so spending at the restaurant is one of the very few ways an Indian collector builds a Hyatt balance at all — and at 3,000 points for a free night, Hyatt points earned this cheaply are the best hotel currency on our index.

  • 20 May 2026
    Devaluation major World of Hyatt
    Hyatt's award chart grows two rungs and a 67% ceiling
    Three columns — off-peak, standard, peak. Category 1 at 3,500/5,000/6,500 points, category 8 at 35,000/40,000/45,000 → Five levels — Lowest, Low, Moderate, Upper, Top. Category 1 at 3,000/4,500/6,000/7,500/9,000, category 8 at 35,000/45,000/55,000/65,000/75,000

    The best hotel chart in the world got worse at the top and better at the bottom, and this desk carried the old one for three months. Hyatt replaced off-peak/standard/peak with five redemption levels on 20 May 2026, keeping categories 1–8: the cheapest standard-room night in the programme fell from 3,500 points to 3,000, and the most expensive rose from 45,000 to 75,000 — a 67% jump at the ceiling, where the Park Hyatts and Alila resorts an Indian reader actually saves for sit. The floor is a rounding error against that. Categories were reshuffled the same day in Hyatt's annual sort, so a property can have moved twice. Two things soften it and neither is much: reservations made under the old chart were honoured, and Hyatt gave twelve days' notice on its own Award Chart Updates page. For an Indian collector the practical effect is narrower still, because no card on this board transfers into Hyatt and the only graph route in — Aeroplan at 2:1 — is elite-gated: a Hyatt balance here is built by staying, and it now buys 40% fewer top-level nights than it did in April. Both charts above were read from dated Wayback captures of Hyatt's own Free Nights & Upgrades page, one from 4 February 2026 and one from 15 July 2026, because world.hyatt.com answers every live fetch with a 403 or a 429.

  • 22 Mar 2020
    Devaluation moderate World of Hyatt
    World of Hyatt bolts on peak pricing, dings Grand Hyatt Kochi
    Flat per-category award pricing, no seasonal surcharge → Peak-night pricing adds up to 30%; 117 properties reprice upward

    Hyatt's 2020 award chart refresh introduced peak and off-peak pricing for the first time, meaning a Category 1 redemption like Grand Hyatt Kochi Bolgatty could jump from 5,000 to 6,500 points on the nights people actually wanted to stay. 117 hotels moved into pricier categories against 100 that got cheaper, a wash on paper but a real hit on the peak dates every points geek actually books.

  • 1 Aug 2016
    Devaluation minor Hyatt Gold Passport
    Hyatt reshuffles award categories, Grand Hyatt Mumbai gets cheaper
    Static category chart, some India properties overpriced → 50 hotels up a category, 56 down, ~4% costlier on average

    Effective for stays booked from August 1, 2016, Hyatt Gold Passport re-sorted its award categories rather than raising point costs outright — a sleight of hand that still landed as roughly a 4% average hike across the portfolio. Grand Hyatt Mumbai actually got cheaper to redeem, a rare bright spot for Indian points hoarders, while trophy properties elsewhere got pricier. It was a preview of the category-inflation playbook every hotel program would lean on for the next decade.

Straight answers

The questions people actually type about World of Hyatt — answered from the same data as everything above, with the same numbers.

What is 1 World of Hyatt point worth in INR?

Our desk marks World of Hyatt at ₹1.50 a point — so 1,000 points are worth ₹1,500 and 10,000 are worth ₹15,000. That is the number every route on this page is priced with. The ₹0.80 floor is the redemption you can always fall back on; the ₹2.50 ceiling is the best sweet spot we have actually verified. The mark is holding flat, last reviewed 5 Aug 2026. The valuation index prices it against every other program we cover.

When did World of Hyatt last devalue?

20 May 2026 — Hyatt's award chart grows two rungs and a 67% ceiling. That is the newest cut on our record. The nerf log below carries 5 tracked events touching World of Hyatt, and the program grades watch on nerf risk.

Verified against Hyatt Hotels's own documents on · our house ₹/point, ₹1.50 today

Not published , and we will not invent it: how long posting takes · its award terms — surcharges and the booking window.

Every document behind this page — 3 of them, each with the day we read it
  1. official Hyatt's own Free Nights and Upgrades chart — eight categories, five redemption levels since May 2026, a category 1 night from 3,000 points. The one big hotel programme that still prints its prices.
  2. official The World of Hyatt terms and their conversion table — points leave for airline miles at 2.5 to 1 by default, which is the floor under any argument that Hyatt points belong on a night.
  3. official World of Hyatt — what a night costs in points

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