Amritsar
Worth seeing in and around Amritsar
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
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Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Amritsar
- Airports
- Sri Guru Ram Das Ji (ATQ), 12 km · Allama Iqbal (LHE), 46 km · Sialkot (SKT), 112 km
- Stations
- Mananwala railway station, 8.7 km · Verka Junction railway station, 7.2 km
- Halwara → Amritsar124 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · ₹1,050–1,310
- Chandigarh → Amritsar207 km · quickest by road, 3h 36m · ₹1,490–1,860
- Srinagar → Amritsar274 km · quickest by air, 4h 24m · ₹4,660–7,140
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Amritsar
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Amritsar. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inYou could walk this in about 15 minutes or take a rickshaw or auto from there.
- Get inFrom the roundabout northeast of the Golden Temple in the center, the roundabout where also rickshaws go to the border, the bus should leave towards the airport about 1 hr before these times, but best to inquire with the Golden Temple staff beforehand.
- Get inBy rickshaw – If you just head to the highway, or even just outside of the airport, there should be rickshaws waiting for potential customers—say ₹100-200.
- Get inFor a trip into town, even the prepaid taxi can be bargained down with the drivers to ₹300 from initially ridiculous prices of ₹550 a person (as of March 2014; became ₹850 as of May 2023) before you pay, but there is a significant dearth of official taxis or even auto-rickshaws, so prepare for a hard time.
- Get inIf coming from Wagah at the Pakistani border, take a rickshaw (₹20, 3 km) to the Attari station, where you can catch a local bus to Amritsar (₹40, 25 km).
From Wikivoyage: Amritsar, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Amritsar
Amritsar is 50 km from Lahore, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Amritsar Cantonmenthuman settlement5.8 km
- Chheharta SahibSuburb in Punjab, India7.6 km
- Gumtalavillage in Punjab, India5.1 km
- Taragarh Talawavillage in Punjab, India1 km