Shillong
Worth seeing in and around Shillong
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.
- 01
- 02North-Eastern Hill University
Central University established on 19 July 1973 by an Act of the Indian Parliament
4.9 km · Wikipedia - 03
- 04Cathedral of Mary Help of Christians, Shillong
Cathedral in Shilong, Meghalaya, India
800 m · Wikipedia - 05
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- 08University of Technology and Management
State private university in East Khasi Hills, Meghalaya, India
2.4 km · Wikipedia - 09William Carey University, Meghalaya
State private university in East Khasi Hills, Meghalaya, India
700 m · Wikipedia - 10
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 Shillong
- Airports
- Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi (GAU), 67 km · Osmany (ZYL), 67 km · Bir Tikendrajit (IMF), 222 km
- Guwahati → Shillong70 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · ₹640–800
- Imphal → Shillong224 km · quickest by road, 7h 14m · ₹3,020–3,770
- Siliguri → Shillong367 km · quickest by road, 7h 38m · ₹3,320–4,150
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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 Shillong
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 Shillong. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe best way to reach Shillong, is from Guwahati, via helicopter.
- Get inThe helicopter flies to the ALG (Advanced Landing Ground) Shillong, an Air Force Heliport located around 15 km away from the city center.
- Get inTravelling by helicopter reduces the tedious 4 hour road journey from Guwahati to a pleasant 20-minute flight.
- Get inTickets can be booked from the Meghalaya Helicopter Service counter at the Guwahati airport and from the Meghalaya Transport Corporation counters in Shillong.
- Get inAs of July 2023, since May, the helicopter service is not operating due to maintenance.
From Wikivoyage: Shillong, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.
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- Nongmynsonghuman settlement in East Khasi Hills district, Meghalaya, India3.2 km
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