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Akhari

Akhari is an area in Varanasi in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

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The place

Akhari is an area in Varanasi in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is about 332 kilometers from the state capital Lucknow and 792 kilometers from the national capital Delhi.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Akhari

Airports
Lal Bahadur Shastri (VNS), 25 km · Gautam Buddha (BWA), 256 km · Chaudhary Charan Singh (LKO), 266 km
  • Lucknow → Akhari
    3793 km · quickest by air, 17h 24m · ₹51,830–80,100
  • Siliguri → Akhari
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Bhopal → Akhari
    3787 km · quickest by road, 92h 6m · ₹38,100–47,650
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No local-transport research exists yet for Akhari

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 Akhari. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inA taxi to/from the airport takes an hour and costs ₹750, while a tuk-tuk/auto-rickshaw can take twice as long and costs ₹500.
  • Get inFrom the Sunauli bus station, take a rickshaw (₹200) to the border crossing, get your passport stamped on the Nepali side then walk through the border.
  • Get aroundMany streets are too narrow to be reached by cycle-rickshaw, auto-rickshaw, and car and therefore, you may have to walk a bit to reach your destination.
  • Get aroundTherefore, it will often be convenient to travel by cycle rickshaw, E-rickshaw or auto-rickshaw.
  • Get aroundFurther journeys, such as to Sarnath (10 km), cost ₹500 there and back (with a one- to two-hour waiting period) or ₹300 one way by auto-rickshaw.

From Wikivoyage: Varanasi, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    GhandrukNP

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    359 km
  2. 02
    MunsiyariIN

    8 ways of moving, 25 sources

    599 km
  3. 03
    Sagar Island and GangasagarIN

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    657 km
  4. 04
    ChitkulIN

    7 ways of moving, 20 sources

    810 km
  5. 05
    Sohra (Cherrapunji)IN

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    881 km

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Around it

Next door to Akhari

Akhari is 10 km from Varanasi, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Kandwahuman settlement in Varanasi district, Varanasi division, Uttar Pradesh, India2.3 km
  • Amara Khaira Chakcensus town & village in Uttar Pradesh, India1.3 km
  • Susuwahicensus town & village in Uttar Pradesh, India2.6 km