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Andul

Andul is a census town in Sankrail CD Block of Howrah Sadar subdivision in Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Andul
Andul · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Andul is a census town in Sankrail CD Block of Howrah Sadar subdivision in Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Andul

3 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.

  1. 01
    Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden

    The Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden, previously known as the Indian Botanic Garden, Calcutta Botanic Garden, and Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, is a botanical garden situated in Shibpur, Howrah near Kolkata. The garden houses a wide variety of rare plants boasting of a total collection of over 12,000 specimens spread over 109 hectares.

    5.3 km · botanic garden · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Andul Rajbari

    Andul Rajbari is a heritage palace situated at Andul, in Howrah district, West Bengal, India. The current residents of the Rajbari are the Mitra family and a local Girls' school.

    600 m · Historical Building in Kolkata · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Azad Hind Fouz Smriti Mahavidyalaya

    Azad Hind Fouz Smriti Mahavidyalaya is an undergraduate liberal arts college in Domjur, West Bengal, India. It is in Howrah district.

    5.1 km · college in West Bengal · Wikipedia

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.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Andul Rajbari

    A palace built by Raja Rajnarayan Bahadur in 1834.

  2. 02
    Khatirbazar Semaphore Tower
  3. 03
    Kundu Chowdhury Mansion

    Siddheswari Shankari Temple, Siddheswari Tala.

From Wikivoyage: Andul, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Durga Puja of Dutta Chowdhury

    Among the oldest in Bengal, the Durga Puja was started by Kashiswar Dutta Chowdhury around 400 years ago.

From Wikivoyage: Andul, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Andul

Airports
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose (CCU), 23 km · Hazrat Shahjalal (DAC), 261 km
Stations
Santragachi Junction railway station, 4.6 km · Abada railway station, 5.5 km · Ramrajatala railway station, 5.9 km · Sankrail railway station, 3.8 km · Maurigram railway station, 1.6 km
  • Bhubaneswar → Andul
    357 km · quickest by air, 4h 34m · ₹5,620–8,610
  • Siliguri → Andul
    460 km · quickest by air, 4h 54m · ₹6,230–9,540
  • Guwahati → Andul
    536 km · quickest by air, 5h 28m · ₹6,750–10,310
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Andul

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe ferry services to cross the Hooghly River from Kolkata to Howrah is very convenient to zip across both cities.
  • Get inOn the Kolkata side, the ferries link to such jetties at Bagbazar, Armenian, Fairlie, Chandpal Ghat and Babughat.
  • Get inBuy the ticket before you board the ferry and retain the ticket till after you have crossed to the other side and have shown it to the ticket checker near the exit gate or else you will be penalised!

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

The nearest places where the work is done
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    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    104 km
  2. 02
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    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

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  3. 03
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  4. 04
    TawangIN

    7 ways of moving, 24 sources

    665 km
  5. 05
    ViswemaIN

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Around it

Next door to Andul

Andul is 8 km from Maheshtala, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Mahiaricensus town in Howrah district, Presidency division, West Bengal, India1.1 km
  • Sankrailcensus town in India1.1 km
  • BhandardahaCity/town in West Bengal, India5.4 km
  • Makardahacensus town in Howrah district, West Bengal, India4.4 km
  • AnkurhatiCity/town in West Bengal, India2.2 km
  • Khantorahuman settlement in Howrah district, Presidency division, West Bengal, India5.5 km