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City in Qazvin province, Iran

Bīdestān

Bidestan is a city in Mohammadiyeh District of Alborz County, Qazvin province, Iran.

Bīdestān
Bīdestān · Hamid Soufi
The place

Bidestan is a city in Mohammadiyeh District of Alborz County, Qazvin province, Iran. The village of Bidestan was converted to a city in 2002.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bīdestān

One place 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
    Skill National University

    The National University of Skills formerly known as the Technical and Vocational University, is a state comprehensive university, affiliated to Ministry of Science Research and Technology of Iran. NUS headquarters is based in Tehran, Iran, and it manages more than 180 branches across the country.

    7 km · university in Iran · 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.

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Getting to Bīdestān

Airports
Payam (PYK), 81 km · Mehrabad (THR), 123 km · Imam Khomeini (IKA), 130 km
Stations
Qazvin Airport, 6.9 km
  • Karaj → Bīdestān
    90 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · $8–10
  • Tehran → Bīdestān
    131 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · $11–16
  • Tabriz → Bīdestān
    397 km · quickest by road, 6h 35m · $38–55
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bīdestān

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe normal rate for a shared taxi from Tehran to Qazvin is US$5-9.
  • Get around{{see | name | url | address 36.4455 | long | phone | hours | wikidata 2026-07-26 | content=From Qazvin you can do a day trip to the mountains of Alborz.
  • Go nextApart from Alamut, a day trip to Alborz has a lot of impressive landscapes to offer along with some other castles from Hasan's time.

From Wikivoyage: Qazvin, 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
    Yeghegnadzor and the Vayots Dzor valleyAM

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    575 km
  2. 02
    Sheki (Şəki)AZ

    10 ways of moving, 46 sources

    609 km
  3. 03
    GyumriAM

    12 ways of moving, 47 sources

    745 km
  4. 04
    GoriGE

    10 ways of moving, 16 sources

    823 km
  5. 05
    Vardzia and the Javakheti plateauGE

    12 ways of moving, 57 sources

    824 km

If you know how people move in Bīdestān – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Bīdestān

Bīdestān is 12 km from Qazvin, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.