Dharwad district
Dharwad district or Dhārawāda district is an administrative district of the state of Karnataka in southern India.
Dharwad district or Dhārawāda district is an administrative district of the state of Karnataka in southern India. The administrative headquarters of the district is the city of Dharwad, also known as Dharwar. Dharwad is located 425 km northwest of Bangalore and 421 km southeast of Pune, on the main highway between Chennai and Pune, the National Highway 4 (NH4).
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Worth seeing in and around Dharwad district
4 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.
- 01Banashankari Temple
Banashankari Temple of Amargol is an ancient temple dedicated to Banashankari in Dharwad, Karnataka, India.
3.6 km · Hindu temple located in Amargol, Dharwad District, Karnataka, India · Wikipedia - 02Chandramouleshwara Temple, Unkal
The Chandramauleshwara Temple, sometimes referred to as the Candramauḷĩśvara or Chandramouleshwara temple at Unkal, is an 11th-century Shiva temple with Chalukyan architecture in Unkal, Karnataka, India. It is built on a square-cross plan with one entrance for each cardinal direction, corresponding to the sandhara plan found in Sanskrit texts on architecture.
1.5 km · 11th-century four-entrance Shiva temple (Chalukya era) · Wikipedia - 03Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences
Karnataka Medical College and Research Institute, colloquially known as KMC, is a medical school in Hubballi, Karnataka, India. It is affiliated to Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences.
3.3 km · government medical college in Hubli, Karnataka, India · Wikipedia - 04KLE Technological University
Karnatak Lingayat Education Technological University is a private university in Hubballi-Dharwad, Karnataka, India. It was upgraded to a university under the KLE Technological University Act, 2012.
2.4 km · state private university in Dharwad, Karnataka, India · Wikipedia
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Getting to Dharwad district
- Airports
- Goa Dabolim (GOI), 138 km · Manohar (GOX), 141 km · Mangaluru (IXE), 272 km
- Vasco da Gama → Dharwad district141 km · quickest by road, 3h 32m · ₹1,230–1,540
- Mopa → Dharwad districtTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Mangaluru → Dharwad district274 km · quickest by road, 6h 9m · ₹2,310–2,890
- 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 Dharwad district
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 Dharwad district. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundLocal Rickshaws are also available, though you will have to bargain hard as they refuse to ply by the meter.
- Get aroundOne can hire autorickshaws to visit different places within city limits.
From Wikivoyage: Hubli, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Dharwad district
Dharwad district is 5 km from Hubballi, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.