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Diamond Harbour

Diamond Harbour is a city and a municipality of South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Diamond Harbour
Diamond Harbour · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Diamond Harbour is a city and a municipality of South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the headquarters of Diamond Harbour subdivision.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Diamond Harbour

5 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
    Diamond Harbour Women's University

    Diamond Harbour Women's University is a women's university in Diamond Harbour, West Bengal. Established in 2013, it is the state's first women's university which will provide an education in humanities and basic sciences.

    7.3 km · state public university in South 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Diamond Harbour Government Medical College and Hospital

    Diamond Harbour Government Medical College and Hospital is a full-fledged tertiary referral Government Medical college. The journey of this Medical College and Hospital had started in December, 1974 under the name of Diamond Harbour Sub-divisional Hospital.

    900 m · Government Medical College in West Bengal · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Deulpota

    Deulpota is an archaeological site located beside the Hooghly river, in the Diamond Harbour II CD block in the Diamond Harbour subdivision of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

    3.3 km · archaeological site in West Bengal, India · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Fakir Chand College

    Fakir Chand College in Diamond Harbour, West Bengal, India, is a liberal arts, science and commerce Government college, situated 45 kilometres from Kolkata. It is affiliated to the University of Calcutta.

    1.1 km · college in West Bengal · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Harinarayanpur

    Harinarayanpur is an archaeological site in the Kulpi CD block in the Diamond Harbour subdivision of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

    7.3 km · archaeological site in West Bengal, India · 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 Diamond Harbour

Airports
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose (CCU), 58 km · Hazrat Shahjalal (DAC), 291 km
Stations
Raychak, 7.2 km · Diamond Harbour railway station, 200 m · Basuldanga railway station, 4.7 km · Deula railway station, 9.8 km · Netra railway station, 6.9 km
  • Kolkata → Diamond Harbour
    45 km · quickest by road, 1h 4m · ₹325–405
  • Bhubaneswar → Diamond Harbour
    324 km · quickest by road, 7h 39m · ₹3,140–3,920
  • Siliguri → Diamond Harbour
    503 km · quickest by air, 6h 31m · ₹6,910–10,330
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Diamond Harbour

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundCycle rickshaws and toto rickshaws are main vehicles used to get around the town.

From Wikivoyage: Diamond Harbour, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Sagar Island and GangasagarIN

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    61 km
  2. 02
    Sohra (Cherrapunji)IN

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    497 km
  3. 03
    Dawki and ShnongpdengIN

    9 ways of moving, 23 sources

    512 km
  4. 04
    BaganMM

    12 ways of moving, 50 sources

    699 km
  5. 05
    TawangIN

    7 ways of moving, 24 sources

    705 km

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

Around it

Next door to Diamond Harbour

Diamond Harbour is 36 km from Maheshtala, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Amtalacensus town in West Bengal3.6 km
  • Sarishavillage in West Bengal, India5.9 km
  • Deulavillage in South 24 Parganas district9.8 km
  • Berandari Bagariacensus Town in West Bengal, India7.3 km
  • Bhushnavillage in West Bengal, India6.7 km
  • Durganagarcensus Town in West Bengal, India2.6 km