Howrah
Worth seeing in and around Howrah
10 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.
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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.
Getting to Howrah
- Airports
- Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose (CCU), 16 km · Hazrat Shahjalal (DAC), 255 km
- Stations
- Howrah railway station, 2.6 km · Port of Kolkata, 3.7 km · Behala Airport, 8.3 km · Sealdah railway station, 5.5 km
- Bhubaneswar → Howrah363 km · quickest by air, 4h 14m · ₹5,470–8,400
- Siliguri → Howrah460 km · quickest by air, 4h 34m · ₹6,080–9,330
- Guwahati → Howrah530 km · quickest by air, 5h 8m · ₹6,600–10,100
- 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 Howrah
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 Howrah. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Howrah
Howrah is 5 km from Kolkata, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Kolkatacapital city of West Bengal, India5.4 km
- Howrah districtdistrict in West Bengal, India800 m
- South 24 Parganas districtdistrict in West Bengal, India5.8 km
- Baranagarcity in West Bengal, India8.8 km
- Kolkata districtdistrict in West Bengal, India4.7 km
- Aliporelocality of Kolkata5.8 km