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District in West Bengal, India

Howrah district

Howrah district is a district of the West Bengal state in eastern India.

Howrah district
Howrah district · Wikimedia Commons
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Howrah district is a district of the West Bengal state in eastern India. Howrah district is one of the most highly urbanized areas in West Bengal. It has thousands of years of rich heritage in the form of the great Bengali kingdom of Bhurshut. The district is named after its headquarters, the city of Howrah.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Howrah district

Airports
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose (CCU), 15 km · Hazrat Shahjalal (DAC), 255 km
  • Bhubaneswar → Howrah district
    336 km · quickest by road, 6h 19m · ₹2,580–3,230
  • Siliguri → Howrah district
    470 km · quickest by air, 5h 57m · ₹6,730–10,110
  • Guwahati → Howrah district
    556 km · quickest by air, 6h 31m · ₹7,250–10,880
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Howrah 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 Howrah district. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
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From Wikivoyage: Kolkata/Maidan, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    106 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
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    7 ways of moving, 24 sources

    661 km
  5. 05
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    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    678 km

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