Kolkata
Worth seeing in and around Kolkata
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 Kolkata
- Airports
- Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose (CCU), 13 km · Hazrat Shahjalal (DAC), 252 km
- Stations
- Howrah railway station, 3.1 km · Port of Kolkata, 6.5 km · Behala Airport, 9.3 km · Sealdah railway station, 1 km · Shalimar railway station, 5 km
- Bhubaneswar → Kolkata365 km · quickest by air, 4h 7m · ₹5,420–8,330
- Siliguri → Kolkata461 km · quickest by air, 4h 27m · ₹6,030–9,260
- Guwahati → Kolkata529 km · quickest by air, 5h 1m · ₹6,550–10,030
- 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 Kolkata
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 Kolkata. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inBy ferry: There is a ferry terminal ("ghat") opposite the station that can get you to the opposite side of the river.
- Get inBesides, there are various ferry options from Howrah, Serampore and Uttarpara.
- Get aroundThere are four types of rickshaws in Kolkata: human-pulled rickshaws, cycle rickshaws, auto-rickshaws and electric rickshaws.
- Get aroundRickshaws pulled by men are a common sight in Kolkata and they are mainly found in some old localities of Kolkata.
- Get aroundThese rickshaws usually operate over short distances and mainly run on narrow lanes and they are not allowed to ply over main roads.
From Wikivoyage: Kolkata, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Kolkata – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Kolkata
Kolkata is 5 km from Howrah, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- HowrahCity in West Bengal, India4 km
- Howrah districtdistrict in West Bengal, India4.1 km
- South 24 Parganas districtdistrict in West Bengal, India5.1 km
- Baranagarcity in West Bengal, India8.6 km
- Kolkata districtdistrict in West Bengal, India1.1 km
- Dum DumCity in West Bengal, India10 km