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Census town in Uttar Pradesh, India

Umarha

Umaraha is a census town in Varanasi tehsil of Varanasi district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

The place

Umaraha is a census town in Varanasi tehsil of Varanasi district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The census town & village falls under the Umaraha gram panchayat. Umarha Census town & village is about 12 kilometers North-East of Varanasi railway station, 317 kilometers South-East of Lucknow and 17 kilometers North-East of Banaras Hindu University main gate.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Umarha

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
    Sarnath Museum

    Sarnath Museum, or Archaeological Museum Sarnath, is the oldest site museum of the Archaeological Survey of India. It houses the findings and excavations at the archaeological site of Sarnath, by the Archaeological Survey of India.

    4.3 km · archaeological museum in Saranath · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Buddha Preaching his First Sermon

    The Buddha Preaching his First Sermon is a stone sculpture of the 5th-century CE showing Gautama Buddha in the "teaching posture" or dharmachakra pravartana mudrā. The relief is 160 cm tall, and was excavated at Sarnath, India by F. O. Oertel during the 1904–1905 excavation season of the Archaeological Survey of India; it was found in an area to the south of the Dhamek Stupa.

    4.4 km · 5th-century sculpture from Sarnath, India · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies

    The Central University for Tibetan Studies, formerly called the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies, is a Deemed University founded in Sarnath, Varanasi, India, in 1967. It is an autonomous university under India's Ministry of Culture.

    5 km · deemed university in Varanasi, India · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Swarved Mahamandir

    Swarved Mahamandir is a charitable meditation centre built in Varanasi and inaugurated by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and with its seven-storey claims to be the biggest meditation centre in the World. The centre is built with an estimated cost of Rs 100 crores and has a seating capacity of 20,000 people at a time.

    1.8 km · Hindu temple at Varanasi, India · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Sarnath Jain Tirth

    Sarnath Jain Tirth, also called the Shreyanshnath Jain Pilgrimage, is a group of Jain temples in Sarnath. They are located near Dhamek Stupa.

    4.2 km · jain temple in the state of Uttar Pradesh · 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 Umarha

Airports
Lal Bahadur Shastri (VNS), 21 km · Gautam Buddha (BWA), 238 km · Chaudhary Charan Singh (LKO), 265 km
  • Lucknow → Umarha
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  • Siliguri → Umarha
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  • Gautam Buddha Nagar → Umarha
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No local-transport research exists yet for Umarha

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inLocal bus No107E departs from near Varanasi Cantt train station (coordinates: 25°19.74981'N, 82°59.36062'E), and costs ₹25 (2023) to Sarnath The town is easily reached by taxi or auto rickshaw from Varanasi.
  • Get inYou can negotiate a better rate with an autorickshaw driver, outside the station.
  • Get inIf you have tons of luggage though, go with the taxi -- it won't fit in the rickshaw.

From Wikivoyage: Sarnath, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    GhandrukNP

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    340 km
  2. 02
    MunsiyariIN

    8 ways of moving, 25 sources

    590 km
  3. 03
    Sagar Island and GangasagarIN

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    658 km
  4. 04
    ChitkulIN

    7 ways of moving, 20 sources

    803 km
  5. 05
    Sohra (Cherrapunji)IN

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    870 km

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Around it

Next door to Umarha

Umarha is 10 km from Varanasi, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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  • Khalispurhuman settlement in Ghazipur district, Varanasi division, Uttar Pradesh, India5.7 km
  • Vyaspurhuman settlement in India2.8 km
  • Lerhupurcensus town & village in Uttar Pradesh, India4.2 km