Census Town in West Bengal, India

Panchla

Panchla is a census town in Panchla CD Block of Howrah Sadar subdivision in Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Plan a trip to Panchla→From Bhubaneswar

Every way there

Bhubaneswar → Panchla
347 km · quickest by road, 6h 28m · ₹2,670–3,340
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Siliguri → Panchla
465 km · quickest by air, 5h 26m · ₹6,560–9,900
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Guwahati → Panchla
546 km · quickest by air, 6h · ₹7,080–10,670
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The field note

What is in and around Panchla, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Panchla has

YScheduled flightsKolkata (CCU), 34 km
YTrains and coachesTransitous carries 2 timetable feeds for this country, 1 with real-time
YFerriesferry terminal, 7 km; sailings estimated
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

22.540°, 88.140°

How locals move

Getting around Panchla the local way

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. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Pinakpani (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.