The nearest airport is Lal Bahadur Shastri Airport at Babatpur, 22 Km from Varanasi and 30 Km from Sarnath. Direct flights for Varanasi are available from Delhi, Agra, Khajurao, Kolkata, Mumbai, Lucknow, Bhuvaneshwar and Kathmandu (Nepal).
Varanasi Cantt. and Mughal Sarai (one of the main railway stations of Varanasi) are the important rail junctions that link Varanasi with all major cities of India.
Varanasi is on NH 2 from Kolkata to Delhi, NH 7 to Kanya Kumari and NH 29 to Gorakhpur is well connected with the rest of the country by good motorable roads. Some of the major road distances are: Agra – 565 km, Allahabad – 128 km, Bhopal – 791 km, Bodhgaya – 240 km, Kanpur – 330 km, Khajuraho – 405 km, Lucknow – 286 km, Patna – 246 km, Sarnath – 10 Km.