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Plan a night's pandal hopping

Walk, Metro, bike or car: take your saved pandals, a ready route in your area or its most popular pujas, and get them in order with a link to Google Maps.

Just one hop, A to B? Pandal to pandal ›

1. How are you going?

2. Which pandals

Pick one area, or tap more to plan across areas.

4 more South Kolkata routes are best by bike or car: these pujas are far from the Metro.

49 pujas ticked. The popular ones come ticked; untick any, or add more.

Kalighat east: Deshapriya, Tridhara
Kalighat west: Chetla, Alipore, New Alipore
Bhowanipur, Hazra, Lake Market
Ballygunge, Gariahat
Jodhpur Park, Dhakuria, Selimpur
Santoshpur
Kasba, Rajdanga, Ruby
Behala, Haridevpur, Thakurpukur, Joka
Garia, Naktala

4. Time and pace

5. Your walk

49 pandals is too many for one night: we suggest splitting. Each part below keeps nearby pujas together.

  1. Masterda Surya Sen Metro
  2. Naktala Udayan Sangha+ 600 m
  3. Santoshpur Trikon Park+ 2.4 km, auto or toto
  4. Santoshpur Avenue South+ 230 m
  5. Santoshpur Lake Pally+ 320 m
  6. Pally Mangal+ 2.2 km, auto or toto
  7. Jodhpur Park Sarbojanin+ 210 m
  8. 95 Pally, Jodhpur Park+ 480 m
  9. Babubagan Sarbojanin Durgotsab+ 560 m
  10. Bosepukur Sitala Mandir+ 2.1 km, auto or toto
  11. Rajdanga Naba Uday Sangha+ 730 m
  12. Finish at VIP Bazar Metro, + 990 m

10.8 km in straight lines, about 71 min of walking, not counting queues and stops. 4.1 km on foot, and 6.7 km over 3 long stretches better by auto, toto or bike (marked below).

About 4 h 54 min for this night, with about 15 minutes at each pandal and 25 at the famous ones; queues on Saptami to Navami evenings can be longer.

Tip: the famous pujas are most crowded from evening to around midnight. Late at night, or in the afternoon, the queues are usually shorter.

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Durga Puja in Kolkata · UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, 2021

Locations and Metro stations © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

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