How to reach Trimbakeshwar
- Railhead
- Nashik Road
- Rail away
- about 38 km
- Airport
- Nashik (Ozar)
- Air away
- about 50 km
- Season
- Oct to Mar
By train: Nashik Road
Nashik Road is the station this page treats as the railhead. It sits about 38 km from the temple town. Its Indian Railways code is NK.
Nashik Road (NK) is the closest railhead, about 38 km by road on Google Maps and OpenStreetMap, with frequent trains to major cities. Igatpuri, on the Mumbai line, is about 50 km.
By air: Nashik (Ozar)
Nashik (Ozar) is the airport this page treats as the nearest. It is about 50 km from the temple. On a long route the good combination is usually a flight to the closest well connected airport, then a train or a cab for the remaining distance, rather than a second flight or a day of driving.
Airport transfers are where prices are least predictable. Prepaid desks, app cabs and hotel pickups each cost something different, and at small airports the last departure of the day can be early. If you land late, plan the first night in the airport city rather than pushing on.
Nashik airport at Ozar is about 50 km by road. The state page names Mumbai, about 170 km and roughly 4 hours away, as the airport for international travellers. State transport buses and private taxis run from Nashik and nearby cities for the road leg.
Where you can come from
The cities below are the ones the source names as connected, by rail, by air or by road. They are not a claim about every direct service, and no departure times or train numbers are printed: those change with each timetable, so the live enquiry is the only place to read them for your date.
By road
Ritual town, source of the Godavari. That is the shape of the approach: some temples are a straight drive into a town, others end in a climb or a crossing. Rather than print a highway number that may have changed with the last resurfacing, this page describes the approach and leaves the turn-by-turn to a live map on the day.
By road Nashik airport at Ozar is about 50 km and Igatpuri station about 50 km. Mumbai airport is about 170 km, roughly 4 hours, measured on Google Maps and OpenStreetMap.
The last leg into Trimbakeshwar
Nashik Road is the railhead, about 38 km away; taxis and state transport buses run from there and from the Nashik CBS bus stand, about 30 km from the temple. The trust Bhaktaniwas is by the Trimbakeshwar bus stand, a short walk from the temple. On Shravan Mondays cars stop outside the town and shuttles carry people in.
Getting your dates right
Oct to Mar is the season this site plans around, with the mildest weather and the smallest chance of a road problem on the approach.
Open all year. If the town itself closes with the temple, book the last night before the shut and the first night after the reopen, because transport thins out around both.
Mahashivratri and Shravan pull the biggest crowds of the year. Trains and rooms fill weeks ahead, and the last leg into town is the bottleneck.
On the coast and in the hills the monsoon makes the approach harder rather than the visit impossible. Plan an extra buffer day at each end of the trip.
The facts in one table
| Getting there | Nearest | Away | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Train | Nashik Road | about 38 km | Last leg by bus, jeep, auto or cab |
| Flight | Nashik (Ozar) | about 50 km | Cab or a train for the rest |
| Season | Oct to Mar | - | Open all year |
An "about" figure here is one a temple trust or a state source stated for this temple, and each is listed with its source at the foot of this page.