Belgorod: how to get there and around
Airports, stations, ports, where the hotels are and what the numbers say, from public data rather than a brochure.
Belgorod is a city of 345,289 people in Russia (Belgorod Oblast), 164 m (538 ft) above sea level. It has 1 railway station on record, including Belgorod Train Station.
Key facts
Daylight in Belgorod runs from about 8 h 3 min a day in late December to 16 h 33 min in late June (computed for 50.6° latitude), which matters more than the forecast when a day is built around one flight or one crossing.
Getting there
No airport with scheduled passenger service sits within 100 km of Belgorod in the OurAirports register, so flying in means a longer transfer from the nearest served city.
By rail: stations on record include Belgorod Train Station. Trains to Belgorod
Buses to Belgorod · Driving and car hire
What people come for
| Sight | Visitors a year | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Belgorod Art Museum | 68,000 | — |
The busiest is Belgorod Art Museum at 68,000 visitors. Figures are the latest each site has published, so they are not all for the same year.
Tours, tickets and day trips from Belgorod
Nearby cities, and how to get between them
- Kharkiv, 73 km (Ukraine) — trains · buses · car rental · tours
- Voronezh, 217 km — trains · buses · car rental · tours
- Dnipro, 262 km (Ukraine) — trains · buses · car rental · tours
- Donetsk, 300 km (Ukraine)
- Zaporizhzhya, 324 km (Ukraine)
- Kryvyy Rih, 379 km (Ukraine)
- Lipetsk, 301 km — trains · buses · car rental
- Kursk, 128 km — trains · buses · car rental · tours
- Bryansk, 335 km
- Luhansk, 300 km (Ukraine) — tours
Twin towns and sister cities: Wakefield, Kharkiv, Herne, Opole, Vyshhorod, Pryluky, Luhansk, Niš, Oryol, Sevastopol, Changchun, Yevpatoriya, Sumy, Wakefield.
Common questions
How big is Belgorod?
About 345,289 people live in Belgorod, across 153 km² (GeoNames and Wikidata).
What time zone is Belgorod in?
Europe/Moscow, currently UTC+3.
What currency is used in Belgorod?
The Ruble (RUB). Traffic drives on the right.
Which cities are near Belgorod?
Kharkiv (73 km), Voronezh (217 km), Dnipro (262 km), Donetsk (300 km), Zaporizhzhya (324 km).
Where these facts come from
- GeoNames (CC BY 4.0): population, elevation, time zone, postal codes
- Wikidata (CC0): area, sister cities, visitor numbers, heritage listings, stations and ports
- OurAirports (public domain): airports, runways
- Natural Earth (public domain): map outlines
Data compiled 13 September 2026. Hotel figures are from our booking partner’s catalogue on that date. Journey times on this page are estimates from distance, not timetables; check the operator before you rely on one.