Kaluga: 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.
Kaluga is a city of 340,851 people in Russia (Kaluga Oblast), 208 m (682 ft) above sea level. It has 4 railway stations on record, including Azarovo.
Key facts
Daylight in Kaluga runs from about 7 h 21 min a day in late December to 17 h 21 min in late June (computed for 54.53° 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 Kaluga in the OurAirports register, so flying in means a longer transfer from the nearest served city.
By rail: stations on record include Azarovo, Perspektivnaya, Gorenskaya, 168 km. Trains to Kaluga
Buses to Kaluga · Driving and car hire
What people come for
| Sight | Visitors a year | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Kaluga Museum Reserve | 85,200 | — |
The busiest is Kaluga Museum Reserve at 85,200 visitors. Figures are the latest each site has published, so they are not all for the same year.
Tours, tickets and day trips from Kaluga
Nearby cities, and how to get between them
- Moscow, 161 km — trains · buses · car rental · tours
- Voronezh, 373 km
- Ryazan’, 222 km — tours
- Lipetsk, 306 km — trains
- Tula, 95 km — trains · buses · car rental · tours
- Kursk, 312 km — trains
- Bryansk, 190 km — trains · buses · car rental · tours
- Tver, 260 km — tours
- Vitebsk, 395 km (Belarus)
- Vladimir, 316 km
Twin towns and sister cities: Suhl, Lahti, Binningen, Tiraspol, Panorama, Minsk, Binzhou, Smolensk, Oryol, Tula, Makhachkala, Leszno, Chemnitz, Xianyang.
Common questions
How big is Kaluga?
About 340,851 people live in Kaluga, across 169 km² (GeoNames and Wikidata).
What time zone is Kaluga in?
Europe/Moscow, currently UTC+3.
What currency is used in Kaluga?
The Ruble (RUB). Traffic drives on the right.
Which cities are near Kaluga?
Moscow (161 km), Voronezh (373 km), Ryazan’ (222 km), Lipetsk (306 km), Tula (95 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.