Luhansk: 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.
Luhansk is a city of 397,677 people in Ukraine, 104 m (341 ft) above sea level. It has 1 railway station on record, including Luhansk.
Key facts
Daylight in Luhansk runs from about 8 h 21 min a day in late December to 16 h 12 min in late June (computed for 48.57° 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 Luhansk in the OurAirports register, so flying in means a longer transfer from the nearest served city.
By rail: stations on record include Luhansk. Trains to Luhansk
Buses to Luhansk · Driving and car hire
Nearby cities, and how to get between them
- Kharkiv, 271 km — tours
- Rostov-on-Don, 153 km (Russia) — trains · buses · car rental · tours
- Voronezh, 345 km (Russia)
- Volgograd, 382 km (Russia) — trains · buses · car rental
- Dnipro, 314 km
- Donetsk, 127 km — trains · buses · car rental · tours
- Krasnodar, 392 km (Russia)
- Zaporizhzhya, 320 km
- Belgorod, 300 km (Russia) — tours
- Makiyivka, 117 km — trains · buses · car rental · tours
Twin towns and sister cities: Rostov-on-Don, Lublin, Cardiff, Saint-Étienne, Daqing, Székesfehérvár, Pernik, Vansbro Municipality, Belgorod, Voronezh, Nizhny Tagil, Santos, Moscow.
Common questions
How big is Luhansk?
About 397,677 people live in Luhansk, across 257 km² (GeoNames and Wikidata).
What time zone is Luhansk in?
Europe/Kyiv, currently UTC+3.
What currency is used in Luhansk?
The Hryvnia (UAH). Traffic drives on the right.
Which cities are near Luhansk?
Kharkiv (271 km), Rostov-on-Don (153 km), Voronezh (345 km), Volgograd (382 km), Dnipro (314 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 14 September 2026. Hotel and hostel 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.