Tanakpur to Lohaghat: Distance, Route and How to Reach
Tanakpur to Lohaghat is 87 km by road, through Champawat. Lohaghat stands at 1,754 m, 1,500 m above Tanakpur.
Tanakpur to Lohaghat in numbers
- By road
- 87 km, Tanakpur to Lohaghat
- As the crow flies
- 36 km
- Through
- Champawat
- Lohaghat stands at
- 1,754 m
- Nearest station
- Tanakpur, 88 km by road
- Nearest airport
- Pithoragarh Airport, 65 km by road
The weather now at Lohaghat, and the next 7 days
For the town's own height, 1,754 m, refreshed through the day. Highs and lows in °C; times IST. Lohaghat weather: 10 days and every month
Lohaghat1,754 m
11°CClear
Now, 19:02 IST · wind 5 km/h
- Clear11° 9°Dry
- Mostly clear20° 8°Dry
- Mostly clear20° 9°Dry
- Clear20° 8°Dry
- Clear20° 8°Dry
- Clear19° 8°Dry
- Clear20° 8°Dry
Forecast for 1,754 m, updated . Data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0); the daily figures are worked out by us.
The road from Tanakpur to Lohaghat, town by town
The road climbs from 255 m at Tanakpur to 1,754 m at Lohaghat.
| Town | From Tanakpur | Height |
|---|---|---|
| Sukhidhang | 23 km | about 1,260 m |
| Chalthi | 37 km | about 660 m |
| Champawat | 72 km | 1,610 m |
| Lohaghat | 87 km | 1,754 m |
One temple stands beside this road: Baleshwar Temple, 74 km from Tanakpur.
Good to know on this road
- The Swala danger zone between Tanakpur and Champawat is the main hazard on the way up to Lohaghat. Rs 21 crore of protective work began in 2025 and was still unfinished in June 2026. (amarujala.com, 5 Jun 2026)
- In Aug 2026 Amar Ujala reported danger zones at Santola and Singda in the Barakot area of the national highway, with some stretches narrowed to one vehicle at a time; work at Santola was waiting on a tender, and machines were kept at sensitive spots. (amarujala.com, 18 Aug 2026)
- The Champawat district site puts Lohaghat about 14 km from Champawat town and 62 km from Pithoragarh, on the Pithoragarh to Tanakpur road. (champawat.nic.in)
- On 9 Aug 2025 debris at Swala closed the Tanakpur to Lohaghat highway from about 5:30 AM for more than 15 hours. Lohaghat depot buses bound for Delhi, Dehradun and Haldwani were stuck at Swala or held at Champawat. (amarujala.com, 9 Aug 2025)
- On 21 Oct 2026 the Lohaghat depot ran 12 services, including four to Delhi, two to Dehradun, and buses to Gurugram, Faridabad, Paonta Sahib, Bareilly, Nainital and Haldwani, and added an extra bus to Tanakpur for the post Navratri rush to the plains. (amarujala.com, 21 Oct 2026)
- In Oct 2026 the Lohaghat depot had 27 buses on 13 routes (34 in June 2025) and needed 20 more. Routes to Kanpur, Chandigarh, Bareilly, Kashipur and Simalkhet had been off for a long time, and riders were paying two to three times the usual fare in private taxis. (amarujala.com, 12 Oct 2026)
Questions about Tanakpur to Lohaghat
87 km by road from Tanakpur to Lohaghat, measured on OpenStreetMap; the road runs through Champawat. As the crow flies it is 36 km.
Tanakpur (TPU), 88 km by road to Lohaghat. From the station the rest is by road.
Pithoragarh Airport (NNS), 65 km by road to Lohaghat. Check the flights for your dates: the last stretch is always by road.
Lohaghat from other cities
From Tanakpur to the other places on the road
How we made this page
The road is OpenStreetMap's, routed for a car by two public routers (OSRM and Valhalla), the shorter of the two kept; a town is on it when it lies within a few hundred metres of the line (a village) or 2.5 km (a town centre). Heights are the site's published figures, else a 90 m elevation model, shown as "about". Trains and flights are from the railway and airline timetables, buses and taxis from the operators and the news, each linked where it is used. No drive times: a router's times are plains times. If anything here is out of date, tell us on WhatsApp.
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