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Where to Stay in Aurangabad, State of Mahārāshtra
Aurangabad is a city in the State of Mahārāshtra, the largest town of the Marathwada region, first founded in 1592 on the upland of the Deccan Traps.
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Where to stay in Aurangabad
The right area depends on your trip — here's what each neighbourhood is best for.
Where you stay in Aurangabad centres on the old city, where the historic Neher water system, markets, and heritage streets sit within reach of one another on the Deccan Traps upland. Stay near the core. Travellers who come for the heritage of Aurangabad settle here first, close to the channels of the Neher water system and the lanes that carry the town's long Marathwada history.
Beyond the old core, Aurangabad spreads into newer residential and green quarters that give longer stays more room across the hilly upland of the State of Mahārāshtra. The Siddharth Garden and Zoo gives families open space a short way from the centre, and rooms out here run larger and quieter. These outer neighbourhoods keep the historic streets of Aurangabad within easy reach while offering a calmer base, so visitors drawn to the heritage of the Marathwada region and Aurangabad district can settle near the parks and still cross into the old town with ease.
The centre holds the pull.
About Aurangabad
What is Aurangabad known for?
Aurangabad, officially renamed Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, is known as the largest city of the Marathwada region and the administrative headquarters of Aurangabad district. Its heritage runs deep. The Neher water system, a historic supply of channels, still traces the old town, and the Siddharth Garden and Zoo draws families to the modern city, both anchored on the hilly upland of the Deccan Traps within the State of Mahārāshtra.
What are the main landmarks in Aurangabad?
The main landmarks in Aurangabad range from historic waterworks to open green space. The Neher water system leads them. This old network of channels once carried the town's supply across the Deccan Traps upland, and the Siddharth Garden and Zoo draws families to the modern city, both set within Aurangabad district in the Marathwada region of the State of Mahārāshtra.
What is the history of Aurangabad?
Aurangabad was founded in 1592, rising on the hilly upland of the Deccan Traps as a seat of power in what is now the Marathwada region of the State of Mahārāshtra. Its position shaped its rise. The town commanded the routes across the Deccan interior, and works such as the Neher water system were laid to carry supply to its growing quarters, marking Aurangabad as an early centre of administration and trade on the upland.
Across the centuries the town held its standing as the largest place of the Marathwada region and the headquarters of Aurangabad district, its old core keeping the shape set in its founding years. Rule changed hands over time. The city, officially renamed Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, carried its long heritage through each era, and the channels of the Neher water system still trace that past across the Deccan Traps upland, so the historic streets of Aurangabad remain bound to the town first raised here in 1592.
Where is Aurangabad?
Aurangabad sits on a hilly upland of the Deccan Traps in the Marathwada region of the State of Mahārāshtra. The land rolls in low ridges. The city is the largest in Marathwada and the seat of Aurangabad district, set inland on the Deccan interior far from any coast, where the basalt uplands of the Deccan Traps give the surrounding country its stepped, terraced form.
That upland setting long made Aurangabad a natural centre for the districts around it.
What is the climate of Aurangabad?
Aurangabad has a hot semi-arid climate shaped by its position on the Deccan Traps upland of the State of Mahārāshtra. Summers run hot and dry. The heat builds across the Marathwada uplands before the seasonal monsoon rains break to green the surrounding country, and the cooler months bring milder, drier days to the city and the ridges around it.
The upland air keeps nights fresher than the coastal lowlands.
How do you get to Aurangabad?
Getting to Aurangabad brings travellers onto the Deccan Traps upland at the heart of the Marathwada region. Road and rail lines climb to the city from Mumbai, Pune, and the other larger centres of the State of Mahārāshtra, crossing the ridged interior country that spreads on all sides. The last approach is short.
Local transport carries visitors from the stations to the Neher water system and the historic old core of Aurangabad.
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Updated July 2026