Uzbekistan · Andijan Region
Where to Stay in Andijon, Andijan Region
Andijon is the chief city of the Fergana Valley in eastern Uzbekistan, an old Silk Road town and the birthplace of Babur.
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Where to stay in Andijon
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
In Andijon the decision is really about how close you want to sleep to the old quarter. The streets around the Jame Mosque and the bazaar keep the mosques, the markets, and the museum within a walk, and staying in the centre suits anyone here for the old city. The bazaar lanes fill by day.
Rooms sit near the market. Out in the newer districts and toward the plain, the city spreads wide and green. A room away from the centre trades the old lanes for space, the parks, and the road out to the valley towns.
The green valley opens past the edge. If you want the mosque and the bazaar, stay in the centre; if you want space, take a room outside. Whichever room you take, the Jame Mosque and the bazaar stay within easy reach.
About Andijon
Andijon is the eastern city of the Fergana Valley.
What is Andijon known for?
In the fertile bowl of the valley below the mountains, it was a Silk Road town and the birthplace of Babur, who founded the Mughal empire in India, and it keeps a great Friday mosque and madrasa, old bazaars, and gardens of mulberry and cotton. The mountains ring the valley. Silk and Babur mark the city.
What are the main landmarks in Andijon?
The Jame Mosque is the heart of old Andijon. The great Friday mosque and its madrasa, with a tall minaret and a long arcaded court, stand by the bazaar, the emblem of the city, in the old town. A vast bazaar spreads nearby.
The old market, one of the largest in the valley, fills with traders, while the madrasas, the mosques, and Babur's remembered birthplace mark the streets of Andijon.
What is the history of Andijon?
Andijon is an old city of the Silk Road. In the rich Fergana Valley it was for centuries a market where the caravans of the road met, trading in silk, horses, and the fruit of the valley. Its greatest son changed the world.
Here in 1483 was born Babur, the prince who lost his valley kingdom, seized Kabul, and went on to found the Mughal empire in India. The valley passed through many hands. Andijon was ruled from Kokand and then by the khans, until the Russians took the Fergana Valley in the nineteenth century and built their railway to carry its cotton.
An earthquake struck the old town. In 1902 a great quake threw down much of Andijon, and the city was raised again around its mosque and bazaars. The old madrasa still stands by the square.
Andijon keeps its bazaars and its gardens in the Fergana Valley.
Where is Andijon?
Andijon lies in the eastern Fergana Valley of Uzbekistan, near the border with Kyrgyzstan. The city sits on the fertile plain of the valley, ringed by the high Tian Shan ranges, watered by canals from the mountain rivers, in the far east of the land. Snowy ranges rise all around.
The green valley spreads to the west.
What is the climate of Andijon?
Andijon's climate is continental and short on rain. Hot, dry summers bake the valley, and cold winters bring frost and some snow, tempered by the ring of mountains, with most rain in the spring. Dust hazes the plain in summer.
The valley greens with the melting snow.
How do you get to Andijon?
Andijon lies in the eastern Fergana Valley, near the Kyrgyz border. Roads and rail run to it from Tashkent and Fergana across and around the mountains, and the valley towns lie close along the plain. Minibuses fan out from Andijon to the other towns of the Fergana Valley.
Most arrive by road from Fergana.
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Updated August 2026