Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport is an international airport serving Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.
It is located at Babatpur, 26 km (16 mi) northwest of Varanasi.
Formerly known as Varanasi Airport, it was officially renamed after Lal Bahadur Shastri, the 2nd Prime Minister of India, in October 2005.
It is the 20th-busiest airport in India in terms of passenger movement, and the second-busiest airport in Uttar Pradesh.
The airport is awarded as the best airport in Asia-Pacific in 2020 by Airports Council International.
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