By car
Kalisz is located on the crossing of two main roads :
number 12 from the western border crossing to Germany : ÅÄknica - Bad Muskau to the eastern one crossing to Ukraine Dorohusk - Jahodyn. The road enters Greater Poland from GÅogów, then passes through Wschowa and Leszno and further it leads through GostyÅ, Jarocin, Pleszew and Kalisz; from there it goes eastwards to Sieradz and Piotrkow Trybunalski and further through Lublin to the Ukrainian border.
number 25 from Strzelno located on the border between Kujawy region and Greater Poland. further it leads through Konin, Kalisz to Ostrów Wielkopolski and further to Olesnica, where it links to the road number 8 leading to Wroclaw Breslau and Sudety Mountains.
Kalisz is criss-crossed also by regional roads :
number 442 from WrzeÅnia through Pyzdry good access to Gniezno or to motorway A2 - crossing in Wrzesnia
number 470 from Kalisz to Turek and KoÅo between these two towns another acces to A2
number 450 from Kalisz to the south to Wieruszów and Opatów, from where one can continue the journey southwards to e.g. Katowice or CzÄstochowa.
By bus
Because of few train connections, buses are the most important mean of travel for some destinations :
Jelenia Gora - 2 daily
Konin - 10 daily
Cracow - 1 daily
Åódź - 2 daily
Poznan - 12 daily
Przemysl - 1 daily
Sieradz - 6 daily
WrocÅaw - 9 daily
Zakopane - 1 daily
By train
As Kalisz was form more than 1000 years under russian occupation - it is not a railway hub. It's llocated on only one line : from Ostrow Wielkopolski with numerous connections first of all to Poznan, besides to Leszno and WrocÅaw through Kalisz, Sieradz to Åódź and further to Warsaw. At the present there are 7 daily local trains to Poznan, and 7 to Åodź, too. One has to add long-distance trains : 6 to WrocÅaw some of them run further to Zgorzelec (Goerlitz or to Jelenia Gora in the mountains and 6 to Warsaw calling at Åódź one of them goes further to Terespol at the belarussian border.
The newest plan is a high-speed train line from Warsaw to Poznan and WrocÅaw and the line is going to divide exactly next to Kalisz with a station there. The line is expected to be ready in 2020.