Rotterdam
Worth seeing in and around Rotterdam
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
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Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Rotterdam
- Airports
- Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 5 km · Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 47 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 81 km
- Stations
- Rotterdam The Hague Airport, 4.4 km · Rotterdam Centraal railway station, 700 m · Schiedam Centrum railway station, 4.7 km · Rotterdam Blaak railway station, 700 m · Rotterdam Alexander railway station, 6 km
- Amsterdam → Rotterdam57 km · quickest by road, 1h 37m · €7–10
- Eindhoven → Rotterdam87 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · €11–16
- Maastricht → Rotterdam146 km · quickest by road, 3h 7m · €20–28
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Rotterdam
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Rotterdam. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inYou can also get to Rotterdam by ferry from the United Kingdom.
- Get inP&O Ferries has a daily overnight sailing from Kingston Upon Hull to Rotterdam Europoort.
- Get inFrom Rotterdam Europoort P&O Ferries operates a shuttle bus service that takes you to the city center of Rotterdam.
- Get inDFDS Seaways has a daily overnight ferry crossing from Newcastle to Amsterdam.
From Wikivoyage: Rotterdam, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Rotterdam
Rotterdam is 21 km from The Hague, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Vlaardingencity and municipality of the Netherlands8.9 km
- Capelle aan den IJsselmunicipality in South Holland, the Netherlands6.9 km
- Barendrechttown and municipality in South Holland, the Netherlands8.9 km
- Krimpen aan den IJsseltown and municipality in South Holland, the Netherlands8.3 km
- Albrandswaardmunicipality of the Netherlands (since 1985)9 km