Sydney
Worth seeing in and around Sydney
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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Mass shooting during a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia on 14 December 2025
7 km · Wikipedia - 03University of New South Wales
Public research university in Kensington, Sydney, Australia
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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 Sydney
- Airports
- Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 9 km · Newcastle (NTL), 133 km
- Stations
- Sydney Harbour Bridge, 1.8 km · Sydney Airport, 9.4 km · Port Jackson, 2.6 km · Central railway station, 1.6 km
- Williamtown → Sydney131 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · A$21–28
- Gold Coast → Sydney686 km · quickest by air, 5h 3m · A$220–330
- Toowoomba → Sydney705 km · quickest by air, 4h 51m · A$220–330
- 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 Sydney
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 Sydney. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inOn cruise days there is a ferry operating to Darling Harbour, as well as taxis and transfer services organised by the cruise companies (usually to the city and airport).
- Get aroundThe public transport system consists of train, metro, light rail, ferry, and bus services, and can get you virtually anywhere in the city as well as the outer regions.
- Get aroundThe sign "T" in orange means train, "M" in teal means metro, "L" in red means light rail, "F" in green means ferry, "B" in blue means bus, and "C" in purple means coach.
- Get aroundSome ferries and buses have disabled access.
- Get aroundThe fare system covers all train, metro, light rail, ferry and bus services in Sydney, Newcastle, Wollongong and the surrounding regions.
From Wikivoyage: Sydney, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Sydney – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Sydney
Sydney is 51 km from Central Coast, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Bondi Beachsuburb in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia6.7 km
- The Rocksurban locality in Sydney's city centre in New South Wales, Australia1.3 km
- North Sydneysuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.6 km
- Circular Quaylocality in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia800 m
- Mascotsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia7.2 km
- Paddingtonsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2.6 km