Warsaw

Worth seeing in and around Warsaw

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.

1. 01
   University of Warsaw

   Largest university in Poland

   1.3 km · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Kazimierz Górski National Stadium

   Football stadium located in Warsaw, Poland

   2.5 km · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Palace of Culture and Science

   High-rise building and house of culture in Warsaw, Poland

   400 m · Wikipedia
4. 04
   National Library of Poland

   National library

   1.9 km · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Royal Castle in Warsaw

   Castle residency in Warsaw, Poland

   2 km · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Wilanów Palace

   Royal palace located in the Wilanów district, Warsaw

   8.9 km · Wikipedia
7. 07
   National Museum in Warsaw

   National museum in Warsaw, Poland

   900 m · Wikipedia
8. 08
   St. John's Archcathedral

   Cathedral

   2.1 km · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Załuski Library

   Library in Warsaw

   1.8 km · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Warsaw University of Technology

    Technical university in Warsaw, Poland

    1.1 km · Wikipedia

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 Warsaw

Airports

Warsaw Chopin (WAW), 8 km · Warsaw Modlin (WMI), 35 km · Łódź Władysław Reymont (LCJ), 124 km

Stations

Warsaw Chopin Airport, 7.7 km · Warsaw Central railway station, 600 m · Warszawa Zachodnia train station, 3.3 km

• Łódź → Warsaw

  117 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · zł30–39
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• Lublin → Warsaw

  153 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · zł37–49
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• Katowice → Warsaw

  259 km · quickest by road, 4h 3m · zł65–90
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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 Warsaw

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 Warsaw. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

If you know how people move in Warsaw – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.