Welkom

Worth seeing in and around Welkom

One place 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
   North West Stadium

   Building in Africa

   4.3 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 Welkom

Airports

Bram Fischer (BFN), 131 km · Moshoeshoe I (MSU), 183 km · Kimberley (KIM), 214 km

• Bloemfontein → Welkom

  137 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · R150–205
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• Johannesburg → Welkom

  236 km · quickest by road, 3h 40m · R225–300
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• Kimberley → Welkom

  211 km · quickest by road, 4h 38m · R265–355
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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 Welkom

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

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