Affoltern District
Affoltern District is one of the twelve districts of the German-speaking canton of Zürich, Switzerland.
Affoltern District is one of the twelve districts of the German-speaking canton of Zürich, Switzerland. Its capital is the city of Affoltern am Albis.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Affoltern District
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.
- 01Türlersee
Türlersee is a lake in the district of Affoltern, Canton of Zurich, Switzerland. It lies on the border of the municipalities of Aeugst and Hausen am Albis at an elevation of 643 m.
2.7 km · lake in the district of Affoltern, Canton of Zurich, Switzerland · 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 Affoltern District
- Airports
- Zürich (ZRH), 22 km · EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 80 km · Bodensee Friedrichshafen (FDH), 91 km
- Stations
- Affoltern am Albis railway station, 1.8 km · Hedingen railway station, 3.9 km · Mettmenstetten railway station, 2.6 km
- Geneva → Affoltern District155 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · CHF20–26
- Bâle / Mulhouse → Affoltern District81 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · €11–16
- Friedrichshafen → Affoltern District147 km · quickest by road, 4h · €23–32
- 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 Affoltern District
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 Affoltern District. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextA bit further away, but also worth a day trip: Appenzell — As close to the stereotypical image of Switzerland with wooden farm houses and traditional clothes as it gets.
From Wikivoyage: Zurich, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
- 01149 km
- 02362 km
- 03712 km
- 04777 km
- 05807 km
If you know how people move in Affoltern District – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Affoltern District
Affoltern District is 13 km from Zürich, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Affoltern am Albismunicipality in Switzerland2.1 km
- Aeugst am Albismunicipality in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland1.4 km
- Hedingenmunicipality in Switzerland3.8 km
- Mettmenstettenmunicipality in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland2.4 km
- Obfeldenmunicipality in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland3.2 km
- Rifferswilmunicipality in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland3.7 km