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Augst

Augst is a municipality in the district of Liestal in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.

Augst
Augst · Krzysztof Popławski
The place

Augst is a municipality in the district of Liestal in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland. It was known as Augusta Raurica in Roman times.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Augst

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
    Ruins Altenberg

    Altenberg Castle is a ruined castle in the municipality of Füllinsdorf in the canton of Basel-Land in Switzerland.

    3.2 km · castle ruin in Füllinsdorf in the canton of Basel-Landschaft, 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.

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Getting to Augst

Airports
EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 16 km · Zürich (ZRH), 63 km · Strasbourg (SXB), 112 km
Stations
Frenkendorf-Füllinsdorf railway station, 3.5 km · Pratteln railway station, 2.3 km · Pratteln Salina Raurica station, 600 m · Kaiseraugst railway station, 800 m · Herten (Baden) railway station, 2.5 km
  • Zurich → Augst
    66 km · quickest by road, 1h 27m · CHF8–10
  • Geneva → Augst
    190 km · quickest by road, 3h 30m · CHF25–33
  • Strasbourg → Augst
    117 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · €16–22
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Augst

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextFrom here you can take a cable car up into the hills where you can enjoy a rope park, many hikes, cross-country skiing or snow-shoeing, and finally hire a scooter to ride back down into the valley.

From Wikivoyage: Liestal, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    168 km
  2. 02
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    409 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    667 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    744 km
  5. 05
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    840 km

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

Around it

Next door to Augst

  • Prattelnmunicipality in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland2.4 km
  • Kaiseraugstmunicipality in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland1.2 km
  • Füllinsdorfmunicipality in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland3.2 km
  • Frenkendorfmunicipality in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland3.4 km
  • Giebenachmunicipality in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland2.4 km