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Bad Honnef

Bad Honnef is a spa town in Germany near Bonn in the Rhein-Sieg district, North Rhine-Westphalia.

Bad Honnef
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The place

Bad Honnef is a spa town in Germany near Bonn in the Rhein-Sieg district, North Rhine-Westphalia. It is located on the border of the neighbouring state Rhineland-Palatinate. To the north it lies on the slopes of the Drachenfels mountain, part of the Siebengebirge.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bad Honnef

7 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
    Siebengebirge

    The Siebengebirge, occasionally Sieben Mountains or Seven Mountains, are a hill range of the German Central Uplands on the east bank of the Middle Rhine, southeast of Bonn.

    4.1 km · German hill range on the east bank of the Rhine · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Drachenfels

    The Drachenfels is a hill ) in the Siebengebirge uplands between Königswinter and Bad Honnef in Germany. The hill was formed by rising magma that could not break through to the surface, and then cooled and became solid underneath.

    2.6 km · mountain in the Siebengebirge mountain range, Germany · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Petersberg

    The Petersberg ), formerly known as the Stromberg, is a mountain in the Siebengebirge mountain range near Bonn, Germany. It overlooks the cities of Königswinter, on the right bank of the Rhine river, and Bonn on the opposite side.

    4.8 km · mountain in the Siebengebirge mountain range near Bonn, Germany · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Rodderberg

    The Rodderberg is an extinct volcano in the east of the municipality of Wachtberg near Bonn, Germany. The last eruption was 250,000 years ago.

    2 km · mountain in Wachtberg, Germany; geonames ID = 2846120 · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Asberg

    The Asberg is a hill, 441 m above sea level, on the Rheinwesterwald Volcanic Ridge on the northern edge of the Linz Heights. Until the 1970s it was the site of a basalt quarry.

    5.3 km · mountain of the Westerwald · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Großer Ölberg

    The Großer Ölberg, at 460 metres above sea level, is the highest hill in the Siebengebirge range in Germany. It is located in the borough of Königswinter near the village of Ittenbach and south of a subpeak known as the Kleiner Ölberg ).

    4.4 km · highest mountain in the Siebengebirge mountain range, Germany · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Hotel Petersberg

    The Hotel Petersberg is a hotel and official guest house of Germany, termed the "Bundesgästehaus". It is located on the Petersberg, a prominent mountain of the Siebengebirge near Bonn, Germany.

    4.8 km · building in Königswinter near Bonn, Germany · 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.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Rheininsel Grafenwerth
  2. 02
    Stiftung Bundeskanzler-Adenauer-Haus
  3. 03
    Siebengebirge

From Wikivoyage: Bad Honnef, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

Rheinsteig. Walk part of this long distance trail Rhein in Flammen (Rhine in Flames): early May. Between Linz am Rhein and Bonn (date needs fixing)

From Wikivoyage: Bad Honnef, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    Burgermeisterei
  2. 02
    Ristorante Caesareo

    Rhöndorfer Straße 39,.

From Wikivoyage: Bad Honnef, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Bad Honnef

Airports
Cologne Bonn (CGN), 25 km · Frankfurt-Hahn (HHN), 78 km · Düsseldorf (DUS), 79 km
Stations
Rolandseck station, 2.1 km · Unkel station, 4.7 km · Rhöndorf station, 1.9 km · Bonn-Mehlem station, 4.2 km · Königswinter station, 4.4 km
  • Frankfurt am Main (Lautzenhausen) → Bad Honnef
    119 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · €15–21
  • Düsseldorf → Bad Honnef
    72 km · quickest by road, 1h 30m · €8–12
  • Dortmund → Bad Honnef
    98 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · €13–18
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bad Honnef

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inBy boat, you can reach Bad Honnef with the tourist boats on the Rhine and by ferry from Rolandseck, but this is not useful only if you live in Bonn.

From Wikivoyage: Bad Honnef, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03.

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

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    330 km
  2. 02
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    516 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    601 km
  4. 04
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    701 km
  5. 05
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    748 km

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

Around it

Next door to Bad Honnef

Bad Honnef is 14 km from Bonn, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Königswintertown in the Rhein-Sieg district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany5.3 km
  • Unkeltown in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany5 km
  • Rheinbreitbachmunicipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany2.8 km
  • Bruchhausenmunicipality of Germany4.9 km
  • Aegidienbergcity district of Bad Honnef, Germany5.5 km
  • Rolandseckhuman settlement in Germany2.2 km