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Bitgum

Bitgum is a village in Waadhoeke municipality in the province of Friesland in the Netherlands.

Bitgum
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The place

Bitgum is a village in Waadhoeke municipality in the province of Friesland in the Netherlands. It had a population of around 792 in January 2017.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Bitgum

Airports
Groningen Eelde (GRQ), 61 km · Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 120 km · Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 165 km
  • Groningen → Bitgum
    59 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · €7–10
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  • Amsterdam → Bitgum
    110 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · €14–19
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  • Rotterdam → Bitgum
    167 km · quickest by road, 3h 16m · €20–29
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No local-transport research exists yet for Bitgum

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFor Texel take the highway up north to Den Helder and take the (car) ferry to Texel.
  • Get inThen follow the signs 'Harlingen' and 'Ferry'.
  • Get inFor Ameland, follow the signs 'Leeuwarden' and from there 'Holwerd' and the ferry signs.
  • Get inFor Schiermonnikoog from 'Leeuwarden' follow the signs 'Dokkum' and from there 'Lauwersoog' and look for the ferry sign.
  • Get inThe ferries to the islands can be reached by train and bus.

From Wikivoyage: West Frisian Islands, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-08.

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

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    47 km
  2. 02
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    548 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    556 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    741 km
  5. 05
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    746 km

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