Buchs
Buchs is a municipality in the district of Dielsdorf in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland.

Buchs is a municipality in the district of Dielsdorf in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland.
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Worth seeing in and around Buchs
4 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.
- 01Lägern
The Lägern is a 866 m high, wooded mountain of the Jura Mountains, stretching from Baden to Dielsdorf, which is located about 15 km north-west of Zurich. The culminating point is located 1 km west of Hochwacht within the canton of Zurich, the border with the canton of Aargau runs across a slightly lower summit named Burghorn, at an elevation of 859 m.
3.4 km · mountain of Switzerland · Wikipedia - 02Altberg
Altberg is a range of hills in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland. It runs between the Limmat Valley in the south and the Furttal valley in the north.
3.8 km · mountain in the Canton of Zurich · Wikipedia - 03Reformierte Kirche Regensberg
Regensberg Reformed Church is an Evangelical Reformed Church in the Swiss municipality of Regensberg in the Canton of Zürich. The church originally dates to 1248, when it was a wooden chapel.
1.9 km · church in Zurich, Switzerland · Wikipedia - 04Regensberg Castle
Regensberg Castle is a hill castle which was built about the mid-13th century AD by the House of Regensberg in the Swiss municipality of Regensberg in the Canton of Zürich.
1.9 km · Castle in Switzerland · Wikipedia
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Getting to Buchs
- Airports
- Zürich (ZRH), 9 km · EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 70 km · Bodensee Friedrichshafen (FDH), 84 km
- Stations
- Buchs-Dällikon railway station, 1.5 km · Otelfingen Golfpark railway station, 2.6 km · Otelfingen railway station, 3.7 km · Dielsdorf railway station, 2.6 km · Schöfflisdorf-Oberweningen railway station, 3.8 km
- Geneva → Buchs276 km · quickest by road, 5h 38m · CHF40–55
- Bâle / Mulhouse → Buchs48 km · quickest by road, 1h 26m · €6–9
- Friedrichshafen → Buchs54 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · €8–11
- 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 Buchs
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 Buchs. 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.
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If you know how people move in Buchs – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Buchs
Buchs is 14 km from Zürich, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Dielsdorf districtdistrict of the canton of Zürich, Switzerland2.2 km
- Dällikonmunicipality in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland2.9 km
- Regensbergmunicipality in Switzerland in Zurich2 km
- Otelfingenmunicipality in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland3.2 km
- Boppelsenmunicipality in Switzerland2.3 km
- Dielsdorfmunicipality in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland2.5 km