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Buchs

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

Buchs
Buchs · Ermell
The place

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

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Lägern

    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
  2. 02
    Altberg

    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
  3. 03
    Reformierte 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
  4. 04
    Regensberg 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

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.

Go there

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 → Buchs
    276 km · quickest by road, 5h 38m · CHF40–55
  • Bâle / Mulhouse → Buchs
    48 km · quickest by road, 1h 26m · €6–9
  • Friedrichshafen → Buchs
    54 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · €8–11
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Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

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

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    169 km
  2. 02
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    384 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    690 km
  4. 04
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    791 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    794 km

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

Around it

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