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Cabauw

Cabauw is a village in the Dutch province of Utrecht.

Cabauw
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The place

Cabauw is a village in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is part of the municipality of Lopik, and lies about 12 km southwest of IJsselstein. Cabauw consists of a small village centre, and a ribbon of farms along the Lopikerwetering canal, between Zevender and Lopik.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Cabauw

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
    KNMI-mast Cabauw

    The KNMI-mast Cabauw is a 213-metre high guyed mast for meteorological measurements at Cabauw, the Netherlands. In 1972 at Cabauw a 213 metres high mast was specifically built for meteorological research to establish relations between the state of the atmospheric boundary layer, land surface conditions and the general weather situation for all seasons.

    2 km · partially guyed tower in Cabauw, Netherlands · 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 Cabauw

Airports
Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 32 km · Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 39 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 66 km
  • Eindhoven → Cabauw
    71 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · €10–13
  • Maastricht → Cabauw
    136 km · quickest by road, 3h 10m · €19–26
  • Groningen → Cabauw
    179 km · quickest by road, 3h 33m · €22–31
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Cabauw

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThere are no ferry or waterbus services to Gouda, but when you own a boat, there are facilities to stay in Gouda.

From Wikivoyage: Gouda, 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
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    146 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    454 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    667 km
  4. 04
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    682 km
  5. 05
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    693 km

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

Around it

Next door to Cabauw

Cabauw is 21 km from Utrecht, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.