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Danbury

Danbury is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, located approximately 50 miles (80 km) northeast of New York City.

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Danbury is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, located approximately 50 miles (80 km) northeast of New York City. Danbury's population as of 2020 was 86,518. It is the third-largest city in Western Connecticut, and the seventh-largest city in Connecticut. The city is part of the Western Connecticut Planning Region. Located within the heart of the Housatonic Valley region, the city is a historic commercial hub of western Connecticut, home to many commuters and summer residents from the New York metropolitan area and New England.

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Getting to Danbury

Airports
LaGuardia (LGA), 77 km · Bradley (BDL), 88 km · John F. Kennedy (JFK), 89 km
  • New York → Danbury
    89 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · $9–12
  • Hartford → Danbury
    76 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · $7–10
  • Newark → Danbury
    95 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · $10–13
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Danbury

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundPrivate cars, limos and party buses are also available to charter.

From Wikivoyage: Ridgefield (Connecticut), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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  5. 05
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