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Dübendorf

Dübendorf is a municipality in the district of Uster in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.

Dübendorf
Dübendorf · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Dübendorf is a municipality in the district of Uster in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Dübendorf

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
    Air Force and Air Defense Museum

    The Flieger Flab Museum is located in the Canton of Zurich in Dübendorf on the grounds of Dübendorf Air Base. In the museum, 40 airplanes and helicopters are displayed, with the collection divided into distinct eras: pioneers and World War I, the 1930s, World War II and the postwar period, the beginning of the jet age, the development of jet fighters, the Cold War, and arms reduction.

    2.3 km · museum exhibition in Dübendorf in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Glattzentrum

    The Glattzentrum, more formally known as the Einkaufszentrum Glatt or Glatt shopping centre, is a shopping mall located in the Glatt Valley close to the Swiss city of Zurich. Politically, the mall is situated in the municipality of Wallisellen.

    1.8 km · Shopping mall in the Glatt Valley to the north of the Swiss city of Zurich · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Eawag

    The Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology is a Swiss water research institute and an internationally networked institution. As part of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain, it is an institution of the Federal Department of Home Affairs of the Swiss Confederation.

    1.5 km · Swiss federal research institute · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Jabee Tower

    The JaBee Tower is a residential high-rise building in the Dübendorf municipality of Zürich, Switzerland. Built between 2016 and 2019, the tower stands at 100 m tall with 28 floors and is the current 10th tallest building in Switzerland.

    2.3 km · High-rise building in Dübendorf, 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.

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Getting to Dübendorf

Airports
Zürich (ZRH), 7 km · Bodensee Friedrichshafen (FDH), 73 km · EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 85 km
Stations
Wallisellen railway station, 1.9 km · Stettbach railway station, 2.7 km · Dietlikon railway station, 500 m · Dübendorf railway station, 1.9 km · Bassersdorf railway station, 2.5 km
  • Geneva → Dübendorf
    230 km · quickest by road, 4h 9m · CHF29–39
  • Friedrichshafen → Dübendorf
    71 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · €13–18
  • Bâle / Mulhouse → Dübendorf
    85 km · quickest by road, 1h 55m · €10–14
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Dübendorf

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 Dübendorf. 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

    375 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    700 km
  4. 04
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    777 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    808 km

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

Around it

Next door to Dübendorf

Dübendorf is 7 km from Zürich, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.