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Dyce

Dyce is a suburb town of Aberdeen, Scotland, situated on the River Don about 6 mi (10 km) northwest of the city centre.

Dyce
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The place

Dyce is a suburb town of Aberdeen, Scotland, situated on the River Don about 6 mi (10 km) northwest of the city centre. It is best known as the location of Aberdeen Airport.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Dyce

6 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
    Rowett Research Institute

    The Rowett Institute is a research centre for studies into food and nutrition, located in Aberdeen, Scotland.

    2 km · research institute in Aberdeen City, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Brimmond Hill

    Brimmond Hill is a hill in Aberdeen, Scotland. The summit is the highest point within the Aberdeen City council area, at an elevation of 266 m.

    4.4 km · hill in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Stewart Park, Aberdeen

    Stewart Park is located in Aberdeen, Scotland. It is a 5-acre site owned by Aberdeen City Council.

    5.2 km · park in Aberdeen City, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Dubford

    Dubford is a housing estate of approximately 550 homes, north of Denmore within the Bridge of Don suburb in the north of Aberdeen, Scotland. Dubford takes its name from the farmstead on which it was built.

    5.5 km · housing estate in Bridge of Don, Aberdeen City, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    P&J Live

    P&J Live is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Aberdeen, Scotland. Opened in August 2019, it offers a capacity for all types of shows and events from 5,000 to 15,000.

    2 km · arena in Aberdeen City, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Elphinstone Hall

    Elphinstone Hall is a large hall belonging to the University of Aberdeen, located at their King's College campus in Old Aberdeen. It is a 20th-century building which replaced the "Common Hall" and is named after Bishop William Elphinstone, the founder of the university.

    5.9 km · university building in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK · 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 Dyce

Airports
Aberdeen (ABZ), 0 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 157 km · Glasgow (GLA), 202 km
Stations
Aberdeen Airport, 400 m · Dyce railway station, 300 m · Parkhill railway station, 2 km · Bucksburn railway station, 3.1 km · Pitmedden railway station, 3.3 km
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Dyce
    158 km · quickest by road, 3h 10m · £19–25
  • Glasgow → Dyce
    196 km · quickest by road, 3h 39m · £22–29
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Dyce
    242 km · quickest by road, 4h 28m · £27–36
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Dyce

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inAberdeen is the transport hub for the county, with good air, rail and road connections, and car ferries to Orkney and the Shetland Islands.

From Wikivoyage: Aberdeenshire, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Kirkwall and the Orkney IslandsGB

    9 ways of moving, 33 sources

    203 km
  2. 02
    Isle of SkyeGB

    12 ways of moving, 18 sources

    245 km
  3. 03
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    247 km
  4. 04
    The Small Isles - Eigg, Muck, Rum and CannaGB

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    253 km
  5. 05
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    256 km

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

Around it

Next door to Dyce

  • Blackburntown in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK5.8 km
  • Kingswellssuburb of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK5.1 km
  • Bridge of Donsuburb in the north of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK5.9 km
  • Woodsidearea in the city of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK5.4 km
  • Stoneywoodhuman settlement in Aberdeen City, Scotland, UK1.4 km
  • Northfieldsuburb of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK4.5 km