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Municipality in Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland

Gelterkinden

Gelterkinden is a municipality in the district of Sissach in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.

Gelterkinden
Gelterkinden · --Nightflyer
The place

Gelterkinden is a municipality in the district of Sissach in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Gelterkinden

2 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
    Bischofstein Castle

    Bishofstein Castle is a castle in the municipality of Sissach of the canton of Basel-Land in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

    2.8 km · castle ruin in Sissach in the canton of Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland. · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Sissacherfluh Ruin

    Ruins of Sissacherfluh Castle is a castle in the municipality of Sissach of the canton of Basel-Land in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

    3.6 km · castle / settlement ruins in Sissach in the canton of Basel-Landschaft, 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 Gelterkinden

Airports
EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 29 km · Zürich (ZRH), 54 km · Strasbourg (SXB), 122 km
Stations
Itingen railway station, 4 km · Sissach railway station, 2.1 km · Sommerau railway station, 1.8 km · Diepflingen railway station, 300 m · Gelterkinden railway station, 2.1 km
  • Zurich → Gelterkinden
    54 km · quickest by road, 1h 33m · CHF7–9
  • Geneva → Gelterkinden
    191 km · quickest by road, 3h 27m · CHF24–32
  • Strasbourg → Gelterkinden
    125 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · €17–24
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Gelterkinden

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextFrom here you can take a cable car up into the hills where you can enjoy a rope park, many hikes, cross-country skiing or snow-shoeing, and finally hire a scooter to ride back down into the valley.

From Wikivoyage: Liestal, 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

    159 km
  2. 02
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    397 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    678 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    756 km
  5. 05
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    828 km

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

Around it

Next door to Gelterkinden

Gelterkinden is 55 km from Zürich, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Sissachmunicipality and capital of the district of Sissach in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland2.3 km
  • Zunzgenmunicipality in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland1.9 km
  • Böcktenmunicipality in the canton of Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland1.4 km
  • Ormalingenmunicipality in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland4 km
  • Diepflingenmunicipality in Switzerland500 m
  • Tecknaumunicipality in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland3.8 km