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Metropolitan area surrounding Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

Greater Saint John

Greater Saint John is a metropolitan area surrounding Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.

Greater Saint John
Greater Saint John · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Greater Saint John is a metropolitan area surrounding Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. It had a population of 144,543 in 2025. The census metropolitan area of Saint John consists of 17 municipalities and parishes in addition to the City of Saint John.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Greater Saint John

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
    Rockwood Park

    Rockwood Park is an urban park in Saint John, New Brunswick established in 1894. It is 2,200 acres in size, with ten lakes and 55 trails and footpaths.

    3.6 km · city park located in Saint John, New Brunswick · 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 Greater Saint John

Airports
Halifax / Stanfield (YHZ), 206 km
  • Halifax → Greater Saint John
    206 km · quickest by road, 5h 56m · C$49–65
  • Quebec → Greater Saint John
    1989 km · quickest by air, 15h 41m · C$750–1,110
  • Montréal → Greater Saint John
    1761 km · quickest by air, 15h 23m · C$710–1,050
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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 Greater Saint John

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inIf you're travelling from southern Nova Scotia, your best bet is to take Bay Ferries from Digby.
  • Get inSaint John can also be reached by ferry coming from Digby, Nova Scotia.
  • Get inAs of 2024, it is operated by Bay Ferries Ltd.
  • Get inParking is available at the Saint John and Digby ferry terminals.
  • Go nextMartins | image4=Ferry Sign.svg | imagesize4=22 | directionl4= N | majorl4=END | minorl4 S | majorr4=Digby | minorr4= → becomes }}

From Wikivoyage: Saint John, 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
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    262 km
  2. 02
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    777 km
  3. 03
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    2,995 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    3,026 km
  5. 05
    SabaNL

    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

    3,092 km

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

Around it

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