Kimberley
Worth seeing in and around Kimberley
10 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.
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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.
Getting to Kimberley
- Airports
- Kimberley (KIM), 8 km · Bram Fischer (BFN), 155 km · Moshoeshoe I (MSU), 283 km
- Stations
- Kimberley railway station, 800 m
- Bloemfontein → Kimberley148 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · R145–195
- Johannesburg → Kimberley429 km · quickest by air, 4h 43m · R1,220–1,890
- East London → Kimberley563 km · quickest by air, 4h 21m · R1,150–1,790
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Kimberley
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 Kimberley. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inAll of them are on round trip tours not point-to-point ferry lines.
- Get aroundBut most of it is unsealed, passable only in the Dry by high-clearance 4WD: visitors should aim for June-Aug when that dry is assured.
- Get aroundThey're 4WD only, and filling stations are as frequent as those in the Martian deserts.
- Go nextSouth is desert, but in the Dry with 4WD you can follow Tanami Road to Alice Springs.
From Wikivoyage: Kimberley (Western Australia), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.
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If you know how people move in Kimberley – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Kimberley
- Griqualand Westarea of central South Africa2 km
- GalesheweTownship in Kimberley, South Africa4 km
- Beaconsfield, Kimberleyhuman settlement in South Africa3.4 km