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Loket

Loket is a town in Sokolov District in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic.

Loket
Loket · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Loket is a town in Sokolov District in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 3,000 inhabitants. The town proper is located on the Ohře River in the Slavkov Forest highland.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Loket

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
    Loket Castle

    Loket Castle is a 12th-century Gothic castle in Loket in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic. It ls located on a massive rock, surrounded on three sides by the Ohře river.

    100 m · castle in Czech Republic · 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.

Do

Things to do

Rafting Trips. Rafting Ohre. Rafting trips and boat rental. 2-person canoes: 500-750 Kč; 4-person boats: 1,200-2,400Kč. Loket Summer Cultural Festival. End of July. Opera performances.

From Wikivoyage: Loket, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

Old Slavic Restaurant, Zámecká / Kostelní, 70. Authentic options.

From Wikivoyage: Loket, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Loket

Airports
Karlovy Vary (KLV), 12 km · Václav Havel Prague (PRG), 108 km · Dresden (DRS), 127 km
  • Prague → Loket
    119 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · Kč190–255
  • České Budějovice → Loket
    89 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · Kč145–195
  • Pardubice → Loket
    64 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · Kč115–150
  • 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 Loket

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundA week ticket for 220 Kč also gives you a trip on the Diana funicular.

From Wikivoyage: Karlovy Vary, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
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    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    594 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    636 km
  3. 03
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    652 km
  4. 04
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    712 km
  5. 05
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    831 km

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

Around it

Next door to Loket

  • Královské Poříčívillage in Sokolov District of Karlovy Vary region5.3 km
  • Těšovicevillage in Sokolov District of Karlovy Vary region5.5 km
  • Nové Sedlotown in the Czech Republic2.5 km
  • Staré Sedlovillage in Sokolov District of Karlovy Vary region2.5 km
  • Horyvillage in Karlovy Vary District of Karlovy Vary region4 km
  • Jenišovvillage in Karlovy Vary District of Karlovy Vary region5.6 km