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Makkum

Makkum is a village of Súdwest-Fryslân municipality, west of Bolsward on the banks of the lake IJsselmeer in the province Friesland of the Netherlands.

Makkum
Makkum · Dominicus Johannes Bergsma
The place

Makkum is a village of Súdwest-Fryslân municipality, west of Bolsward on the banks of the lake IJsselmeer in the province Friesland of the Netherlands. It had a population of around 3,460 in January 2017, making it the largest village of the former municipally Wûnseradiel. North and south of Makkum are nature reserves Noardwaard and Súdwaard. Belonging to Makkum is the hamlet Ingwier.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Makkum

Airports
Groningen Eelde (GRQ), 79 km · Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 94 km · Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 139 km
  • Groningen → Makkum
    80 km · quickest by road, 1h 59m · €10–14
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  • Amsterdam → Makkum
    83 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · €11–15
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  • Rotterdam → Makkum
    141 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · €18–25
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No local-transport research exists yet for Makkum

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextThe old harbour town of Harlingen is 30 minutes away, and is also the ferry terminal for services to the Wadden islands of Vlieland and Terschelling.

From Wikivoyage: Bolsward, 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
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    37 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    530 km
  3. 03
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    575 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    718 km
  5. 05
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    738 km

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