Oberwil
Oberwil is a municipality in the district of Arlesheim in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.
Oberwil is a municipality in the district of Arlesheim in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.
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Worth seeing in and around Oberwil
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.
- 01Bottmingen Castle
Bottmingen Castle is a castle in the municipality of Bottmingen in the canton of Basel-Land in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.
1.7 km · Castle in Bottmingen in the canton of Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland · Wikipedia
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Getting to Oberwil
- Airports
- EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 10 km · Zürich (ZRH), 75 km · Strasbourg (SXB), 114 km
- Zurich → Oberwil76 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · CHF9–12
- Geneva → Oberwil181 km · quickest by road, 3h 46m · CHF26–35
- Strasbourg → Oberwil120 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · €14–20
- 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 Oberwil
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 Oberwil. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inBut these are scenic cruises taking 8 days to tour the cities along the way; they're not point-to-point ferries.
- Get aroundYou can be carried across the Rhine by Fähri, one of Basel's four small ferry boats, which, hanging at a steel rope, are silently drawn by the current between the two banks of the river.
- Go nextThe following destinations are good day trips by train from Basel: Zürich, Bern, Interlaken (see below), Lucerne (see below), Schaffhausen — all in Switzerland, 1–2 hours from the main station (Bahnhof SBB).
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Next door to Oberwil
- Allschwilmunicipality in the canton of Basel-Land in Switzerland3.9 km
- Binningenmunicipality in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland2.2 km
- Reinachmunicipality in the canton of Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland4 km
- Bottmingenmunicipality in the canton of Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland1.7 km
- Therwilmunicipality in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland1.9 km
- Witterswilmunicipality in Switzerland3.8 km