Partick
Partick is an area of Glasgow on the north bank of the River Clyde, just across from Govan.
Partick is an area of Glasgow on the north bank of the River Clyde, just across from Govan. To the west lies Whiteinch, to the east Yorkhill and Kelvingrove Park, and to the north Broomhill, Hyndland, Dowanhill, Hillhead, areas which form part of the West End of Glasgow.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Partick
- Airports
- Glasgow (GLA), 8 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 44 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 59 km
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Partick46 km · quickest by road, 1h 8m · £5–7
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Partick60 km · quickest by road, 1h 15m · £6–8
- Belfast → Partick175 km · quickest by road, 14h 9m · £70–95
- 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 Partick
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 Partick. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThere's a range of long-stay parks off-site, with transfer minibuses.
- Get in(The airport is in "Local" zone, so the "City" zone fare isn't enough.) McGill's Bus 757 trundles every 30 min to Paisley Gilmour Street railway station, which has very frequent trains to Glasgow Central, and outbound to Gourock (for Dunoon ferry), Wemyss Bay (for Bute ferry), Ardrossan (for Arran ferry) and Ayr.
- Get inThe fare is the same by any route: in 2024 a day trip is £15 and an open return is £20.
- Get inFor a day trip, park up at one of the outlying railway stations, if you can find a space among all the commuter vehicles.
- Get inThe crossing takes 2 hr 30 min, with almost a dozen car ferries a day.
From Wikivoyage: Glasgow, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Partick
Partick is 3 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.