Portlethen
Portlethen is a town located approximately 7 miles south of Aberdeen, Scotland, along the A92.

Portlethen is a town located approximately 7 miles south of Aberdeen, Scotland, along the A92. The population according to the 2022 census was 8,969, making it the seventh most populous settlement within Aberdeenshire.
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Getting to Portlethen
- Airports
- Aberdeen (ABZ), 16 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 145 km · Glasgow (GLA), 194 km
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Portlethen146 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · £17–23
- Glasgow → Portlethen187 km · quickest by road, 3h 20m · £20–27
- Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Portlethen235 km · quickest by road, 5h 59m · £36–48
- 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 Portlethen
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 Portlethen. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inAberdeen is the transport hub for the county, with good air, rail and road connections, and car ferries to Orkney and the Shetland Islands.
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