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Portlethen

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

Portlethen
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The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Portlethen

Airports
Aberdeen (ABZ), 16 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 145 km · Glasgow (GLA), 194 km
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Portlethen
    146 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · £17–23
  • Glasgow → Portlethen
    187 km · quickest by road, 3h 20m · £20–27
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Portlethen
    235 km · quickest by road, 5h 59m · £36–48
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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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Aberdeenshire, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Kirkwall and the Orkney IslandsGB

    9 ways of moving, 33 sources

    219 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    241 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    248 km
  4. 04
    Isle of SkyeGB

    12 ways of moving, 18 sources

    251 km
  5. 05
    The Small Isles - Eigg, Muck, Rum and CannaGB

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    256 km

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