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Regional Municipality of Durham

The Regional Municipality of Durham, informally referred to as Durham Region, is a regional municipality in Southern Ontario, Canada.

Regional Municipality of Durham
Regional Municipality of Durham · Wikimedia Commons
The place

The Regional Municipality of Durham, informally referred to as Durham Region, is a regional municipality in Southern Ontario, Canada. Located east of Toronto and the Regional Municipality of York, it forms the east end of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and is part of the Golden Horseshoe region. It has an area of approximately 2,500 km2 (970 sq mi). The regional government is headquartered in Whitby.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Regional Municipality of Durham

3 places 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.

  1. 01
    Whitby Mall

    The Whitby Mall Shopping Centre is a shopping mall located in Whitby, Ontario, Canada.

    4 km · shopping mall · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Ontario Regiment Museum

    The Ontario Regiment Museum is a military museum located in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. The museum is located on the South Field of the Oshawa Municipal Airport, 1000 Stevenson Rd N, Oshawa, Ontario.

    3.2 km · Canadian forces museum; component of The oshawa military and industrial museum in Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Oshawa Military and Industrial Museum

    The Oshawa Military and Industrial Museum, also known as The Ontario Regiment "Ferret Club," is an accredited Canadian Forces Museum located in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1980, it has evolved into the Historic Vehicle Section of the Ontario Regiment Museum.

    3.1 km · accredited Canadian Forces Museum · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Regional Municipality of Durham

Airports
Toronto Pearson (YYZ), 62 km · Buffalo Niagara (BUF), 110 km · John C. Munro Hamilton (YHM), 115 km
Stations
Oshawa Airport, 3 km
  • Toronto → Regional Municipality of Durham
    51 km · quickest by road, 1h 26m · C$8–11
  • Hamilton → Regional Municipality of Durham
    13951 km · quickest by air, 31h 15m · NZ$3,090–4,780
  • Ottawa → Regional Municipality of Durham
    299 km · quickest by road, 6h 3m · C$50–70
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Regional Municipality of Durham

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 Regional Municipality of Durham. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inA few operators offer charter flights for groups of six to nine corporate passengers, but there are no scheduled passenger flights.

From Wikivoyage: Whitby (Ontario), 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
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    599 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    808 km
  3. 03
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    2,942 km
  4. 04
    Caye CaulkerBZ

    9 ways of moving, 42 sources

    3,033 km
  5. 05
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    3,133 km

If you know how people move in Regional Municipality of Durham – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Regional Municipality of Durham

Regional Municipality of Durham is 27 km from Markham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Whitby—Oshawaprovincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada2 km
  • Whitbyfederal electoral district in Ontario, Canada (Since 2015)2.6 km