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Rudawa

The Rudawa is a small river in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland.

Rudawa
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The place

The Rudawa is a small river in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland. It is a tributary of the Vistula river. The Rudawa joins the Vistula in Kraków near the district of Zwierzyniec. Through the city, the flow of the river is controlled by artificial embankments. The Rudawa is also one of the sources of drinking water in Kraków with the water intake located in Mydlniki.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Rudawa

Airports
Kraków John Paul II (KRK), 10 km · Katowice Wojciech Korfanty (KTW), 76 km · Leoš Janáček Ostrava (OSR), 135 km
  • Katowice → Rudawa
    52 km · quickest by road, 1h 14m · zł13–18
  • Jasionka → Rudawa
    205 km · quickest by road, 3h 51m · zł65–85
  • Łódź → Rudawa
    184 km · quickest by road, 3h 30m · zł55–75
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Rudawa

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 Rudawa. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inKTW airport is north of Katowice town, but there are connecting minibuses to town and direct to Kraków.
  • Go nextSK-BUS minibuses from Kraków Main Railway Station (Dworzec Główny), or train (direction: Tarnów, Rzeszów, Stróże, Nowy Sącz/Krynica).

From Wikivoyage: Kraków, 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
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    808 km
  2. 02
    KorčulaHR

    9 ways of moving, 33 sources

    816 km
  3. 03
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    822 km
  4. 04
    MljetHR

    9 ways of moving, 28 sources

    834 km
  5. 05
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    1,008 km

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Around it

Next door to Rudawa

Rudawa is 2 km from Kraków, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.