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Rümlang

Rümlang is a municipality in the district of Dielsdorf in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland, and belongs to the Glatt Valley.

Rümlang
Rümlang · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Rümlang is a municipality in the district of Dielsdorf in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland, and belongs to the Glatt Valley. Zurich Airport is partially located in Rümlang.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Rümlang

4 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
    Katzensee

    Katzensee is a lake on the border of the city of Zürich and Regensdorf in the Canton of Zürich, Switzerland. Its surface area is 36 ha.

    3.6 km · lake in canton of Zürich, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Kalaidos University of Applied Sciences

    The Kalaidos University of Applied Sciences Switzerland is a University of Applied Sciences in Switzerland with the departments of Business and Management, Law, Health, Music and Applied Psychology. It was founded in 1997 and today is one of ten accredited Swiss Universities of Applied Sciences, being the only privately owned one.

    3.9 km · University in Switzerland · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Wahlenpark

    The Wahlenpark is a public park in New Oerlikon in the northern part of Zurich. The park covers 139,931 ft².

    3.9 km · park in the city of Zürich, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Oerliker Park

    The Oerliker Park is a public multi-purpose district park covering 188,000 square feet in Oerlikon, just to the north of Zürich. The Oerliker Park was created by the Grün Stadt Zürich in 2001 as part of the regional development project "Zentrum Zürich Nord" and was the first of four parks.

    3.9 km · Park in Zurich, Switzerland · 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 Rümlang

Airports
Zürich (ZRH), 1 km · Bodensee Friedrichshafen (FDH), 77 km · EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 78 km
Stations
Zurich Airport, 1.4 km · Zurich Airport railway station, 2.2 km · Zürich Seebach railway station, 3.6 km · Zürich Affoltern railway station, 3.7 km · Kloten railway station, 3.7 km
  • Geneva → Rümlang
    228 km · quickest by road, 4h 5m · CHF29–39
  • Friedrichshafen → Rümlang
    75 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · €12–17
  • Bâle / Mulhouse → Rümlang
    95 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · €13–18
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Rümlang

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextA bit further away, but also worth a day trip: Appenzell — As close to the stereotypical image of Switzerland with wooden farm houses and traditional clothes as it gets.

From Wikivoyage: Zurich, 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
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    170 km
  2. 02
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    381 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    695 km
  4. 04
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    784 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    801 km

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

Around it

Next door to Rümlang

Rümlang is 9 km from Zürich, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Klotenmunicipality and town in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland3.7 km
  • Opfikonmunicipality in Switzerland3.5 km
  • Oberglattmunicipality in Switzerland3.2 km
  • Oerlikonsuburb and quarter of the Swiss city of Zurich3.9 km
  • Seebachquarter of the city of Zurich, Switzerland3.6 km
  • Affolternquarter of the city of Zurich, Switzerland3.8 km