Sempach
Sempach is a municipality and a historic town in the district of Sursee in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland.
Sempach is a municipality and a historic town in the district of Sursee in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland.
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Worth seeing in and around Sempach
2 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.
- 01Swiss Ornithological Institute
The Swiss Ornithological Institute is a non-profit foundation headquartered in Sempach in the district of Sursee in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland dedicated to the study and conservation of birds. The Swiss Ornithological Institute was founded in 1924 as a ringing station for researching bird migration in the Alpine region.
800 m · institute for ornithological research and protection · Wikipedia - 02battle chapel
Schlachtkapelle is a term used in Switzerland for a chapel dedicated to the memory of one of the battles of the Old Swiss Confederacy.
1.7 km · chapel and memorial commemorating battles of the ancient Confederates in 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.
Getting to Sempach
- Airports
- Zürich (ZRH), 45 km · EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 73 km · Bodensee Friedrichshafen (FDH), 115 km
- Stations
- Sempach-Neuenkirch railway station, 1.9 km
- Zurich → Sempach37 km · quickest by road, 1h 9m · CHF6–8
- Geneva → Sempach187 km · quickest by road, 3h 38m · CHF26–35
- Bâle / Mulhouse → Sempach93 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · €12–16
- 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 Sempach
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 Sempach. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inSchifffahrtsgesellschaft Vierwaldstättersee operates roughly hourly scheduled ferries to Schwyz, Flüelen, Weggis (for Rigi), and runs various themed dinner cruises etc all year around.
- Go nextRigi, the "Queen of Mountains", less than an hour away by ferry.
From Wikivoyage: Lucerne, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Sempach – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Sempach
Sempach is 37 km from Zürich, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Neuenkirchmunicipality in the canton of Lucerne, Switzerland3.7 km
- Hildisriedenmunicipality in the canton of Lucerne, Switzerland2.9 km
- Eichmunicipality in the canton of Lucerne, Switzerland3.1 km