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Thalwil

Thalwil is a municipality and town in the district of Horgen in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.

Thalwil
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The place

Thalwil is a municipality and town in the district of Horgen in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. The municipality includes two parts: Thalwil and Gattikon.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Thalwil

10 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
    Bürglen

    The Bürglen is the highest mountain of the Albis, a wooded range stretching west of Lake Zurich in the Swiss canton of Zurich. It is located between Hausen am Albis and the valley of the Sihl.

    3.6 km · mountain in Switzerland · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Albis Pass

    Albis Pass is a mountain pass in the Albis range in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

    3.4 km · mountain pass · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Zimmerberg

    The Zimmerberg ) is a mountain and a region in the district of Horgen in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland.

    1.4 km · mountain · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    C. G. Jung residence

    The C. G. Jung House Museum is a historic house museum. It was the residence of the Swiss psychiatrist, psychologist, and essayist Carl Jung as well as his wife, psychologist Emma Jung-Rauschenbach.

    3.3 km · residential building in Küsnacht in the canton of Zurich Switzerland · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Park im Grüene

    Park im Grüene is a public park and a small amusement park in the municipality of Rüschlikon in Switzerland. The park area comprises the former estate of Adele and Gottlieb Duttweiler that went to public use in 1947.

    2.2 km · Amusement park in Rüschlikon, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Goldcoast

    The Swiss Goldcoast is the name given to the lower eastern shore of the Lake Zurich in the Swiss canton of Zurich. This prosperous region lies on the north-eastern shore of the lake and thus benefits from the evening sun.

    3.3 km · eastern shore of the Lake of Zürich · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Zürcher Museums-Bahn

    The Zürcher Museums-Bahn is a heritage railway association based in the Swiss city of Zurich. It operates occasional services over the Sihltal line of the Sihltal Zürich Uetliberg Bahn, and preserves rolling stock, much of which formerly belonged to that operator.

    1.7 km · museum in Switzerland · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    IBM Research – Zurich

    IBM Research is the research and development division for IBM, an American multinational information technology company. IBM Research is headquartered at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, near IBM headquarters in Armonk, New York.

    3.4 km · research institute in Rüschlikon, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    castle ruins "Schnabelburg" and other fortifications

    Schnabelburg Castle was a small castle erected in 1150 by the lords of Eschenbach on the Albis chain southwest of Zürich, Switzerland, overlooking the nearby Schnabellücken pass. In 1309 the Schnabelburg was attacked by the Habsburgs, in revenge for the participation of Walter von Eschenbach in the murder of Albert I of Germany.

    3.4 km · castle ruins in Hausen am Albis in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Langenberg Wildlife Park

    Langenberg Wildlife Park is a zoo situated in the municipality of Langnau am Albis in the Sihl Valley to the south of the city of Zürich in Switzerland. The wildlife park now forms part of the Zürich Wilderness Park.

    3 km · zoo in south of Zürich, 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 Thalwil

Airports
Zürich (ZRH), 19 km · Bodensee Friedrichshafen (FDH), 83 km · EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 86 km
Stations
Thalwil railway station, 1.4 km · Horgen railway station, 3.3 km · Langnau-Gattikon railway station, 1.7 km · Rüschlikon railway station, 2.8 km · Sihlwald railway station, 1.8 km
  • Geneva → Thalwil
    220 km · quickest by road, 4h 14m · CHF30–40
  • Friedrichshafen → Thalwil
    80 km · quickest by road, 3h · €15–20
  • Bâle / Mulhouse → Thalwil
    105 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · €14–20
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Thalwil

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 Thalwil. 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

    154 km
  2. 02
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    362 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    713 km
  4. 04
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    772 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    813 km

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

Around it

Next door to Thalwil

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

  • Horgenmunicipality in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland3.4 km
  • Erlenbachmunicipality in Switzerland3 km
  • Rüschlikonmunicipality in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland2.9 km
  • Langnau am Albismunicipality in Switzerland2 km
  • Oberriedenmunicipality in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland1.1 km
  • Feldmeilenvillage in the municipality of Meilen in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland3.8 km