Victoria
Worth seeing in and around Victoria
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.
- 01
- 02British Columbia Parliament Buildings
Parliament building complex in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
2.3 km · Wikipedia - 03Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
Single house of the Parliament of British Columbia
2.3 km · Wikipedia - 04
- 05
- 06
- 07Craigdarroch Castle
Historic house museum (victorian era) in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
1.6 km · Wikipedia - 08
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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 Victoria
- Airports
- Victoria (YYJ), 24 km · Vancouver (YVR), 85 km · Seattle–Tacoma (SEA), 134 km
- Stations
- Victoria Inner Harbour Airport, 2 km · Victoria station, 1.7 km
- Vancouver → Victoria92 km · quickest by road, 5h 1m · C$19–26
- Kelowna → Victoria324 km · quickest by air, 5h 3m · C$160–240
- Calgary → Victoria726 km · quickest by air, 5h 19m · C$200–300
- 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 Victoria
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 Victoria. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get in}} Victoria (Swartz Bay) ferry terminal is served by BC Transit.
- Get inRoute 70 operates between Victoria (Swartz Bay) ferry terminal and downtown Victoria via downtown Sidney and McTavish Exchange.
- Get inRoute 72 operates between Victoria (Swartz Bay) ferry terminal and downtown Victoria via downtown Sidney and McTavish Exchange.
- Get inAbout half an hour drive north of Victoria, there are ferry services in Sidney.
- Get inOperates routes from: Vancouver (Tsawwassen) ferry terminal (1 hour 35 minutes crossing.
From Wikivoyage: Victoria (British Columbia), 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 Victoria – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
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