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Voorschoten

Voorschoten is a town and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland.

Voorschoten
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The place

Voorschoten is a town and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. It is a smaller town in the Randstad, enclosed by the cities of Leiden, Wassenaar and Leidschendam-Voorburg. The municipality covers an area of 11.56 km2 (4.46 sq mi) of which 0.42 km2 (0.16 sq mi) is covered by water.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Voorschoten

Airports
Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 20 km · Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 29 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 99 km
  • Eindhoven → Voorschoten
    104 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · €13–18
  • Maastricht → Voorschoten
    166 km · quickest by road, 3h 41m · €24–33
  • Groningen → Voorschoten
    187 km · quickest by road, 3h 36m · €22–31
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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 Voorschoten

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundby HTM Bike, Donkey Republic (The Hague) and OV-fiets (requires a personalised OV-chipkaart).

From Wikivoyage: The Hague, 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
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    132 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    430 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    638 km
  4. 04
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    691 km
  5. 05
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    721 km

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

Around it

Next door to Voorschoten

Voorschoten is 12 km from The Hague, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.