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Waal, South Holland

Waal is a hamlet in the Dutch province of South Holland.

Waal, South Holland
Waal, South Holland · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Waal is a hamlet in the Dutch province of South Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Molenlanden, and lies about 13 km north of Gorinchem on the southside of the Lek River.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Waal, South Holland

One place 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
    KNMI-mast Cabauw

    The KNMI-mast Cabauw is a 213-metre high guyed mast for meteorological measurements at Cabauw, the Netherlands. In 1972 at Cabauw a 213 metres high mast was specifically built for meteorological research to establish relations between the state of the atmospheric boundary layer, land surface conditions and the general weather situation for all seasons.

    3.9 km · partially guyed tower in Cabauw, Netherlands · 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 Waal, South Holland

Airports
Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 32 km · Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 42 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 63 km
  • Amsterdam → Waal, South Holland
    49 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · €7–10
  • Eindhoven → Waal, South Holland
    68 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · €9–13
  • Maastricht → Waal, South Holland
    133 km · quickest by road, 3h 5m · €18–26
  • From anywhere
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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 Waal, South Holland

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 Waal, South Holland. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundThe region is easily explored by the various river ferries and 'water taxi' (Veerdienst Gorinchem).
  • Get around{{listing | name | url | address 51.826315 | long | phone | fax | price 2016-07-05 | content= The company provides a local ferry services between Gorinchem, Woudrichem and the village of Sleeuwijk.
  • Get aroundThey also provide water taxi services in the area.
  • Go next{{go | name Loevestein castle | url | address 51.816415 | long out of the city reachable by ferry | phone | fax Oct-Apr: Sa Su 11:00–17:00; May Jun Sep: Tu-Su 11:00–17:00; Jul-Aug: daily 11:00–17:00 | price=€12.50 | lastedit=2016-06-07 | content=Medieval castle on the other shore of the Merwede.

From Wikivoyage: Gorinchem, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
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  2. 02
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    LundyGB

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  4. 04
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

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  5. 05
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

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Around it

Next door to Waal, South Holland

Waal, South Holland is 23 km from Utrecht, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.