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Wattenwil

Wattenwil is a municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

Wattenwil
Wattenwil · Werner Friedli
The place

Wattenwil is a municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Wattenwil

3 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
    Dittligsee

    Dittligsee is a lake in the canton of Bern, Switzerland, near Blumenstein and Wattenwil. Its surface area is 6.02 ha.

    2.8 km · little lake in the municipality of Forst-Längenbühl in the canton of Bern, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Geistsee

    Geistsee is a lake at Längenbühl in the canton of Bern, Switzerland. Its surface area is 0.95 ha.

    2.7 km · lake in Switzerland · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Burgistein Castle

    Burgistein Castle is a castle in the municipality of Burgistein in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

    2.3 km · castle in Burgistein in the canton of Bern, 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 Wattenwil

Airports
EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 93 km · Zürich (ZRH), 110 km · Geneva (GVA), 122 km
Stations
Burgistein railway station, 3 km · Seftigen railway station, 3.8 km
  • Zurich → Wattenwil
    103 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · CHF16–21
  • Geneva → Wattenwil
    122 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · CHF18–25
  • Bâle / Mulhouse → Wattenwil
    109 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · €16–22
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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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 Wattenwil

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundA historical walking path through Thun can be found on the Tourism Department's web site [http://www.thun.ch/fileadmin/media/tourismus/rundgang.pdf].

From Wikivoyage: Thun, 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

    85 km
  2. 02
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    340 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    746 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    778 km
  5. 05
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    813 km

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

Around it

Next door to Wattenwil

  • Blumensteinmunicipality in the canton of Bern, Switzerland3.9 km
  • Seftigenmunicipality in the canton of Bern in Switzerland3.8 km
  • Burgisteinmunicipality in the canton of Bern in Switzerland2.8 km
  • Gurzelenmunicipality in the canton of Bern in Switzerland2.8 km
  • Forst-Längenbühlmunicipality in the canton of Bern in Switzerland2.2 km