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Weggis

Weggis is a municipality in the district of Lucerne in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland.

Weggis
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The place

Weggis is a municipality in the district of Lucerne in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Weggis

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
    Lake Lucerne

    Lake Lucerne; French: lac des Quatre-Cantons; Italian: lago dei Quattro Cantoni) is a lake in central Switzerland and the fourth largest in the country.

    2.9 km · lake at Lucerne, 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 Weggis

Airports
Zürich (ZRH), 48 km · EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 93 km · Bodensee Friedrichshafen (FDH), 108 km
Stations
Weggis landing stage, 200 m · Rigi Staffel station, 3.8 km
  • Zurich → Weggis
    38 km · quickest by road, 1h 5m · CHF5–7
  • Geneva → Weggis
    198 km · quickest by road, 4h 18m · CHF30–40
  • Bâle / Mulhouse → Weggis
    114 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · €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 Weggis

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe most scenic way to reach Weggis are the scheduled Lake Lucerne ferries from Lucerne, which take around 45 minutes and run approximately hourly.
  • Get inThe ferries stop at both Hertenstein and Central Weggis, about 2.3 km apart.
  • Get inThe bus station is just around the corner from the ferry stop.
  • Get inFinally, there is a cable car to Rigi, located some 800 mostly uphill meters away from the bus station.
  • Go nextRigi, the Queen of the Mountains, can easily be reached by cable car.

From Wikivoyage: Weggis, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2022-01.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    124 km
  2. 02
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    338 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    736 km
  4. 04
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    765 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    819 km

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

Around it

Next door to Weggis

Weggis is 38 km from Zürich, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Greppenmunicipality in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland2.4 km
  • Rigi Kaltbadvillage in Switzerland2.8 km