Windang
Windang is a suburb of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, on the southern tip of the peninsula guarding the ocean entrance to Lake Illawarra.
Windang is a suburb of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, on the southern tip of the peninsula guarding the ocean entrance to Lake Illawarra. Windang is popular for its fishing, prawning, boating, surfing, windsurfing and yachting. Windang is 98 km south of Sydney, approximately 20 minutes drive south of the Wollongong central business district and seven minutes from Shellharbour.
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Worth seeing in and around Windang
2 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.
- 01Lake Illawarra
Lake Illawarra is an open and trained intermediate wave dominated barrier estuary or large coastal lagoon. It is located in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, situated about 100 kilometres south of Sydney, Australia.
3.1 km · lake in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia - 02Westfield Warrawong
Warrawong Plaza, formerly Westfield Warrawong, is a major shopping centre located in Warrawong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. With a retail floor area of 57,582 m2, it is currently the third largest shopping centre in the Illawarra region.
4 km · shopping mall in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
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Getting to Windang
- Airports
- Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 70 km · Newcastle (NTL), 211 km
- Sydney (Mascot) → Windang74 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · A$11–14
- Williamtown → Windang211 km · quickest by road, 4h 32m · A$31–42
- Melbourne → Windang643 km · quickest by air, 7h 58m · A$360–520
- 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 Windang
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 Windang. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundA good cycle route could take 60 km mostly off-road from Bulli to Kiama, hugging the coast and headlands the whole way, and passing close to all Wollongong has to offer.
- Go nextIf you are staying in Wollongong, Sydney is a fairly comfortable day trip.
From Wikivoyage: Wollongong, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Windang
- Lake Heightssuburb of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia3.7 km
- Warrawonglocality in New South Wales, Australia3.7 km