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Town in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Wyk auf Föhr

Wyk auf Föhr is the only town on Föhr, the second largest of the North Frisian Islands on the German coast of the North Sea.

Wyk auf Föhr
Wyk auf Föhr · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Wyk auf Föhr is the only town on Föhr, the second largest of the North Frisian Islands on the German coast of the North Sea. Like the entire island it belongs to the district of Nordfriesland. Wyk includes the two minor town districts of Boldixum and Südstrand.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Wyk auf Föhr

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.

  1. 01
    Museum Kunst der Westküste

    The Museum Kunst der Westküste is a non-profit foundation, located in Alkersum on the north Frisian island, Föhr. The museum collects, researches, communicates and exhibits art that deals with the themes of sea and coast.

    3.8 km · art museum in Alkersum on the northfrisian island Før · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Olhörn lighthouse

    Olhörn Lighthouse is a small lighthouse on the German North Sea island of Föhr in Schleswig-Holstein. The lighthouse is located on the southeastern corner of the island of Föhr, inside the town of Wyk auf Föhr in the Nordfriesland district.

    2.1 km · lighthouse in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany · 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.

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Getting to Wyk auf Föhr

Airports
Billund (BLL), 122 km · Odense Hans Christian Andersen (ODE), 141 km · Hamburg Helmut Schmidt (HAM), 151 km
  • Hamburg → Wyk auf Föhr
    157 km · quickest by road, 4h 11m · €21–30
  • Bremen → Wyk auf Föhr
    180 km · quickest by road, 5h 33m · €32–45
  • Hannover → Wyk auf Föhr
    269 km · quickest by road, 6h 8m · €37–50
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Wyk auf Föhr

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe island can be reached by a car and passenger ferry service or via an airstrip.
  • Get inWDR ferry company runs Ferry services from Dagebüll on the mainland to .

From Wikivoyage: Föhr, 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

    283 km
  2. 02
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    301 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    800 km
  4. 04
    Kirkwall and the Orkney IslandsGB

    9 ways of moving, 33 sources

    846 km
  5. 05
    Yell, Unst and the North IslesGB

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    870 km

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

Around it

Next door to Wyk auf Föhr

  • Alkersummunicipality in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany3.6 km
  • Oevenummunicipality in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany2.6 km
  • Nieblummunicipality in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany5.1 km
  • Wrixummunicipality in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany1.1 km
  • Midlummunicipality in Kreis Nordfriesland, Germany3.5 km