Village in Friesland, Netherlands

Achlum

Achlum is a village in the Waadhoeke municipality of Friesland, Netherlands.

Every way there

Groningen → Achlum
73 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · €9–12
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Amsterdam → Achlum
95 km · quickest by road, 2h 16m · €12–16
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Rotterdam → Achlum
152 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · €18–26
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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.

The field note

What is in and around Achlum, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Achlum has

YScheduled flightsGroningen (GRQ), 73 km
FTrains and coachesTransitous carries 1 timetable feed for this country, 3 with real-time; a stop for a place this small is unverified
YFerriesHarlingen, 6 km, Rederij Doeksen; sailings estimated
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Leeuwarden, 22 km.

53.149°, 5.485°

It is approximately 7 km southwest of the city of Franeker.

How locals move

Getting around Achlum the local way

Get inApart from coming in with your own boat, there are daily ferry services to the islands of Terschelling and Vlieland, operated by Rederij Doeksen.
Go nextYou're right on the beach, so why not hop on a ferry and visit the island of Vlieland or Terschelling.

From Wikivoyage: Harlingen (Netherlands), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.