Town in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales

Dinas Powys

Dinas Powys is a town and community in the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales.

Every way there

London → Dinas Powys
214 km · quickest by road, 4h 4m · £22–30
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Birmingham, West Midlands → Dinas Powys
147 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · £16–21
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Nottingham, Leicestershire → Dinas Powys
220 km · quickest by road, 4h 4m · £24–32
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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 Dinas Powys, 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 Dinas Powys has

YScheduled flightsCardiff (CWL), 10 km
YTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
YFerriesWater Bus Stop Barrage South, 3 km, Cardiff Cruises; 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.

51.433°, -3.213°

It lies 5.6 miles (9.0 km) south-west of the centre of Cardiff, making it a popular dormitory village for city commuters; it neighbours the larger town of Penarth.

How locals move

Getting around Dinas Powys the local way

Go nextIt is possible to visit Hereford as a day trip, using either train or car.

From Wikivoyage: Cardiff, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Nadezna1971 (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.