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# Gaast

Gaast is a village in Súdwest-Fryslân municipality in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands.

[Plan a trip to Gaast](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Gaast) [From Groningen](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Groningen&to=Gaast)

## Every way there

- Groningen → Gaast 80 km · quickest by road, 1h 31m · €10–14 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/groningen-to-gaast) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Groningen&to=Gaast)
- Amsterdam → Gaast 80 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · €11–16 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/amsterdam-to-gaast) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Amsterdam&to=Gaast)
- Rotterdam → Gaast 137 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · €18–25 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/rotterdam-to-gaast) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Rotterdam&to=Gaast)

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

[Read the note on Gaast](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gaast)

What Gaast has

- Y Scheduled flights Groningen (GRQ), 79 km
- N Trains and coaches no timetable feed known for this country
- Y Ferries Stavoren, terminal V&O, 15 km, Rederij V&O b.v.; sailings estimated
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Leeuwarden, 34 km.

53.016°, 5.408°

It had a population of around 220 in January 2017.

How locals move

## Getting around Gaast the local way

- Go next The old harbour town of Harlingen is 30 minutes away, and is also the ferry terminal for services to the Wadden islands of Vlieland and Terschelling.

From [Wikivoyage: Bolsward](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Bolsward), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaast), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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