District and community of Cardiff, Wales

Gabalfa

Gabalfa is a district and community in the north of the city of Cardiff, capital of Wales.

Every way there

London → Gabalfa
212 km · quickest by road, 3h 52m · £22–29
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Birmingham, West Midlands → Gabalfa
141 km · quickest by road, 2h 46m · £15–21
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Nottingham, Leicestershire → Gabalfa
213 km · quickest by road, 3h 52m · £23–31
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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 Gabalfa, 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 Gabalfa has

YScheduled flightsCardiff (CWL), 15 km
NTrains and coachesno timetable feed known for this country
YFerriesCity Centre Water Bus Stop, 2 km, Cardiff Aquabus; 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: Barry, 12 km.

51.500°, -3.204°

It is characterised by a four-lane flyover road at the Gabalfa Interchange, where the A48 road meets the A470 road which leads from Cardiff to northern Wales, and the A469 road.

How locals move

Getting around Gabalfa 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: Jeremy Segrott from Cardiff, Wales, UK (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.