Village in Groningen, Netherlands

Glimmen

Glimmen is a village in the northeastern Netherlands.

Every way there

Amsterdam → Glimmen
145 km · quickest by road, 3h 11m · €19–27
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Rotterdam → Glimmen
199 km · quickest by road, 3h 50m · €24–34
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Eindhoven → Glimmen
204 km · quickest by road, 3h 52m · €24–34
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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 Glimmen, 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 Glimmen has

YScheduled flightsGroningen (GRQ), 4 km
FTrains and coachesTransitous carries 1 timetable feed for this country, 3 with real-time; a stop for a place this small is unverified
YFerriesReitdiepveer, 22 km; 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: Groningen, 10 km.

53.138°, 6.629°

It is located in the municipality of Groningen, about 10 kilometres from the city. It had a population of around 1,342 in 2021. The river Drentsche Aa flows past the village, nearby the Huis te Glimmen, a stately home on the site.

How locals move

Getting around Glimmen the local way

Get inThe airport offers (multiple) daily flights to and from Copenhagen, London-Southend, and Munich, and various other scheduled and charter flights to and from cities and holiday destinations in Southern Europe.

From Wikivoyage: Tynaarlo, 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.