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![Palanga](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/Palanga_by_Augustas_Didzgalvis.jpg)

# Palanga

Palanga is a resort city in western Lithuania, on the shore of the Baltic Sea.

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## Every way there

- Kaunas → Palanga 212 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · €24–33 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/kaunas-to-palanga) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Kaunas&to=Palanga)
- Vilnius → Palanga 299 km · quickest by road, 3h 43m · €33–46 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/vilnius-to-palanga) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Vilnius&to=Palanga)
- Kaliningrad → Palanga 139 km · quickest by road, 6h 6m · ₽1,450–1,940 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/kaliningrad-to-palanga) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Kaliningrad&to=Palanga)

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 Palanga, 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 Palanga has

- Y Scheduled flights Palanga (PLQ), 7 km
- Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 14 timetable feeds for this country, 10 with real-time
- Y Ferries Lietuvos jūrų muziejus, 23 km; 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.

55.917°, 21.067°

The city's population as of January 2025 was 18,551.

Get in

## Getting to Palanga

1. Palanga International Airport This has limited seasonal destinations, which include London Stansted and Dublin by Ryanair, Oslo by Norwegian, Riga by Air Baltic, and Copenhagen by Scandinavian.

See

## Worth seeing

1. Palanga Pier is L-shaped
2. Resort Museum
3. Amber Museum

Do

## Things to do

The beach is sandy and stretches either side of the pier for many km - south to the lagoon outlet at Klaipėda, north to the small resort of Šventoji. The central strip is congested at the height of summer; the further away you go, the quieter it gets. Walking up and down J. Basanavičiaus Street, the main pedestrian street leading to the beach and pier.

Eat

## Where to eat

Basanavičius g is lined with cheap and cheerful places.

How locals move

## Getting around Palanga the local way

- Go next Curonian Spit, a short ferry ride from Klaipėda, is a remarkable 99 km line of sand dunes enclosing a lagoon.

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

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


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