Town in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales

Porth

Porth is a town and community in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, within the historic county boundaries of Glamorgan, Wales.

Plan a trip to Porth→From Bristol

Every way there

Bristol → Porth
59 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · £8–10
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Birmingham, West Midlands → Porth
141 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · £17–23
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London → Porth
227 km · quickest by road, 4h 13m · £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 Porth, 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 Porth has

YScheduled flightsCardiff (CWL), 25 km
YTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
YFerriesCity Centre Water Bus Stop, 21 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.

51.614°, -3.409°

Lying in the Rhondda Valley, it is regarded as the gateway connecting the Rhondda Fawr and Rhondda Fach valleys due to both valleys meeting at Porth. The Welsh word "porth" means "gate". Porth is a predominantly English-speaking community.

How locals move

Getting around Porth the local way

Get inThere is an international airport at Cardiff and a small airport serving private planes at Swansea There are regular car ferry services from Ireland to Fishguard and Pembroke.

From Wikivoyage: South Wales, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-08.

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