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![Schettens](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/Kerk_Schettens.jpg)

# Schettens

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

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

## Every way there

- Groningen → Schettens 74 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · €9–13 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/groningen-to-schettens) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Groningen&to=Schettens)
- Amsterdam → Schettens 88 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · €11–15 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/amsterdam-to-schettens) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Amsterdam&to=Schettens)
- Rotterdam → Schettens 146 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · €18–25 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/rotterdam-to-schettens) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Rotterdam&to=Schettens)

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 Schettens, 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 Schettens](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/schettens)

What Schettens has

- Y Scheduled flights Groningen (GRQ), 73 km
- N Trains and coaches no timetable feed known for this country
- Y Ferries Harlingen, 11 km, Stichting Harlinger Heen en Weer; 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, 26 km.

53.083°, 5.483°

It had a population of around 285 in January 2017.

How locals move

## Getting around Schettens 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/Schettens), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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