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# Syracuse

Syracuse is a city in New York, United States, and the county seat of Onondaga County.

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

## Every way there

- Rochester → Syracuse 120 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · $11–15 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/rochester-to-syracuse) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Rochester&to=Syracuse)
- Albany → Syracuse 200 km · quickest by road, 3h 3m · $19–26 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/albany-to-syracuse) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Albany&to=Syracuse)
- Buffalo → Syracuse 223 km · quickest by road, 3h 11m · $19–27 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/buffalo-to-syracuse) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Buffalo&to=Syracuse)

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 Syracuse, 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 Syracuse](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/syracuse)

What Syracuse has

- Y Scheduled flights Syracuse (SYR), 8 km
- Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 5 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
- N Ferries no crossing within 25 km
- 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.

43.047°, -76.144°

With 148,620 residents, and a metropolitan area of 662,057 people, it is the most populous city in Central New York, as well as the fifth-most populated city and 13th-most populated municipality in New York.

How locals move

## Getting around Syracuse the local way

- Get in There are two or three direct trains daily from Rome (11 hours) via Naples (9 hours) and the Straits ferry.
- Get in Six regional trains run M-Sa via Noto, Pozzallo (one hour; for the ferry to Malta), Modica and Ragusa (two hours) to Gela.

From [Wikivoyage: Syracuse (Italy)](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Syracuse_(Italy%29), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syracuse%2C_New_York), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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