Warsaw’s airports are 11–36 km from Plac Zamkowy
A ticket names the city, not the airport. Which of the 2 it means is the difference between Chopin, 11 km out, and Modlin at 36 km — 3.3× the distance, on the ground, in your own time.
Two tickets to Warsaw, two different afternoons
- By car, clear roads
- 26 min
- On public transport
- 42 min
- By car, clear roads
- 38 min
- On public transport
- 1h 31m
25 km of difference — outside the fare, on your time and at your expense, and again on the way home. Cheap tickets are more often the second one. Check which three-letter code is printed next to Warsaw on yours.
Every airport, measured
from Plac Zamkowy- ChopinWAWclosest11km from Plac Zamkowy
26 min by car, clear roads · 42 min on public transport · bus 175 · PLN 4.40
- ModlinWMIfurthest36km from Plac Zamkowy
38 min by car, clear roads · 1h 31m on public transport · bus 518 → train R90 → bus ZL · 2 changes
What the measurements show
Getting to Modlin by public transport costs 53 min over the drive
Both figures are measured, and the slower one is the only published answer. What the difference costs to buy back is not on this page: we do not estimate a taxi fare we were not quoted.
- ModlinWMI1h 31m vs 38 min · bus 518 → train R90 → bus ZL
Modlin takes 2 changes to reach
A duration does not describe a connection. Two changes with a suitcase and a departure time is a different journey from one direct run of the same length:
- ModlinWMI2 changes · bus 518 → train R90 → bus ZL
Google publishes a fare for 1 airport here
A price Google itself returned, per person, each way. The others carry none, and we do not estimate one.
- ChopinWAWPLN 4.40 · 42 min
Price the whole journey, not the flight into Warsaw
This page measures distances that do not change. Prices and departure times change hourly, so they are not here — Pathioo fetches those live, adds the journey to and from the airport at both ends, and gives you one total from address to address.
Where these numbers come from
Every kilometre is a Google Directions API response, measured on 2026-09-16 from Plac Zamkowy to the terminal — to the airport's own address, not to a point on a map. Those are two different things and they can differ by a factor of two.
We measure the shortest route at four in the morning, because a road chosen around traffic describes the traffic and not the distance: asked of Gatwick and central London it returned 83 km at rush hour and 45 km overnight. That is why driving times are given as "clear roads" — a floor, not a promise.
Transit is the fastest published run with no departure time attached, and where two runs finish within five minutes of each other the one with fewer changes is the one shown. Every leg is measured into the airport, never back: a timetable is not symmetric, and the direction with a deadline is the one worth printing.
You will not find a ticket price, a departure time or an airline here. Those live shorter than this page does, and appear only in the search itself, straight from the airline's API.