Return flights to Katowice are currently starting from just £44. WizzAir flies four times a week to Katowice from Doncaster and twice a week from Liverpool and daily from Luton.
Katowice is the important industrial capital in Upper Silesia, south Poland. Here you'll find plenty of cheap accommodation and nightlife. Katowice is about 40 miles west of Cracow, 120 miles east of Wroclaw, 50 miles south of Czestochowa. This city lies at the centre of a huge industrial area and is surrounded by other large Polish cities like Sosnowiec, Dabrowa Gornicza, Myslowice, Chorzow and Gliwice.
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Public Transport and Transfers from Katowice Airport (KTW), Poland
Also known as Katovice or Kattowitz, the International Airport is 21 miles north of the city near Pyrzowice, distance from Katowice airport to Cracow (Krakow) is about 65 miles.
Taxi
Taxis are available from the taxi rank in front of the passenger terminal. Fare to city cost about 20 Euros.
Bus
The airport has a daily bus service to the city centre, journey takes about 40 minutes. Local public buses also run to Bytom, Mierzecice, Zawiercie. The main bus station is situated near the railway station in town. Bus stops have information boards displaying local bus routes. Another way to travel around Katowice is by tram.
Train
No train runs to Katowice airport. The main railway station is located in centre of town, near the bus station. Frequent trains run from here to Warsaw, Krakow, Wroclaw, Oswiecim (for Auschwitz), and to all parts of Poland and beyond.
Quick look at Katowice
Accommmodation - Plenty of reasonably priced accommodation ranging from renovated 5 star hotels to cheap hostels.
Katowice city - Stark 1960's and 1970's high rise buildings, Art Nouveau, drab communist style blocks, industrial plants. Also a few nice museums, attractive churches, lots of theatres & music festivals, excellent parks.
Ulica Stawowa - Pedestrianised shopping street with many bars, traditional style beer cellars and eateries.
Cathedral of Christ the Lord - Impressive 20th C. Baroque church made of Silesian dolomite.
Church of St. Michael - Unique wooden church.
Spodek - Distinctive flying saucer-like sports & show complex of 1970's modernistic architecture.
Silesian Insurgents Monument - Huge 1960's symbolic sculpture, commemmorating 3 Silesian uprisings.
Katowice History Museum - Exhibitions about the history of the city and the region.
Muzeum Slaskie - Works by Polish artists, touring exhibitions.
Coal Mining Industry Museum - The story of this local industry from the 19th C. omwards.
Wojewodzki Park Kultury i Wypoczynku - Enormous park in Chorzow, with zoo, funfair, planetarium.
Stadion Slaski - The national football stadium is just outside the city in Chorzow.
Jewish Cemetery - Ancient necropolis founded in 1868.
National Museum Oswiecim - The Nazi extermination camps (Auschwitz 1 & Auschwitz-Birkenau) are 17 miles south of Katowice.