Anthering is a municipality in the district of Salzburg-Umgebung, in the state of Salzburg, Austria. It lies in the federal state of Salzburg in the centre-north of the country, within the Flachgau region that surrounds the city of Salzburg.
As a municipality, Anthering is one of the local administrative units of the Salzburg-Umgebung district, the district that encircles but does not include the statutory city of Salzburg itself. The municipality is made up of the main village together with surrounding settlements and open countryside.
Its position in the Salzburg-Umgebung district places it among the communities of the immediate hinterland of the state capital, an area of small towns and villages set among farmland and the foothills of the Alps.