Hansestadt Salzwedel: facts

At a glance

• Country: Germany
• Region: Saxony-Anhalt
• Administrative status: seat of a third-order administrative division (GeoNames code PPLA3)
• Population: approximately 21,058
• Coordinates: 52.8530° N, 11.1529° E
• Time zone: Europe/Berlin (UTC+01:00 standard, UTC+02:00 daylight saving time)
• Currency: Euro (EUR)
• Distance to the capital, Berlin: 156 km (97 mi), straight line

Getting there

• Hannover Airport (HAJ): 108 km (67 mi), straight line
• Lübeck Blankensee Airport (LBC): 110 km (68 mi), straight line
• Hamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport (HAM): 116 km (72 mi), straight line

Nearby

• Lubbow: 6.8 km (4.2 mi)
• Kuhfelde: 7.9 km (4.9 mi)
• Luckau: 11 km (7 mi)
• Wallstawe: 11 km (7 mi)
• Woltersdorf: 12 km (8 mi)
• Nearest place with over 100,000 inhabitants: Wolfsburg, 54 km (33 mi)