Lviv: how to get there and around
Airports, stations, ports, where the hotels are and what the numbers say, from public data rather than a brochure.
Lviv is a city of 717,273 people in Ukraine, 284 m (932 ft) above sea level. It has 6 railway stations on record, including Lviv railway station. Our booking partner lists 1,544+ places to stay.
Key facts
Daylight in Lviv runs from about 8 h 10 min a day in late December to 16 h 25 min in late June (computed for 49.84° latitude), which matters more than the forecast when a day is built around one flight or one crossing.
Getting there
No airport with scheduled passenger service sits within 100 km of Lviv in the OurAirports register, so flying in means a longer transfer from the nearest served city.
By rail: stations on record include Lviv railway station, Lviv Suburban railway station, Klepariv, Briukhovychi, Batarivka, Holosko. Trains to Lviv
Buses to Lviv · Driving and car hire
Where to stay
Our booking partner lists 1,544+ places to stay in Lviv (statistics below are from the first 1,000). Of the 753 with a star rating, the largest group is 3-star (418), and 9 are five-star. Across 365 properties with at least 50 reviews, the average guest score is 9.1 out of 10. Guests have left 347,164 reviews in total.
Hotels in Lviv: the full picture, and book
Our booking partner lists 53 hostels in Lviv, out of 1,544 places to stay of every kind — 3.4% of everywhere it lists in the city, around the middle of the range for the cities we hold figures for. Across 38 hostels with at least 50 reviews, the average guest score is 8.4 out of 10, 0.7 below the 9.1 its hotels average. Guests have left 34,719 reviews across them.
Hostels in Lviv: the full picture, and book
What people come for
| Sight | Visitors a year | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Shevchenkivskyi Hai | 150,000 | — |
The busiest is Shevchenkivskyi Hai at 150,000 visitors. Figures are the latest each site has published, so they are not all for the same year.
UNESCO World Heritage in the city: Old Town of Lviv.
Tours, tickets and day trips from Lviv
Nearby cities, and how to get between them
- Warsaw, 339 km (Poland)
- Kraków, 293 km (Poland) — tours
- Łódź, 385 km (Poland)
- Vinnytsya, 328 km
- Iaşi, 397 km (Romania)
- Brest, 253 km (Belarus) — trains · tours
- Lublin, 188 km (Poland) — trains · buses · car rental · tours
- Białystok, 371 km (Poland)
- Katowice, 360 km (Poland)
- Cluj-Napoca, 343 km (Romania)
Twin towns and sister cities: Vilnius, Łódź, Samarkand, Wrocław, Banja Luka, Corning, Freiburg im Breisgau, Kutaisi, Novi Sad, Whitstable, Winnipeg, Warsaw, Kraków, Lublin.
Common questions
How big is Lviv?
About 717,273 people live in Lviv, across 182 km² (GeoNames and Wikidata).
What time zone is Lviv in?
Europe/Kyiv, currently UTC+3.
What currency is used in Lviv?
The Hryvnia (UAH). Traffic drives on the right.
Are there hostels in Lviv?
53 of them, bookable on this site. Hostels in Lviv.
How many hotels are there in Lviv?
Our booking partner lists 1,544 or more places to stay in Lviv, bookable on this site.
Which cities are near Lviv?
Warsaw (339 km), Kraków (293 km), Łódź (385 km), Vinnytsya (328 km), Iaşi (397 km).
Where these facts come from
- GeoNames (CC BY 4.0): population, elevation, time zone, postal codes
- Wikidata (CC0): area, sister cities, visitor numbers, heritage listings, stations and ports
- OurAirports (public domain): airports, runways
- Natural Earth (public domain): map outlines
Data compiled 14 September 2026. Hotel and hostel figures are from our booking partner’s catalogue on that date. Journey times on this page are estimates from distance, not timetables; check the operator before you rely on one.