On the way

What to see on the way from Gdańsk to Hel

It is about 109 km from Gdańsk to Hel, roughly 1 h 53 min of driving without breaks.

Along the way we suggest 6 stops worth leaving the road for: heritage, nature and curiosities. A typical detour is 2 minutes: the extra time to drive to a stop and back to the route.

Stops are listed in driving order, each with the time it adds and its distance from the start.

  • 109 km
  • 1 h 53 min
  • 6 stops
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Stops on the way

  1. Stop 1

    +7 min detour 32 km from the start Show on map

    Church of St Lawrence in Gdynia

    Photo: Church of St Lawrence in Gdynia
    Joymaster Public domain

    A Roman Catholic church in the neo-Gothic style, located in the Wielki Kack district of the city of Gdynia.

    • History and culture

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  2. Stop 2

    +3 min detour 41 km from the start Show on map

    Gdynia Motor Museum

    Photo: Gdynia Motor Museum
    Andrzej Otrębski CC BY-SA 4.0

    A private museum of cars and motorcycles in Gdynia, Pomeranian Voivodeship, founded in 2007.

    • History and culture

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  3. Stop 3

    +2 min detour 50 km from the start Show on map

    Church of St Anthony of Padua in Reda

    Photo: Church of St Anthony of Padua in Reda
    Ulrich Jahr Public domain

    A Roman Catholic church in the town of Reda, Wejherowo County, Pomeranian Voivodeship.

    • History and culture

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  4. Stop 4

    +2 min detour 67 km from the start Show on map

    Kaczy Winkel

    No photo is available yet.

    A viewpoint in the town of Puck (Puck County, Pomeranian Voivodeship).

    • Nature and unusual places

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  5. Stop 5

    +1 min detour 91 km from the start Show on map

    Museum. Heavy Combat Bunker SABAŁA in Jastarnia

    Photo: Museum. Heavy Combat Bunker SABAŁA in Jastarnia
    Pe pawel Public domain

    A museum in a heavy combat bunker, located in the town of Jastarnia (Puck County, Pomeranian Voivodeship).

    • History and culture

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  6. Stop 6

    +1 min detour 100 km from the start Show on map

    Ruins of the former 64th Air Defence Missile Squadron, Jurata

    No photo is available yet.

    Ruins of the former 64th Air Defence Missile Squadron, part of the 4th Gdynia Air Defence Missile Brigade, about 2 km from Jurata in Puck County.

    • History and culture

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Driving the other way?

Driving from Hel to Gdańsk, you reach the same stops in reverse order – read the list from the bottom.

Plan the route from Hel to Gdańsk

How stops are chosen: the planner routes the drive, checks places up to 5 km from the road and routes the real detour to each; it keeps those that add at most 30 minutes. Data: OpenStreetMap (ODbL), Wikidata, Wikipedia, the NID heritage register (CC BY 4.0), Opencaching.PL (CC BY-SA 3.0 PL), photos from Wikimedia Commons with their author and licence.