The attractive location of Dąbrowa Górnicza provides access to the existing markets of Poland, and of North Moravia in the Czech Republic. A forwarding station links Poland with Ukraine, Russia and Asia. The historic Warsaw-Vienna railway (the first railway line in the “Congress” Kingdom of Poland), and the Iwanogrdzka-Dąbrowska Railway run through Dąbrowa Górnicza.

Katowice International Airport is about 11km from the city boundary, at Pyrzowice, which can easily and quickly be reached by an expressway. The inter-city road (Drogowa Trasa Średnicowa), as well as the rapid-transit urban railway, will run through Dąbrowa Górnicza.

Location of the city

- Poland is situated in Central Europe, and, since May 2004, has been a member state of the European Union.

- The country is located at the intersection of transport routes linking North with South and East with West. An area of 312,000km² is inhabited by over 38 million people,

- the Upper Silesian Province is situated in the South of Poland, bordering Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Nationally, the Province borders the Opole, Łódź, Świętokrzyska and Małopolska Provinces. It covers an area of 12,334km2, which amounts to 3∙9% of the total area of the country, 

- The Upper Silesian Metropolitan Association is an association of cities adjoining one another, for a distance of roughly 70km, from Dąbrowa Górnicza to Gliwice, with a total area of 1468km2 (almost a fifth of the area of the Upper Silesian Province),

- Dąbrowa Górnicza is the largest city in the Upper Silesian Province in terms of area, covering 189km2, and is situated between two provincial capitals (which are economic, educational and cultural centres), Katowice and Cracow.

There are no less than six European capitals within a 600km radius of
Dąbrowa Górnicza:

Warsaw         270 km
Berlin             540 km
Bratislava         380 km
Budapest        450 km
Prague            400 km
Vienna            450 km

Distances from the border crossings:

Slovakia         Zwardoń (170km), Chyżne (170km)
Czech Republic        Cieszyn (100km)
Germany        Zgorzelec (350km)
Ukraine            Medyka (320km)

Infrastructure

 Two out of the 10 trans-European routes intersect in the Dąbrowa Górnicza area: the Berlin – Wrocław – Katowice – Lviv and Gdańsk – Katowice - Žylina corridors
 A high density of road infrastructure
 The best developed local public transport in Poland

Railway connections (map)
 
Upper Silesian Conurbation – here the A1 and A4 motorways intersect,
 50% of domestic rail transport is within the Upper Silesian Province,
 the railway junction in Tarnowskie Góry is one of the largest in Europe,
 the rail journey from Sosnowiec to Warsaw – 2 hours 20 minutes (270 km)
Dąbrowa Górnicza (map of Poland, with roads, connections and terminal marked) situated at the intersection of two national roads DK 94 (Cracow–Wrocław) and DK 1 (Cieszyn– Gdańsk)
 excellent connections with international routes:
*west-east (the route connecting Nuremberg - Dresden - Wrocław - Katowice - Lviv - Kiev)
*north-south (Scandinavia - Gdańsk - Warsaw - Cracow - Ostrava).
 water transport is ensured thanks to the Gliwice Canal, 50km from Dąbrowa Górnicza, linking the river port of Gliwice with Szczecin.
- close to Dąbrowa Górnicza, there is the EUROTERMINAL, the International Shipping Centre, in Sławków, with a wide-gauge line enabling freight-forwarding to Ukraine, Russia and Asia. There is a direct connection with the Intercontinental Trans-Siberian Railway (the former Silk Road), from China, through Kazakhstan, and thus transport to the Far East.

Air connections
 
Two international airports are within a 70km radius: Katowice’s Pyrzowice airport, 17km from Dąbrowa, and Cracow’s Balice airport, 70km away.
 Katowice International Airport is the third largest airport in Poland, in terms of passenger numbers.
 The airport at Ostrava, in the Czech Republic, is 130km away

Pyrzowice’s total passenger traffic:

January 2010 – 130 331,
April 2010 – 140 981,
July 2010 – 314 492