Kloten

Kloten is a municipality in the district of Bulach in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland, and belongs to the Glatt Valley. It is first mentioned in 1155 as Chlotun. The municipality lies some ten kilometres north of the city of Zurich and is the nearest village to Zurich Airport, whose passenger terminal and much of the airfield are within the municipal boundaries. The airport railway station, Zurich Flughafen, is in the basement of the terminal and is served by long-distance trains and by the Zurich S-Bahn lines S2, S16 and S24, and Swiss International Air Lines keeps an office on the airport property and in Kloten. The area is 19.3 square kilometres, with about a third used for agriculture and about a quarter forested. Kloten has an oceanic climate with sizeable continental influences and a population of 20,429 in December 2020.