Here and in the neighboring region, Spreitenbach, is also the large Limmattal rail freight marshalling yard.

Of the rest of the land, 49.1% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (6.7%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).

The Honeret forest lies on a side moraine of the Linth glacier ("Linthgletscher").

There are over 200 prominent stones through the woods, up to erratic boulders as big as 25 m2 (270 sq ft).

The Limmattal light rail line follows a similar alignment, albeit extended through Dietikon to Killwangen.

Wide brooks are the approximately 3 km (1.9 mi) long Schäflibach and the Teischlibach.

[7] Dietikon features several Roman ruins and also the Fahr Benedictine Convent, given[clarification needed] by the House of Regensberg around 1130 AD, with a cloister church dating from the years 1743 to 1746.

The Second Battle of Zürich was fought in Dietikon (September 1799) and the town name is among those inscribed at the pillar of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France.

[4] The historical population is given in the following table:[7] Among other companies, the Limmattaler Zeitung newspaper and Ex Libris are situated in Dietikon.

The wettest month is August during which time Dietikon receives an average of 114 mm (4.5 in) of precipitation.

[9] There's the Bruno Weber Park in Dietikon respectively Spreitenbach, one of the few sculpture gardens and Gesamtkunstwerks in Switzerland.

[10] Glanzenberg was once a settlement along the river Limmat, but its fortifications seem to never have been completed, and it might have been destroyed in 1267/68, a legend tells.

Also situated there are the walls of the former Glanzenberg castle, built in the late 12th century AD by the Counts of Regensberg.