Beira
Beira is the capital and largest city of Sofala Province, in the central region of Mozambique.
Beira is the capital and largest city of Sofala Province, in the central region of Mozambique.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Beira
3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Catholic University of Mozambique
The Catholic University of Mozambique is a university in Mozambique. UCM was founded on August 10, 1996, by the Mozambican conference of Bishops to make higher education available to central and northern Mozambique.
2.2 km · university · Wikipedia - 02Our Lady of the Rosary Cathedral, Beira
The Our Lady of the Rosary Cathedral also called Metropolitan Cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary, is located in Beira, a town in the African country of Mozambique and is the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Beira. The first stone church was laid on 25 October 1900 at the site where the first cemetery of Beira.
1.1 km · building in Mozambique · Wikipedia - 03Estádio do Ferroviário
The Estádio do Ferroviário da Beira is a multi-purpose stadium in Beira, Mozambique. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Clube Ferroviário da Beira.
1.6 km · building in Mozambique · Wikipedia
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Getting to Beira
- Airports
- Beira (BEW), 7 km
- Stations
- Beira Airport, 7.3 km · Beira railway station, 1.5 km · Port of Beira, 2.3 km
- Tete → Beira431 km · quickest by air, 4h 14m · $150–220
- Nampula → Beira705 km · quickest by air, 4h 19m · $160–240
- Maputo → Beira719 km · quickest by air, 4h 21m · $160–250
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Beira
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Beira. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inMinibuses to Chimoio take 3 hours and cost MT200.
- Get aroundMinibuses, so called chapas, are easily available for local transport and for connections to neighboring cities like Chimoio.
From Wikivoyage: Beira, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.
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