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Kenitra

Kenitra is a city in northwestern Morocco.

Kenitra
Kenitra · Wikimedia Commons (see file page)
The place

Kenitra is a city in northwestern Morocco. It is a major urban center on the mouth of the Sebou River with a population of 507,736 as of 2024, with Mehdya counting an additional 58,558.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kenitra

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.

  1. 01
    Stade Municipal

    Kenitra Municipal Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Kenitra, Morocco. Inaugurated in 1941, the stadium is currently used primarily for football matches and is the home stadium of Kénitra AC. It has a capacity of up to 28,000 people.

    1.1 km · stadium in Kenitra, Morocco · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Kasbah of Mehdia

    Kasbah Mahdiyya, or Kasbah of Kenitra, is a kasbah located in Kenitra, Morocco. It is situated at the mouth of the Sebou River on the Atlantic Ocean, 8 km west of the city's train station.

    7 km · Moroccan cultural heritage site · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    La Mamora

    Mehdya, also Mehdia or Mehedya, is a town in Kénitra Province, Rabat-Salé-Kénitra, in north-western Morocco. Previously called al-Ma'mura, it was known as São João da Mamora under 16th century Portuguese occupation, or as La Mamora under 17th century Spanish occupation.

    8.4 km · building in Africa · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Kenitra

Airports
Rabat-Salé (RBA), 27 km · Mohammed V (CMN), 135 km · Fes Saïss (FEZ), 152 km
Stations
Kenitra military Air Base, 5.6 km
  • Casablanca → Kenitra
    121 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · MAD60–75
  • Saïss → Kenitra
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Tangier → Kenitra
    182 km · quickest by road, 3h 1m · MAD80–110
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kenitra

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 Kenitra. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    ChefchaouenMA

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    158 km
  2. 02
    Merzouga and Erg ChebbiMA

    8 ways of moving, 41 sources

    425 km
  3. 03
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    1,777 km
  4. 04
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    1,783 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    1,877 km

If you know how people move in Kenitra – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Kenitra

Kenitra is 30 km from Salé, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.