Suez
Suez is a seaport city in north-eastern Egypt, located on the north coast of the Gulf of Suez on the Red Sea, near the southern terminus of the Suez Canal.
Suez is a seaport city in north-eastern Egypt, located on the north coast of the Gulf of Suez on the Red Sea, near the southern terminus of the Suez Canal. The city is the capital and largest city of the Suez Governorate. The modern city of Suez is a successor of the ancient Egyptian city of Clysma, a major Red Sea port and a center of monasticism.
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Worth seeing in and around Suez
4 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.
- 01Suez Stadium
The Suez Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium located in Suez, Egypt. It is used mostly for football and serves as the home stadium of Montakhab Elsuees the main soccer team of the city and also Asmant El-Suweis and Petrojet SC. The stadium has a capacity of 27,000 people.
1.2 km · stadium · Wikipedia - 02Mubarak International Stadium
Egyptian Army Stadium – Suez is an all-seated association football stadium in Suez, Egypt. The stadium was built in 2009 as one of the venues for the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup, which was hosted by Egypt.
1.8 km · building in Egypt · Wikipedia - 03Suez University
Suez University is an Egyptian public university established by the presidential decree no 193 in 2012 to transfer Suez Canal University branch in Suez to an independent university. Suez University is the first university established by a presidential decree after the January 25 revolution in Egypt.
6.1 km · university in Egypt · Wikipedia - 04Port Tewfik Memorial
The Port Tewfik Memorial was originally situated at Port Tewfik, now called Suez Port, on the Suez Canal. It was unveiled in May 1926 for the Imperial War Graves Commission and commemorated 4,000 officers and men of the Indian Army killed during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign during the First World War.
3.8 km · destroyed war memorial · Wikipedia
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Getting to Suez
- Airports
- Cairo (CAI), 112 km · Port Said (PSD), 149 km · Sphinx (SPX), 160 km
- Stations
- Suez Port, 1.9 km
- Cairo → Suez123 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · E£190–250
- Port Said → Suez145 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · E£230–305
- Al Jiza → Suez461 km · quickest by road, 11h 26m · $50–70
- 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 Suez
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 Suez. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThere is a ferry, the M/F Alnawa Express, run by Namma Shipping Lines, that runs between Suez and Jeddah that takes around 60 hours.
From Wikivoyage: Port Suez, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03.
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Next door to Suez
- Clysmaancient city in Egypt2.7 km