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Bay at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula, shared by Spain and Gibraltar

Bay of Gibraltar

The Bay of Gibraltar, also known as Bay of Algeciras, is a bay at the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula.

Bay of Gibraltar
Bay of Gibraltar · Olaf Tausch
The place

The Bay of Gibraltar, also known as Bay of Algeciras, is a bay at the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula. It is around 10 km (6.2 mi) long by 8 km (5.0 mi) wide, covering an area of some 75 km2 (29 sq mi), with a depth of up to 400 m (1,300 ft) in the centre of the bay. It opens to the south into the Strait of Gibraltar and the Mediterranean Sea.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Bay of Gibraltar

Airports
Gibraltar (GIB), 5 km · Sania Ramel (TTU), 60 km · Tangier Ibn Battuta (TNG), 65 km
  • Tétouan → Bay of Gibraltar
    61 km · quickest by road, 1h 30m · MAD19–26
  • Tangier → Bay of Gibraltar
    55 km · quickest by road, 1h 31m · MAD19–26
  • Málaga → Bay of Gibraltar
    109 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · €14–19
  • From anywhere
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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 Bay of Gibraltar

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundcolspan="2" | Citibus |- | rowspan="3" |Single || Adult || £1.80 || €2.40 || £1.40 || €2.10 |- | Child || £1.50 || €2.00 || £1.20 || €1.80 |- | Senior || £1.00 || €1.30 || £1.00 || €1.50 |- | rowspan="3" |Return || Adult || - || - || £2.20 || €3.30 |- | Child || - || - || £1.80 || €2.70 |- | Senior || - || - || £1.40 || €2.10 |- | rowspan="3" |Day || Adult || £2.50 || €3.30 || £6.00 || €9.00 |- | Child || £1.50 || €2.00 || £4.00 || €6.00 |- | Senior || £1.50 || €2.00 || - || - |} Bus route 2 goes by the cable car station.

From Wikivoyage: Gibraltar, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    107 km
  2. 02
    Merzouga and Erg ChebbiMA

    8 ways of moving, 41 sources

    574 km
  3. 03
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    1,553 km
  4. 04
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    1,558 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    1,651 km

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

Around it

Next door to Bay of Gibraltar

Bay of Gibraltar is 54 km from Tangier, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.