Grand Yoff
Grand Yoff is a commune d'arrondissement of the city of Dakar, Senegal.
Grand Yoff is a commune d'arrondissement of the city of Dakar, Senegal. As of 2013 it had a population of 185,503.
It is composed of 66 sub-districts, each represented by a district delegate. Grand Yoff is part of the Parcelles Assainies district. The neighborhood of Grand Yoff is the most populated neighborhood in Dakar, and the 7th most populated in Senegal.
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Worth seeing in and around Grand Yoff
9 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.
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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.
Getting to Grand Yoff
- Airports
- Blaise Diagne (DSS), 41 km · Banjul (BJL), 177 km
- Stations
- Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport, 3.4 km
- Dakar → Grand Yoff5 km · quickest by road, 13 min · $0.5–1
- Banjul (Yundum) → Grand Yoff178 km · quickest by road, 6h 40m · $27–38
- Bissau → Grand Yoff377 km · quickest by air, 6h 38m · $260–390
- 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 Grand Yoff
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 Grand Yoff. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inA state-owned ferry runs between Dakar and Ziguinchor in Senegal's Casamance region (below The Gambia).
- Get inThe Joola, one of the former ferries on this route, capsized in a storm while overloaded in 2002, regarded as the second deadliest maritime disaster in recent history.
- Get inThe Aline Sitoé Diatta, built in 2008, is the current ferry.
- Get inThe ferry runs overnight and takes around 16 hours in each direction.
- Go nextSine Saloum Delta — Just north of the border with Gambia, the Delta has amazing mangrove forests that you can tour by pirogue (a motored canoe).
From Wikivoyage: Dakar, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Grand Yoff
Grand Yoff is 4 km from Dakar, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Yoffdistrict of Dakar, Senegal3.7 km
- Parcelles Assainiesdistrict of Dakar, Senegal2.9 km
- Sicap-Libertédistrict of Dakar, Senegal2 km
- HLMdistrict of Dakar, Senegal3.1 km
- Patte d'Oiedistrict of Dakar, Senegal1.8 km
- Biscuiteriedistrict of Dakar, Senegal3.2 km