Guédiawaye
Guédiawaye is a city in the Guédiawaye Department of the Dakar Region of Senegal.
Guédiawaye is a city in the Guédiawaye Department of the Dakar Region of Senegal. Lying on the Atlantic Ocean to the northeast of Dakar city centre, in 2013 it had a population of 329,659. Until the mid-2000s, the département was part of Pikine.
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Worth seeing in and around Guédiawaye
One place 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.
- 01Stade Al Djigo
Stade Alassane Djigo is a multi-use stadium in Pikine, Senegal. It is currently used mostly for football matches and serves as a home ground of AS Pikine.
3.3 km · building in Senegal · Wikipedia
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Getting to Guédiawaye
- Airports
- Blaise Diagne (DSS), 37 km · Banjul (BJL), 180 km
- Banjul (Yundum) → Guédiawaye179 km · quickest by road, 6h 36m · $27–37
- Bissau → Guédiawaye378 km · quickest by air, 6h 26m · $250–370
- Nouakchott → Guédiawaye398 km · quickest by air, 7h 17m · $310–450
- 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 Guédiawaye
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 Guédiawaye. 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 Guédiawaye
Guédiawaye is 2 km from Pikine, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Pikinecity in Senegal4.4 km
- Cambérènedistrict of Dakar, Senegal3.7 km
- Parcelles Assainiesdistrict of Dakar, Senegal5 km