Maradi
Maradi is a city in Niger and the administrative centre of Maradi Region.
Maradi is a city in Niger and the administrative centre of Maradi Region. It is also the seat of the Maradi Department and an Urban Commune. Maradi has an estimated population of 270,000 and is the second largest city in Niger after the capital Niamey.
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Worth seeing in and around Maradi
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.
- 01Aboubacar Ibrahim International University
Aboubacar Ibrahim International University is a private university in the city of Maradi in the Republic of Niger.
2.7 km · private university in Maradi, Niger Republic · Wikipedia - 02Université Dan Dicko Dankoulodo de Maradi
The Dan Dicko Dankoulodo University of Maradi is a Nigerien university located in Maradi. It started in 2008 with a university institute of technology.
3.3 km · university in Maradi, Niger · Wikipedia - 03Our Lady of Lourdes Cathedral
The Our Lady of Lourdes Cathedral or simply Cathedral of Maradi, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in the town of Maradi, the third largest city in the African country of Niger.
1.1 km · church in Maradi · Wikipedia - 04Stade de Maradi
Stade de Maradi is a multi-purpose stadium in Maradi, Niger.
2.3 km · stadium in Maradi, Niger · Wikipedia
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Getting to Maradi
- Airports
- Sadiq Abubakar III (SKO), 214 km · Mallam Aminu Kano (KAN), 222 km
- Stations
- Maradi Airport, 2.9 km
- Niamey → Maradi540 km · quickest by road, 10h 9m · $55–75
- Sokoto → Maradi207 km · quickest by road, 4h 47m · ₦13,950–18,600
- Kano → Maradi227 km · quickest by road, 4h 5m · ₦14,450–19,250
- 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 Maradi
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 Maradi. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get in1 skirts the city to the north; the turn off is clearly marked in both directions (but is very poorly regulated; slow way down and watch for trucks, motorcycles, bicycles, and donkey carts coming from all directions).
- Get inBush taxis are the central means of transportation for most of Niger, and Maradi is the bush taxi hub for the region.
- Get inIf you are traveling within the Maradi region or from Nigeria, this is often your only option; bush taxis arrive and depart several locations within the city for the rest of the region, with costs ranging from 200-1500 FCFA for within the region.
- Get inIf you are planning on turning your experiences traveling in Niger into a book and you want the most harrowing stories possible, than definitely try to make this trip by bush taxi.
- Get inIf you are coming from Kano or Katsina, you will probably have to take a bush taxi; no Nigerien bus companies, at least, service Kano or any other city in Nigeria.
From Wikivoyage: Maradi, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.
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