Nouakchott
Worth seeing in and around Nouakchott
10 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.
- 01
- 02
- 03
- 04
- 05
- 06
- 07
- 08
- 09
- 10
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 Nouakchott
- Airports
- Nouakchott–Oumtounsy (NKC), 25 km
- Stations
- Nouakchott Old Airport, 3.2 km
- Nouadhibou → Nouakchott336 km · quickest by air, 4h 33m · $170–250
- Dakar → Nouakchott408 km · quickest by air, 7h 27m · $320–460
- Banjul (Yundum) → Nouakchott533 km · quickest by air, 7h 42m · $250–380
- 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 Nouakchott
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 Nouakchott. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get in6 hours): minibuses leave from Garage Atar along the N1 northeast of town, fare about 500 MRU to Atar.
- Get in3 hours): Minibuses depart from garages near Carrefour Madrid, sept-places from the Garage Riyadh 7km further south.
- Get aroundNormal fare in a shared taxi is 100 UM, but taxis around the city for non-set routes can cost up to 300 UM per person.
- Get aroundThere are mainly shared taxis running in the city, but if you want to ride alone, you need to pay for all the seats (600 UM).
- Go nextThough probably more convenient option is shared taxis.
From Wikivoyage: Nouakchott, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-07.
- 01981 km
- 021,883 km
- 032,174 km
- 043,142 km
- 053,758 km
If you know how people move in Nouakchott – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Nouakchott
- Ksarcommune and city in Nouakchott-Ouest, Mauritania2.4 km