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Area in Hawalli Governorate, Kuwait

Salmiya

Salmiya is an area in Hawalli Governorate in Kuwait.

Salmiya
Salmiya · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Salmiya is an area in Hawalli Governorate in Kuwait.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Salmiya

2 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.

  1. 01
    Thamir Stadium

    Thamir Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Al Salmiya, Kuwait. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Al Salmiya Club.

    1 km · stadium · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    American University of Kuwait

    The American University of Kuwait is a private liberal arts institution located in Salmiya, Kuwait. Established in 2003 by Amiri decree, AUK is affiliated with Dartmouth College.

    1.2 km · university in Kuwait · Wikipedia

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.

Go there

Getting to Salmiya

Airports
Kuwait (KWI), 16 km · Abadan Ayatollah Jami (ABD), 116 km · Basra (BSR), 141 km
  • Abadan → Salmiya
    1265 km · quickest by air, 12h 41m · $590–860
  • Basra → Salmiya
    1215 km · quickest by air, 12h 52m · $610–880
  • Qaisumah → Salmiya
    1222 km · quickest by air, 12h 26m · SAR1,000–1,490
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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 Salmiya

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inScheduled ferries to and from Iran are handled by Kuwait-Iran Shipping Company, phone +965 2410498, fax +965 2429508.
  • Get inThe ferries go three times a week from Ash Shuwayk in Kuwait to Bushehr in Iran.
  • Get inSpeedboats also go between Ash Shuwayk and Manama in Bahrain.
  • Get aroundExpect to pay KD 2-3 for the shared taxi with 3-4 other passengers.
  • Get aroundKD 10 for a small two door Japanese made car, 4WD and American made sports cars may cost around KD 25.

From Wikivoyage: Kuwait, 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
    Yeghegnadzor and the Vayots Dzor valleyAM

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,186 km
  2. 02
    Petra and Wadi MusaJO

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,221 km
  3. 03
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    1,226 km
  4. 04
    Sheki (Şəki)AZ

    10 ways of moving, 46 sources

    1,322 km
  5. 05
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    1,323 km

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

Around it

Next door to Salmiya

Salmiya is 29 km from Al Aḩmadī, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.