--- title: "Sharm el-Sheikh – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt: Sharm El Sheikh, alternatively rendered Sharm el-Sheikh or Charm el Sheikh, is an Egyptian city located on the southern tip of the…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sharm-el-sheikh" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sharm-el-sheikh.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Sharm_El_Sheikh_-_panoramio_%2815%29.jpg/3840px-Sharm_El_Sheikh_-_panoramio_%2815%29.jpg" --- City in Egypt · South Sinai # Sharm el-Sheikh Sharm El Sheikh, alternatively rendered Sharm el-Sheikh or Charm el Sheikh, is an Egyptian city located on the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula, in South Sinai Governorate, on the coastal strip along the Red Sea in Asia. ![Sharm el-Sheikh](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Sharm_El_Sheikh_-_panoramio_%2815%29.jpg/3840px-Sharm_El_Sheikh_-_panoramio_%2815%29.jpg) Sharm el-Sheikh · Wikimedia Commons The place Sharm El Sheikh, alternatively rendered Sharm el-Sheikh or Charm el Sheikh, is an Egyptian city located on the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula, in South Sinai Governorate, on the coastal strip along the Red Sea in Asia. Its population is approximately 77,000 as of 2017. Sharm El Sheikh is the administrative hub of Egypt's South Sinai Governorate, which includes the smaller coastal towns of Dahab and Nuweiba as well as the mountainous interior, St. Catherine and Mount Sinai. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharm_El_Sheikh), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Sharm el-Sheikh 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. Al-Sahaba Mosque The Al-Sahaba Mosque is a mosque located in the Old Market District of Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. Built in 2017, it is the second largest mosque in the city after the Al-Mostafa Mosque. 6.3 km · Mosque in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Sahaba_Mosque_(Sharm_el-Sheikh%29) 2. Ghazala Gardens hotel The Ghazala Gardens hotel Owens Now by Ahmed Ehab Abu Ghazala The hotel is a 176-room, four-star establishment in the Naama Bay area of the Egyptian beach resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, on the Sinai Peninsula. Its sister hotel, the Ghazala Beach, is across the street and is substantially larger. 500 m · building in Egypt · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghazala_Gardens_hotel) 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 Sharm el-Sheikh **Airports:** Sharm El Sheikh (SSH), 10 km · Neom Bay (NUM), 95 km · Hurghada (HRG), 97 km\ **Stations:** Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport, 9.6 km\ - Hurghada → Sharm el-Sheikh 89 km · quickest by ferry, 4h 55m · E£228–755 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/hurghada-to-sharm-el-sheikh) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Hurghada&to=Sharm+el-Sheikh) - Marsa Alam → Sharm el-Sheikh 322 km · quickest by road, 16h 6m · E£5,465–8,975 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/marsa-alam-to-sharm-el-sheikh) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Marsa+Alam&to=Sharm+el-Sheikh) - Luxor → Sharm el-Sheikh 298 km · quickest by road, 16h 11m · E£5,465–8,975 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/luxor-to-sharm-el-sheikh) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Luxor&to=Sharm+el-Sheikh) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Sharm%20el-Sheikh) 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 Sharm el-Sheikh 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 Sharm el-Sheikh. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get in {{go | name | url | address 27.977222 | long | phone | fax | price Sharm El Sheikh International Airport | image Q326268 | content=The largest airport in the Sinai, it receives plane-loads of charter tourists daily in the winter high season. - Get in Ferry services between Hurghada on the mainland Red Sea Coast and Sharm were suspended in 2018. - Get around There are also a fleet of blue and white tuk-tuks, which are basically small buses, of varying roadworthiness, which are used to ferry the locals around the resort of Sharm el Sheikh. - Get around To hail a tuk-tuk, wait next to the side of the main street and raise your hand to flag one down as it approaches. - Go next Lots of day trips but it deserves several days to explore. From [Wikivoyage: Sharm el-Sheikh](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Sharm_el-Sheikh), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Dahab](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/dahab) EG 8 ways of moving, 29 sources 67 km 2. [Wadi Rum](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/wadi-rum) JO 8 ways of moving, 23 sources 213 km 3. [Petra and Wadi Musa](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/petra) JO 12 ways of moving, 17 sources 290 km 4. [Kastellorizo](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kastellorizo) GR 8 ways of moving, 27 sources 1,018 km 5. [Naxos](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/naxos) GR 12 ways of moving, 17 sources 1,312 km If you know how people move in Sharm el-Sheikh – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Csharm-el-sheikh&title=Sharm+el-Sheikh&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fsharm-el-sheikh), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Sharm el-Sheikh - [Na'ama Bay](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/naama-bay) bay in the area of Sharm ash-Shaykh 700 m - [Ofira](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ofira) human settlement in Egypt 6.2 km [The place page for Sharm el-Sheikh](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/sharm-el-sheikh) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Egypt](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-EG) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sharm-el-sheikh, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt