Shubrā al Khaymah
Shubra El Kheima, is the fourth-largest city in Egypt after Cairo, Giza and Alexandria.
Shubra El Kheima, is the fourth-largest city in Egypt after Cairo, Giza and Alexandria. It is located in the Qalyubia Governorate along the northern edge of the Cairo Governorate. It forms part of the Greater Cairo metropolitan area.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Shubrā al Khaymah
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.
- 01Egyptian Museum
The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, commonly known as the Egyptian Museum and also called the Cairo Museum or the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, is a national history museum in Cairo, Egypt. An Egyptological museum, it houses the largest collection of Egyptian antiquities in the world, including over 170,000 items.
9 km · museum in Cairo · Wikipedia - 02Tahrir Square
Tahrir Square, also known as Martyr Square, is a public town square in downtown Cairo, Egypt. The square has been the location and focus for political demonstrations.
9.4 km · public town square in Downtown Cairo, Egypt · Wikipedia - 03al-Azhar Mosque
Al-Azhar Mosque, known in Egypt simply as al-Azhar, is a mosque in the historic Islamic core of the city of Cairo, Egypt. Commissioned as the new capital of the Fatimid Caliphate in 970 CE, it was the first mosque established in a city that eventually earned the nickname "the City of a Thousand Minarets".
9.4 km · mosque in Islamic Cairo, Egypt · Wikipedia - 04Cairo International Stadium
The Cairo International Stadium, formerly known as Nasser Stadium, is an Olympic-standard, multi-use stadium with an all-seated capacity of 75,000. The architect of the stadium is the German Werner March, who designed the Olympic Stadium in Berlin from 1934 to 1936.
9.4 km · Football Stadium in Cairo, Egypt · Wikipedia - 05Ain Shams University
Ain Shams University is a public university located in Cairo, Egypt. Founded in 1950, the university provides education at the undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate levels.
7.1 km · public university in Cairo, Egypt · Wikipedia - 06Cairo Tower
The Cairo Tower is a free-standing concrete tower in Cairo, Egypt. At 187 m, it was the tallest structure in Egypt for 37 years until 1998, when it was surpassed by the Suez Canal overhead powerline crossing.
9.4 km · free-standing concrete tower in Zamalek, Cairo, Egypt · Wikipedia - 07City of the Dead
The City of the Dead, or Cairo Necropolis, also referred to as the Qarāfa, is a series of vast Islamic-era necropolises and cemeteries in Cairo, Egypt. They extend to the north and to the south of the Cairo Citadel, below the Mokattam Hills and outside the historic city walls, covering an area roughly 4 miles long.
9.7 km · cemetery in Egypt · Wikipedia - 08Al-Hakim Mosque
The al-Hakim Mosque, also known as al-Anwar, is a mosque in Cairo, Egypt. It is named after al-Ḥākim bi-Amr Allāh, the 6th Fatimid caliph and 16th Ismāʿīlī Imam.
8.5 km · mosque in Egypt · Wikipedia - 09Al-Hussein Mosque
The al-Hussein Mosque is a mosque and mausoleum, located near the Khan el-Khalili bazaar in Cairo, Egypt. Containing the tomb of Husayn ibn Ali that was originally built in 1154, the mosque and mausoleum were reconstructed in 1874.
9.2 km · mosque in Egypt · Wikipedia - 10Abdeen Palace
Abdeen District is the home of Abdeen Palace, a 19th-century Cairo palace built by Khedive Ismail and served as the Egyptian royal household's primary official residence from 1874 until the 1952 Egyptian revolution. Since then it has been one of the presidential palaces.
9.7 km · palace of Cairo, Egypt · 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.
Getting to Shubrā al Khaymah
- Airports
- Cairo (CAI), 15 km · Sphinx (SPX), 33 km · Port Said (PSD), 160 km
- Stations
- Ramses Station, 7.2 km
- Port Said → Shubrā al Khaymah162 km · quickest by road, 2h 59m · E£260–345
- Alexandria → Shubrā al Khaymah175 km · quickest by road, 2h 59m · E£300–400
- El Arish → Shubrā al Khaymah268 km · quickest by road, 4h 52m · E£425–570
- 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 Shubrā al Khaymah
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 Shubrā al Khaymah. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inAs of 2025 it has only seasonal charter services operated by Smartwings.
- Get inA cheaper option to get to Sharm by bus is to take a bus, a train, or a minibus to Suez and from the main bus station there, take the 11AM or the 1:20PM bus to Sharm.
- Get aroundBecause of problems with sexual harassment women travellers are advised only to take the small minibuses and buses which prohibit standing.
- Get aroundOn minibuses, the fare starts at LE5 and goes up to LE15 depending on the length of the route.
- Get aroundThere are actually two stations - the main bus station for the city buses, and the minibus station behind it.
From Wikivoyage: Cairo, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
- 01365 km
- 02407 km
- 03408 km
- 04687 km
- 05938 km
If you know how people move in Shubrā al Khaymah – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Shubrā al Khaymah
Shubrā al Khaymah is 6 km from Ḩadā’iq al Qubbah, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Cairocapital city of Egypt9.4 km
- Heliopoliscity of ancient Egypt4.5 km
- Islamic Cairourban district9.4 km
- Qalyubtown in the Al Qalyubiyah governorate of Egypt8.7 km
- Bulaqurban district of Cairo, Egypt8.5 km
- Zamalekurban district in Cairo, Egypt7.7 km