Taiz
Taiz is a city in southwestern Yemen.
Taiz is a city in southwestern Yemen. It is located in the Yemeni highlands, near the port city of Mocha on the Red Sea, at an elevation of about 1,400 metres (4,600 ft) above sea level. It is the capital of Taiz Governorate. As of 2023, the city has an estimated population of approximately 940,600 residents, making it the third largest city in Yemen.
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What Wikivoyage says to see
The city wall has four gates and is crowned by the Cairo castle.
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The castle on a hill above the city is nicely illuminated at night.
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Has some features dating to the 6th century AH.
From Wikivoyage: Taiz, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Taiz
- Airports
- Aden (ADE), 137 km · Sanaa (SAH), 212 km · Djibouti-Ambouli (JIB), 245 km
- Aden → Taiz142 km · quickest by road, 3h 38m · $16–22
- Sanaa → Taiz198 km · quickest by road, 4h 48m · $21–28
- Seiyun → Taiz576 km · quickest by air, 10h 5m · $400–580
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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.
No local-transport research exists yet for Taiz
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 Taiz. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Taiz – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Taiz
Taiz is 46 km from Ibb, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.