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Tétouan

Tétouan is a city in northern Morocco.

Tétouan
Tétouan · Diego Delso (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The place

Tétouan is a city in northern Morocco. It lies along the Martil Valley and is one of the two major ports of Morocco on the Mediterranean Sea, a few miles south of the Strait of Gibraltar, and about 60 kilometres (37 mi) E.S.E. of Tangier. As of 2024, the city has an estimated population of 469,465 inhabitants. It is part of the administrative division Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Tétouan

7 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
    Medina of Tétouan

    Tétouan is a city in northern Morocco. It lies along the Martil Valley and is one of the two major ports of Morocco on the Mediterranean Sea, a few miles south of the Strait of Gibraltar, and about 60 kilometres E.S.E. of Tangier.

    500 m · World heritage site in Morocco · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Saniat Rmel

    Saniat Rmel Stadium is a football stadium in Tétouan, Morocco. It is the home ground of MA Tétouan.It used to be during colonial period a bullring where the stadium was filled with sand.

    1.8 km · football stadium · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Isaac Ben Walid Synagogue

    The Isaac Ben Walid Synagogue, is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in the mellah of Tetuan, Morocco.

    400 m · synagogue in Tetuan, Morocco · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Abdelmalek Essaâdi University

    The Abdelmalek Essaâdi University is a Moroccan public university established in 1989 and headquartered in Tétouan. It is one of the main higher education institutions in northern Morocco.

    700 m · university in Morocco · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    medersa loukach

    Medersa Loukach is a Madrasa built in 1758 in the Medina of Tetouan, Morocco. It was built in 1758 on the order of the Alaouite Sultan Mohammed ben Abdallah to serve as a school and residence for students who came from surrounding regions to study theology in Tetouan.

    500 m · museum in Tetouan, Morocco · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Musée d'ethnographie à Tétouan

    The Tetouan Ethnographic Museum or Bab El Oqla Museum is an ethnographic museum located east of the old medina of Tétouan in Morocco, and is named after one of the seven historic gates of the city.

    500 m · ethnographic Museum in Tétouan, Morocco · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    École nationale des sciences appliquées de Tétouan

    The École nationale des sciences appliquées de Tétouan is a public engineering school located in Tetouan, Morocco. It was established in September 2008 and is part of the network of Écoles nationales des sciences appliquées.

    600 m · University in Morocco · 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.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

Unlike any other Moroccan Medina, Tétouan's

  1. 01
    Medina
  2. 02
    Bab El Okla

    Houses Ethnographic Museum (also known as Bab El Okla Museum).

  3. 03
    Bab Jiaf
  4. 04
    Bab Mkaber
  5. 05
    Bab Saida
  6. 06
    Museum

    It's on the premises of the former Mosque of Laouk.

From Wikivoyage: Tétouan, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

Tétouan is surrounded by two mountains:

  1. 01
    Mount Dersa
  2. 02
    Mount Ghorghiz

From Wikivoyage: Tétouan, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    Restinga Restaurant

    21 Av.

  2. 02
    Dallas

    Small teashop/patisserie with lots of sweets and baked goods on offer.

  3. 03
    Restaurant La Union
  4. 04
    Cafeteria Pizzeria Lisboa

From Wikivoyage: Tétouan, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Tétouan

Airports
Sania Ramel (TTU), 5 km · Tangier Ibn Battuta (TNG), 53 km · Gibraltar (GIB), 65 km
Stations
Tetouan Saniat R'mel Airport, 5.2 km
  • Tangier → Tétouan
    44 km · quickest by road, 1h 29m · MAD23–31
  • Saïss → Tétouan
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Rabat → Tétouan
    219 km · quickest by road, 4h 25m · MAD120–160
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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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 Tétouan

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextTangier – Famous port city with ferry connections to Spain.

From Wikivoyage: Tétouan, 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
    ChefchaouenMA

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    45 km
  2. 02
    Merzouga and Erg ChebbiMA

    8 ways of moving, 41 sources

    512 km
  3. 03
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    1,597 km
  4. 04
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    1,599 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    1,713 km

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

Around it

Next door to Tétouan

Tétouan is 45 km from Tangier, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Tamudaancient city in the North of Morocco4.1 km