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# Ofira

Ofira is a former Israeli settlement in the Sharm El Sheikh area of the southern Sinai Peninsula, an Egyptian territory that was under occupation from 1967 to 1982.

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## Every way there

- Hurghada → Ofira 89 km · quickest by ferry, 4h 55m · E£228–755 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/hurghada-to-ofira) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Hurghada&to=Ofira)
- Marsa Alam → Ofira 322 km · quickest by road, 16h 6m · E£5,465–8,975 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/marsa-alam-to-ofira) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Marsa+Alam&to=Ofira)
- Luxor → Ofira 298 km · quickest by road, 16h 11m · E£5,465–8,975 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/luxor-to-ofira) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Luxor&to=Ofira)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Ofira, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

[Read the note on Ofira](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ofira)

What Ofira has

- Y Scheduled flights Sharm El Sheikh (SSH), 16 km
- Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 2 timetable feeds for this country, 0 with real-time
- Y Ferries شرم الشيخ, 6 km; sailings estimated
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

27.867°, 34.295°

Ofira was settled from 1969 and was meant to accommodate 500 families. An airfield was opened in 1968, today known as Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport.

How locals move

## Getting around Ofira the local way

- 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.
- Go next Hurghada, if the ferry from Sharm resumes, puts you on the road to fabulous Luxor.

From [Wikivoyage: Sharm el-Sheikh](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Sharm_el-Sheikh), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofira), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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