Al Qurnah
in New Valley Governorate, Egypt
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Luxor International Airport (7 mi) - Sohag International Airport (68 mi)
- Aswan International Airport (122 mi)
- Marsa Alam International Airport (124 mi)
- Hurghada International Airport (125 mi)
- El Kharga Airport (127 mi)
- Assiut International Airport (134 mi)
- El Tor Airport (183 mi)
- Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis (Unesco heritage, 1 mi)
- Decimal Coordinates (Latitude, Longitude):
- 25.725 and 32.603 (Lat./Lng.)
- Coordinates by Time:
- N 25° 43' 31" and E 32° 36' 11"
- Currency and Currency Code:
- Pound - EGP
- Spoken languages:
- Arabic, English, French
- Local electricity:
- 230 V - 50 Hz (plugs: G)
- Mobile phone / cellular frequencies (MHz):
- 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, 3G, 4G
- Local Time: 06:43 PM (Friday)
- Timezone: Africa/Cairo
- UTC/GMT offset: 2 hours
- Sunrise and Sunset:
- 5:06 am and 6:25 pm
- Antipode Coordinates:
- -23.883 and -147.700 (Lat./Lng.)
- Closest place to antipode coordinates:
Matotea - References
- This place on Geonames.org
Safety Score: 3,4 of 5.0 based on data from 9 authorites. Meaning please reconsider your need to travel to Egypt.
Travel warnings are updated daily. Source: Travel Warning Egypt. Last Update: 2024-05-10 08:04:54
Delve into Al Qurnah
Al Qurnah in New Valley Governorate is located in Egypt about 311 mi (or 500 km) south of Cairo, the country's capital town.
Current time in Al Qurnah is now 06:43 PM (Friday). The local timezone is named Africa / Cairo with an UTC offset of 2 hours. We know of 8 airports close to Al Qurnah, of which one is a larger airport. The closest airport in Egypt is Luxor International Airport in a distance of 7 mi (or 12 km), South-East. Besides the airports, there are other travel options available (check left side).
There is one Unesco world heritage site nearby. It's Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis in a distance of 1 mi (or 1 km), North. If you need a hotel, we compiled a list of available hotels close to the map centre further down the page.
While being here, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: Luxor, Qina, Sohag, Aswan and Hurghada. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info.
Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 37°C / 99 °F
| Morning Temperature | 25°C / 77 °F |
| Evening Temperature | 40°C / 104 °F |
| Night Temperature | 33°C / 91 °F |
| Chance of rainfall | 0% |
| Air Humidity | 10% |
| Air Pressure | 1008 hPa |
| Wind Speed | Light breeze with 5 km/h (3 mph) from West |
| Cloud Conditions | Clear sky, covering 9% of sky |
| General Conditions | Sky is clear |
Saturday, 11th of May 2024
37°C (99 °F)
32°C (89 °F)
Sky is clear, moderate breeze, clear sky.
Sunday, 12th of May 2024
35°C (96 °F)
28°C (83 °F)
Sky is clear, fresh breeze, clear sky.
Monday, 13th of May 2024
32°C (89 °F)
27°C (81 °F)
Sky is clear, fresh breeze, clear sky.
Hotels and Places to Stay
Pavillon Winter Luxor
Mercure Luxor Karnak
Hilton Luxor Resort - Spa
Sofitel Winter Palace Luxor
Sonesta St. George Hotel - Luxor
STEIGENBERGER NILE PALACE LUXOR
Queens Valley Luxor
Iberotel Luxor
Nile Towers Hotel Appartement
Royal House Hotel
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Thebes, Egypt
Thebes is the Greek name for a city in Ancient Egypt, natively known as Waset, located about 800 km south of the Mediterranean, on the east bank of the river Nile within the modern city of Luxor. The Theban Necropolis is situated nearby on the west bank of the Nile.
KV55
KV55 is a tomb in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. It was discovered by Edward R. Ayrton in 1907 while he was working in the Valley for Theodore M. Davis. It has long been speculated, as well as much-disputed, that the body found in this tomb was that of the famous Pharaoh Akhenaten, who moved the capital to Akhetaten.
Ramesseum
The Ramesseum is the memorial temple of Pharaoh Ramesses II ("Ramesses the Great", also spelled "Ramses" and "Rameses"). It is located in the Theban necropolis in Upper Egypt, across the River Nile from the modern city of Luxor. The name – or at least its French form, Rhamesséion – was coined by Jean-François Champollion, who visited the ruins of the site in 1829 and first identified the hieroglyphs making up Ramesses's names and titles on the walls.
Deir el-Medina
Deir el-Medina is an ancient Egyptian village which was home to the artisans who worked on the tombs in the Valley of the Kings during the 18th to 20th dynasties of the New Kingdom period (ca. 1550–1080 BC) The settlement's ancient name was "Set Maat" (translated as "The Place of Truth"), and the workmen who lived there were called “Servants in the Place of Truth”.
QV66
QV66 is the tomb of Nefertari, the Great Wife of Ramesses II, in Egypt's Valley of the Queens. It was discovered by Ernesto Schiaparelli in 1904. It is called the Sistine Chapel of Ancient Egypt.
Medinet Habu (location)
Medinet Habu is an archaeological locality situated near the foot of the Theban Hills on the West Bank of the River Nile opposite the modern city of Luxor, Egypt. Although other structures are located within the area, the location is today associated almost exclusively (and indeed, most synonymously) with the Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III.
KV20
KV20 is a tomb in the Valley of the Kings. It was probably the first royal tomb to be constructed in the valley. KV20 was the original burial place of Thutmose I (who was later re-interred in KV38) and later was adapted by his daughter Hatshepsut to accommodate both her and her father. The tomb was known to the Napoleonic Expedition in 1799, but a full clearance of the tomb only was undertaken by Howard Carter in 1903, although it had been visited by several explorers between 1799 and 1903.
Medinet Habu (temple)
Medinet Habu is the name commonly given to the Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III, an important New Kingdom period structure in the location of the same name on the West Bank of Luxor in Egypt. Aside from its intrinsic size and architectural and artistic importance, the temple is probably best known as the source of inscribed reliefs depicting the advent and defeat of the Sea Peoples during the reign of Ramesses III.
KV40
Tomb KV40, is located in the Valley of the Kings, in Egypt. The original occupant of this tomb is unknown. Only the upper part of the shaft is accessible; the rest is filled with rubble, and nothing is known about the tomb's layout, although the tomb was excavated by Victor Loret in 1899, no report was published.
Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III
The Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III is located in the Theban necropolis, on the west bank of the Nile, opposite Luxor in Egypt. It was built for the Pharaoh Amenhotep III. When constructed it was the largest of the mortuary temples in the Theban area, larger than the complex at Karnak, and covered an area of 350,000 square metres. Today very little remains of the complex, with only the Colossi of Memnon – two massive 18-metre stone statues of Amenhotep that stood at the gateway, still visible.
Theban Necropolis
The Theban Necropolis is an area of the west bank of the Nile, opposite Thebes in Egypt. It was used for ritual burials for much of Pharaonic times, especially in the New Kingdom of Egypt.
TT8
TT8 or Theban Tomb 8 was the site of one of the greatest archaeological discoveries in ancient Egypt. This New Kingdom era tomb was one of the few tombs of Ancient Egypt's nobility to have survived intact down through the centuries - it was only discovered by Arthur Weigall and Ernesto Schiaparelli in 1906 on behalf of the Italian Archaeological Mission. Its discoverers used 250 workers to dig in pursuit of the tomb for several weeks.
These are some bigger and more relevant cities in the wider vivinity of Al Qurnah.
This place is known by different names. Here the ones we know:
El Qûrna, Al Qurnah, Al-Qurnah, القرنة
