Is Ash Shuhadā’ safe? Egypt travel risk
Is Ash Shuhadā’ safe right now? Checked 16 October 2026
Ash Shuhadā’ scores 56/100 on our travel risk index (Elevated). The US State Department rates Egypt Level 2 (Exercise Increased Caution, updated 15 Jul 2025); the UK FCDO advises against all travel to parts of the country (updated 4 Aug 2026); Canada says: exercise a high degree of caution (with regional advisories). No GDACS or USGS hazard events within 100 km in the last 14 days. No change in government advice in the last 7 days.
Ash Shuhadā’ scores 56/100 (Elevated). The score combines security, crime and scams, health and medical access, natural hazards and current alerts measured for this location and Egypt (how it is calculated). The sections below are specific to Ash Shuhadā’: nearest emergency and transport facilities, 5-year natural hazard history within 100 km.
Driven by: security (69/100) and health and medical access (60/100).
A score of 56 is higher than the scores of 80% of the 241 countries we cover.
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Local Geographic Profile
Charted at coordinates 30.5968° N, 30.8993° E in Al Minūfīyah, Ash Shuhadā’ maintains a regional distance of 69.4 km SSE to Cairo.
Al Minūfīyah
30.5968° N, 30.8993° E
13 m
Africa/Cairo
358,486
Emergency & Transport Infrastructure
Surrounding Localities in Egypt
Natural Hazard Calendar & History
5-Year Hazard Calendar (100 km Radius)
| Hazard | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floods | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 |
Most flood events within 100 km of Ash Shuhadā’ happened in December (1 of 1 in five years).
Source: GDACS, USGS; five years to October 2026.
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