Area guide · Madinaty
A city of 8,000 feddans, not a compound
Madinaty is a Talaat Moustafa city east of New Cairo, off the Suez Road, built on 8,000 feddans with a master plan for around 120,000 homes. It is bigger than people expect before they drive it, and the district letter on a unit — B6, B12 — tells you more about what you are buying than the floor plan does.
- Developer
- Talaat Moustafa Group
- Area
- New Cairo
Madinaty with Blackhorse
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Who built Madinaty
Madinaty is developed by the Arab Company for Projects and Urban Development, a subsidiary of the EGX-listed Talaat Moustafa Group.
The scale of Madinaty
Madinaty is a full city rather than a conventional compound: it covers 8,000 feddans, roughly 33.6 million square metres, and its master plan targets about 120,000 housing units and around 700,000 residents at full build-out.
How Madinaty is laid out
Construction of Madinaty started in 2006, the first phase was delivered in 2013, and handover of later phases has continued since.
The master plan was drawn up by American design firms, with HHCP Design International as master planner and SWA Group as landscape architects.
Madinaty's residential districts are known by the letter B followed by a number; the lower numbers are the earliest districts built and the higher numbers the newest.
Each residential zone has its own service centre, and the zones are provided with basic day-to-day amenities including a supermarket, a mosque, an outpatient clinic and a park.
Madinaty is monitored by a CCTV system covering the city with security services available 24 hours a day, and a dedicated City Hall handles the management, operation and maintenance of the residential and service districts.
Privado is an exclusive residential community of 276 feddans located inside Madinaty and designed by the American firm Perkins Eastman.
The Spine is a planned mixed-use corridor of about 2.4 million square metres of land running roughly 5 kilometres through Madinaty; it has been approved by the Egyptian Cabinet as an investment zone and is not yet built.
Living in Madinaty
The older B districts are fully handed over with mature trees and settled landscaping, while the newest districts are still in delivery or sit alongside active construction.
What is inside Madinaty
Madinaty Sporting Club spans more than 200 feddans inside the city and hosts a branch of the Liverpool FC International Academy.
Madinaty Golf Club has an 18-hole championship course of about 420,000 square metres designed by Robert Trent Jones II and managed by Troon, plus a 9-hole FootGolf course, and it has been named Egypt's Best Golf Course at the World Golf Awards several years running.
Central Park in Madinaty is an open recreation area of about 35 feddans with restaurants, cafes, food trucks and a panoramic gym.
Mosques are distributed across Madinaty's residential districts, numbering 18 by the developer's own count, and the city also has the Coptic Orthodox Church of St. Mary and Mar Girgis.
Shopping in Madinaty
Open Air Mall is Madinaty's main shopping destination, built on over 404,000 square metres across 8 buildings linked by vintage-style trams, and anchored by a Carrefour hypermarket and a Renaissance Cinemas multiplex.
Arabesque was the first multipurpose commercial centre to open in Madinaty and is laid out in souk style for residents' everyday needs, while Craft Zone at the south-eastern end of the city groups supermarkets, bakeries, pharmacies, butchers and car-maintenance workshops.
East Hub is a Madinaty district combining commercial, administrative and medical services.
Medical care in Madinaty
All Seasons Park covers 54,000 square metres with 230 shops over three floors, and its second floor is a medical hub of around 100 clinics across all specialties together with radiology centres and laboratories.
Schools in Madinaty
The British International School Madinaty (BISM) opened inside Madinaty in 2013 as the city's first British international school, teaching the British curriculum from pre-school through Year 12.
Madinaty Language School (MLS) was founded in 2013 as the first national school in Madinaty, delivering the Egyptian national curriculum in English up to the Thanaweya Amma.
Madinaty Integrated Language Schools (MILS) opened in 2014 and is the only school in Madinaty offering a French stream alongside its English stream.
All three of Madinaty's main schools run their own early-years sections, so nursery and kindergarten years can be done inside the city without driving out to New Cairo.
The British University in Egypt is in neighbouring El Shorouk City and is the closest university to Madinaty; El Shorouk also hosts the French University in Egypt and El Shorouk Academy.
Badr City, east of Madinaty, holds Badr University in Cairo and the Egyptian Russian University, while New Cairo's Fifth Settlement to the south-west holds the American University in Cairo, the German University in Cairo and Future University in Egypt.
Getting in and out of Madinaty
Madinaty sits on the Cairo-Suez Desert Road, a highway of roughly 106 km that starts at its junction with the Greater Cairo Ring Road and runs east past New Cairo, El Shorouk, Badr and the New Administrative Capital to the entrance of Suez.
Madinaty is not on the Ring Road itself, so the drive toward Cairo runs west along the Cairo-Suez Road to the point where it meets the Ring Road.
The stretch of the Cairo-Suez Road serving Madinaty lies between the Greater Cairo Ring Road and the Regional Ring Road, a section the state has widened and upgraded as a single road project.
At km 38 of the Cairo-Suez Road, the Talaat Moustafa flyover — about 980 metres long with roughly 6 km of connecting loops — carries movement between Madinaty, El Shorouk, Cairo and Suez without traffic crossing the highway at grade.
The Middle Ring Road, the orbital between the Greater Cairo Ring Road and the Regional Ring Road, is named by the Egyptian state as serving Madinaty, and its first phase runs about 22 km linking the Cairo-Suez Road to the Cairo-Ain Sokhna Road.
The Regional Ring Road, the outermost of Greater Cairo's orbitals, crosses the Cairo-Suez Road east of Madinaty, allowing movement north or south without entering Cairo.
The New Administrative Capital lies south-east of Madinaty, with Madinaty, El Shorouk and Badr forming the belt of cities along its northern side and the Cairo-Suez Road running along that northern edge.
Talaat Moustafa Group operates a bus fleet out of Madinaty, with internal routes between the city's districts and external routes to Heliopolis, Nasr City, Al Rehab and the New Administrative Capital.
No metro or monorail station serves Madinaty; the East Nile monorail line runs between Nasr City and the New Administrative Capital and does not stop in the city.
Questions people ask
- Is Madinaty a compound or a city, and who developed it?
- Madinaty is a full city rather than a conventional compound, covering 8,000 feddans — roughly 33.6 million square metres — east of New Cairo. It is developed by the Arab Company for Projects and Urban Development, a subsidiary of Talaat Moustafa Group, with a master plan by the American firms HHCP Design International and SWA Group. Construction began in 2006, the first phase was delivered in 2013, and handover of later phases continues.
- What do the B numbers mean in Madinaty, and which districts are the oldest?
- Madinaty's residential districts are named with the letter B followed by a number. The lower numbers are the earliest districts built, so they are fully handed over with mature trees and settled landscaping, while the higher numbers are the newest and some are still in delivery or sit alongside active construction. Each residential zone has its own service centre.
- What schools are inside Madinaty?
- Madinaty has three main schools inside the city. The British International School Madinaty opened in 2013 and teaches the British curriculum from pre-school to Year 12; Madinaty Language School, founded the same year, was the city's first national school and delivers the Egyptian curriculum in English up to the Thanaweya Amma; and Madinaty Integrated Language Schools opened in 2014 and is the only one offering a French stream alongside English. All three run early-years sections, so nursery and kindergarten can be done without leaving the city.
- Which universities are near Madinaty?
- The British University in Egypt is the closest, in neighbouring El Shorouk City, which also hosts the French University in Egypt and El Shorouk Academy. Badr City to the east holds Badr University in Cairo and the Egyptian Russian University. New Cairo's Fifth Settlement, to the south-west, adds the American University in Cairo, the German University in Cairo and Future University in Egypt.
- How do you get from Madinaty to Cairo, and is there a metro?
- Madinaty sits on the Cairo-Suez Desert Road, not on the Ring Road itself, so the drive toward Cairo runs west along the Suez Road to the point where it meets the Ring Road. No metro or monorail station serves Madinaty — the East Nile monorail runs between Nasr City and the New Administrative Capital without stopping in the city. Talaat Moustafa Group runs its own bus fleet with internal routes plus external services to Heliopolis, Nasr City, Al Rehab and the New Administrative Capital.
- What are the road connections around Madinaty?
- The Cairo-Suez Desert Road runs about 106 km from its junction with the Greater Cairo Ring Road east past New Cairo, El Shorouk, Badr and the New Administrative Capital to the entrance of Suez, and the stretch serving Madinaty has been widened and upgraded by the state. At km 38 the Talaat Moustafa flyover, about 980 metres long with roughly 6 km of connecting loops, carries movement between Madinaty, El Shorouk, Cairo and Suez without crossing the highway at grade. The Middle Ring Road is officially listed among the roads serving Madinaty, and the Regional Ring Road crosses the Suez Road east of the city.
- Where do residents shop and handle daily needs inside Madinaty?
- Open Air Mall is the main shopping destination, built on over 404,000 square metres across 8 buildings linked by vintage-style trams and anchored by a Carrefour hypermarket and a Renaissance Cinemas multiplex. All Seasons Park adds 230 shops over three floors, Arabesque is the city's original souk-style centre, Craft Zone at the south-eastern end covers supermarkets, bakeries, pharmacies, butchers and car workshops, and East Hub combines commercial, administrative and medical services. Beyond these, each residential zone has its own service centre with a supermarket, mosque, clinic and park.
- What sports, healthcare and recreation facilities are inside Madinaty?
- Madinaty Sporting Club spans more than 200 feddans and hosts a branch of the Liverpool FC International Academy, while Madinaty Golf Club has an 18-hole championship course of about 420,000 square metres designed by Robert Trent Jones II and managed by Troon, plus a 9-hole FootGolf course. Central Park is an open recreation area of about 35 feddans with restaurants, cafes, food trucks and a panoramic gym. For healthcare, the second floor of All Seasons Park is a medical hub of around 100 clinics across all specialties with radiology centres and laboratories, and each residential zone has an outpatient clinic in its service centre.
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