Cable car · Algiers, Algeria
Téléphérique El Madania
Téléphérique El Madania is a cable car near Algiers, Algeria. It climbs 101 m over 213 m, from 28 m to 129 m above sea level. With no pylon on the way, the cable runs up to about 22 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
4/100 · Gentle
By the numbers, Téléphérique El Madania is scarier than 4% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 20 of 22 in Algeria.
- Highest above the ground: about 22 m, as high as a 7-storey building, 122 m after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 213 m.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 25°.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of Téléphérique El Madania is near Algiers, Algeria, at 28 m above sea level (36.74944° N, 3.06676° E). From there it runs 213 m up to the top station at 129 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
- Capacity
- 2,000 people per hour
- Per cabin
- 35 people
- Ride time
- about 2 min
Nearby lines
- Téléphérique Mémorial cable car · 0.7 km away · rises 86 m
- Téléphérique Palais de la Culture cable car · 1.7 km away · rises 93 m
- Télécabine Oued Korriche gondola · 4.9 km away · rises 308 m
- Télécabine Z'ghara gondola · 5.8 km away · rises 93 m
- Téléphérique Notre Dame d'Afrique cable car · 6.4 km away · rises 94 m
- Télécabine Blida gondola · 36.2 km away · rises 732 m
Pylon heights are estimated (30 m), so the height above ground is approximate. Terrain: Copernicus GLO-30, 30 m. Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. Data as of 2026-10-31.