Changelog

Enter what you used last month and see the bill at the August 2026 rates, with the band you land in and how close you are to the next one. EgyptERA has not republished its own tariff table since the increase, so this uses the table now printed identically by three independent outlets, stated plainly on the page.

The swimming page listed the free beaches as "Abtal al-Tahaddi and Gomrok". That was wrong, and wrong in the way that costs somebody a trip: Gomrok is the district Abtal al-Tahaddi stands in, not a second free beach. There are two free beaches, and the other one is **Hanoville al-Aam, in Agami** — free entry, and free chairs, umbrellas, toilets and changing rooms, the same as Abtal al-Tahaddi. Watch the name: the beach called simply Hanoville is a different beach in the same district and is in the 10 EGP band. The page had that one down as a price that "moved during the season", which was the same confusion seen from the other side. The rest of the grading is now spelled out rather than summarised — 5 EGP at a general beach, 10 where a chair and umbrella are brought to you (or 5 with your own), 15 or 20 at a beach graded distinguished, 25 or 30 at one graded tourist — with the named beaches in each band. The administration held 2026 prices at last year's. Checked against Masrawy on 11 July 2026 and Al-Ahram Gate on 7 April 2026, both quoting the head of the Tourism and Resorts Administration. Neither names all 43 beaches, so this is the grading, not a full list — ask at the gate. Nothing about the flags has changed, and nothing about them will: this page never shows a flag colour. The flag on the pole is the only word on whether you may swim.

Alexandria's numbers were all on this site already, and that was the problem: 114 and 175 were on the flooding board, 123 and 122 were on the swimming page, and there was nothing anywhere for drinking water or electricity. You had to already be on the right page to find the right number. They are now on one page, grouped by what has gone wrong rather than by which body owns it, and every one of them is a tap on a phone. Two things on it are worth knowing before you need them. **A flooded street is 175, not 125.** Drinking water and sewage are separate companies here, and the hotlines are easy to swap: 125 is Alexandria Water — no supply, weak pressure, a burst main. 175 is the sewerage company, ASDCO — a blocked gully, a surcharging manhole, a street that will not drain. A cover missing under standing water is a 175 call, and it is how people drown in a flooded street. **And 123 has failed here.** It is the national ambulance number and it is still the one to call, but on 31 March 2026 it went down, and Alexandria's Health Directorate published two direct lines for the governorate — 03 3925810 and 03 3923028 — along with 137 for asking which hospital has an intensive-care bed or an incubator free. Those are on the ambulance card, rather than in a news archive nobody will search at two in the morning. The governorate's operations room is 114 from a landline, or any of 03 4234131 to 03 4234137 from a mobile — all seven reach the same room, all day, every day. Checking these turned up ASDCO's own site, which is the first Alexandria-specific official body we have been able to load. The flooding board now points at it, with its head office and hours, instead of at the national holding company.

Alexandria's drainage figures are published every winter — 32,000 gullies, 66 sea outfalls, 155 suction tankers on standby. The one thing nobody publishes is which streets are actually under water, and that is the thing you need before you set off. So there is now a board where neighbours say. Five spots drawn from coverage of past storms: Abu Qir Street and Freedom Road, Smouha with the Cleopatra and Ibrahimia bridges, the Al-Mandara tunnel, the Corniche, and El Raml and Sporting around the Children's Hospital. Tap one to say whether it is dry, whether the water is rising, or whether it is flooded. Reading takes no account; reporting needs one. Reports fade after twelve hours, so the board keeps itself current. Being on the list does not mean a street is flooded now — only a report says that. Almost all of Alexandria's rain falls between October and March, so the board will be quiet until the first nawwa. It is here before it, not after. The page also carries the numbers, which are easy to mix up: 114 for the governorate operations room, 175 for sewerage, 125 for drinking water.

Alexandria's page now opens with a drawing of the Corniche curving around the Eastern Harbour during a nawwa, waves breaking over the seawall below the apartment blocks.

The nawwāt — the named winter storms — are on the dates the Alexandria Port Authority itself publishes, read from its Arabic table, as an almanac of when a storm is due rather than a forecast that one will arrive. Swimming conditions carry today's measured sea and explain the beach flag system, including that a red flag means entering the water is forbidden outright; they never show a flag colour, because status is announced daily by the governorate and there is no feed for it — the flag on the pole at the beach is the authority. There is also a page on the Raml tram closure and its replacement buses, and prayer times on Egypt's official angles.