Location and Drive Times

Wadeem Gardens is at the eastern end of Hudayriyat Island, Abu Dhabi. Modon gives 15 minutes to Zayed International Airport and 20 to the Corniche. Over the roads mapped on Nov 12, 2026, Vi.ki's own routing gives 38 km and about 50 minutes to the airport, so Modon's times depend on a tunnel that has no published opening date.

Wadeem Gardens occupies the eastern tip of Hudayriyat Island, the 51 million sq m island Modon is building out south of Abu Dhabi Island. On Modon's location map, read on Nov 12, 2026, it lies directly east of an area marked "Wadeem Villas", across a channel from Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, with a link labeled "Tunnel" drawn from its eastern edge toward the mainland.

Modon's times against the mapped roads

Modon's map and launch release give five drive times. We routed the same trips on OpenStreetMap's road data with its OSRM car router on Nov 12, 2026. The start is the mapped road nearest to the project's pin on Homes.me, about 600 m from it; the router ignores traffic. The straight-line column is our own measurement between the same points.

Destination	Modon says	Straight line	Mapped route	Router's time
Zayed International Airport	15 min	about 22 km	38.4 km	about 50 min
Abu Dhabi Corniche	about 20 min	about 14 km	38.7 km	about 44 min
Abu Dhabi Global Market	20 min	about 13 km	38.4 km	about 45 min
Louvre Abu Dhabi	23 min	about 16 km	43.8 km	about 51 min
Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque	not given	about 5 km	23.3 km	about 34 min
Disneyland (on Modon's map)	25 min	not measured	not routed

You can repeat the airport trip on OpenStreetMap's directions page.

Every mapped route is roundabout: 38.7 km of road to reach a Corniche that is about 14 km away, and 23.3 km to a mosque about 5 km away. A router's minutes on half-built roads are rough, so the distances are the figures to trust. They show that the roads serving this end of the island today are not the roads Modon's times assume.

Fifteen minutes to an airport 22 km away in a straight line means averaging close to 90 km/h door to door. We think that is only possible on the direct link Modon's map labels "Tunnel", and Modon's material gives no opening date for it. So we read the 15 and 20 minutes as figures for the finished district, not for a visit this year. Drive it yourself from the sales center before relying on them.

Roads that are planned

Abu Dhabi's Department of Municipalities and Transport has shown a planned coastal route of 37 km, three lanes each way, linking Hudayriyat Island to the E11 highway at Al Nouf with one tunnel, 7 km of marine bridges and 4 km of causeways. The announcement gives it no completion date, and does not say whether its tunnel is the one on Modon's map.

Modon's island page promises a 10-minute drive to the city center by a "dedicated suspension bridge", a figure for the island as a whole.

Render of a paved walk beside a road and cycle lane, leading toward a round building Modon

Inside the island

0:19 Modon's film looks straight down on a car rounding a bend between villa roofs and a tree. Within the community the plan relies on walking: Modon's FAQ says the villas "are not directly located on the waterfront" but that promenades are "within walking distance of every home".

Modon's map places the island's other communities, Nawayef, Bashayer and Al Naseem, in a cluster to the west, around the island's center. Wadeem Gardens is the farthest of them from that cluster and the nearest to the tunnel.

We think this is the most important page to check before buying here. A villa at the eastern tip is the best-placed home on the island if the tunnel opens on time and among the worst-placed if it is late, and nothing published today says which.