Makani number: find your Dubai entrance address (2026)

A Makani number is Dubai’s 10-digit geographic address for a building entrance, as described by Dubai Municipality’s Makani service, checked in November 2026. You need the entrance’s number when a form asks for “Makani No.”, including DLD’s unified tenancy contract. Looking up existing Makani data is free; the app displays the number when you select the building, but the Municipality publishes no fixed lookup time in the sources linked here. Open Makani below, find your building and select its entrance.

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Makani

Dubai Municipality’s official geographic address service.

What is a Makani number?

Makani identifies a physical entrance. It does not identify your tenancy, your electricity account or your individual apartment.

Dubai Municipality describes the system as numbers that locate building entrances. Its official app description, read on 13 November 2026, specifies 10 digits and shows them in two groups of five. A building can have more than one mapped entrance, so the entrance matters as well as the building name.

This is particularly useful when you know the tower but not which side to approach. The map’s building outline and entrance markers give you a location to compare with the entrance you intend to use. A saved number for another entrance may still point to the same building.

The distinctions also matter on paperwork. The Dubai Land Department’s unified tenancy contract, available as of November 2026, gives these identifiers separate fields:

These are separate pieces of the address, not alternative spellings of the same number. In particular, copying Makani into the DEWA field would put the entrance address where the utility identifier belongs.

Who needs it, and which forms ask for it?

Tenants completing the unified tenancy contract and owners completing DLD’s lease brokerage agreement encounter a specific Makani field. Residents and visitors can also use the number simply to locate an entrance.

The table distinguishes an actual field on a published form from an everyday use of the map. Sources were read on 13 November 2026.

A Makani field on a form does not by itself establish that every government application requires it. The field label and that service’s requirements determine which identifier is being requested.

Ejari, the DLD system for registering tenancy contracts, is a separate part of setting up a rental. The unified tenancy contract explainer covers the wider document.

What does a Makani number lookup cost?

Access to existing Makani data is free, according to Dubai Municipality’s Open Data for Makani page, read on 13 November 2026.

The free-data statement is not a price quotation for manufacturing or replacing a physical plate. Dubai Municipality lists new-number and plate requests as separate services. Their overview does not give a fee schedule or completion time.

How do you get your Makani number?

For an existing building, you retrieve its address from the map or its Makani plate. You are finding a location already recorded in the system.

The following route follows Dubai Municipality’s published Makani app features, checked in November 2026. These are lookup actions, with no document-upload requirement described and no fixed step timings published.

Find the entrance and copy its number

1. Open Makani and locate the building

   Open the official Makani website linked above or the Municipality’s Makani app. Use the map to locate the building; the app also supports searches for places. You need enough address information to recognise the location, rather than identity documents. Existing location data are free to access. Time depends on locating the correct building.

2. Select the building and its entrance

   On the app’s normal or satellite map, select the building to display its outline and main entrance markers. Match the entrance to the one you need. No additional documents or separate selection fee are described; the number is displayed as part of the map result.

3. Copy the number into the matching field

   Copy the full number associated with that entrance into the form’s Makani field. Keep the property and DEWA identifiers in their own fields. This is a transcription step, with no separate application, document submission or processing time.

If you are beside a Makani plate, the app can read its QR code and retrieve the associated information. If you already have a number, searching for it lets you compare the result with the intended location.

How to find a Makani number from a plot number

The official app lists Advanced Search using land number as a supported feature. This is the route for someone starting with a land identifier rather than a building name. The land number is the search input; the Makani number is part of the location result. They remain separate identifiers.

What documents do you need?

The Municipality’s published map-search instructions describe location inputs, not an application supported by identity or ownership documents.

For an ordinary lookup, the useful information is:

• The building’s location on the map.
• Address details that help identify the right place.
• The land number, if using Advanced Search.
• An existing Makani number or the plate’s QR code, if checking a known location.

That list concerns finding an existing address. It does not describe the requirements for issuing a new number or installing a plate.

Likewise, looking up Makani does not complete the tenancy paperwork. DLD’s unified tenancy contract PDF lists the original unified tenancy contract and the applicant’s original Emirates ID as attachments for Ejari registration, as available in November 2026. Those belong to the registration process, not to reading a map.

After you have it: moving, corrections and plates

Makani describes the entrance’s location, so moving home means finding the entrance address of the new home. A saved address in the app is not a tenancy record.

The Municipality’s linked Makani information does not list a resident’s annual renewal or cancellation process, or corresponding fees. That is different from renewing or ending a tenancy. There is no published basis here for adding a Makani renewal charge to your moving costs.

For a missing number or damaged plate, Dubai Municipality’s service overview lists requests to issue a number for a plot and to install or replace a plate. The Municipality’s contact information gives 800 900 as its call centre, checked on 13 November 2026. It is the contact for confirming the appropriate request, its documents, fee and timing.

Makani number questions

The main distinction is between locating an entrance and identifying a particular home or utility premises.

Makani lookup and address questions

Can I check a Makani number online for free?

Yes. Dubai Municipality makes existing Makani data available free of charge, as stated on its Open Data for Makani page, read in November 2026. The official service linked at the top is Makani.

Where can I find the DEWA premise number?

DEWA says its 9-digit premises number is displayed on the door of each premises. That is the wording in its Move-in FAQs, read on 13 November 2026. It is distinct from the Makani entrance address and the DEWA account number.

How do I know my villa number?

For a rental form’s property-number field, the villa’s property identifier is separate from its Makani address. DLD’s unified tenancy contract records “Property No.” separately from “Makani No.”; the landlord or property manager can clarify which villa the contract identifies. Selecting the villa’s entrance in Makani gives its geographic address, not a substitute for every number on the contract.

Is there a Makani number in Abu Dhabi?

Abu Dhabi’s official address system is Onwani, whose Department of Municipalities and Transport page lists building number, street, city, area and postal code as its address components, checked in November 2026.

Does Makani cover Sharjah?

Sharjah is not among the emirates listed in Dubai Municipality’s Makani app description, read in November 2026; that list names Dubai, Ajman, Umm Al Quwain, Fujairah and Ras Al Khaimah.